The mayor of Moscow, Sergei Sobyanin, said on Feb. 26 he was scrapping a plan to build a new statue in one of the city’s central squares after a poll failed to give a clear decision on who should be honored.
Deutsche Welle: Moscow mayor scraps vote on statue for Soviet secret police chief
Law enforcement officers stand guard in front of a monument to Soviet Marshal Georgy Zhukov outside Red Square in Moscow on Feb. 2, 2021.
