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An American company interested in buying "Worker and Peasant," the enormous monument by Vera Mukhina, was turned down by the Russian government. Aleksander Solovyov, an official with the Department of Monument Preservation, issued a statement calling the statue "national property that may not be demolished or sold."


February 2000

Sozuz for Sale   |   Ostankino TV Tower fire   |   Russia's National Anthem   |   Consecration of Christ the Saviour Church   |   Stalin's face on new coins   |   Queen Mother Honoured   |   President Putin   |   Mir Space Station   |   Chechnya   |   Worker & Peasant Statue   |   Russian Champagne