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  • Central Asia's tallest Lenin statue taken down

    06/08/2025 6:09:38 AM PDT · by BenLurkin · 20 replies
    BBC ^ | 06/08/2025 | Danny Aeberhard , Ian Aikman
    Kyrgyzstan has taken down a huge statue of the revolutionary Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin, which was thought to be the tallest in Central Asia. First erected when Kyrgyzstan was part of the Soviet Union, the 23m-tall monument towered over the city of Osh for 50 years before it was quietly removed this week. Photos emerged on Saturday showing the communist revolutionary - who features prominently in Soviet iconography - lying on his back on the ground, having been lowered by crane. A statement from City Hall in Osh - the landlocked nation's second-largest city after the capital, Bishkek - said...
  • Whitman to Testify Before Congress on 9/11 Air Quality

    06/25/2007 4:49:58 AM PDT · by Calpernia · 19 replies · 607+ views
    Millennium Radio New Jersey ^ | Monday, June 25, 2007 | By: Martin Di Caro
    The eyes of New Jersey's 9/11 responders will be on Washington today as former governor and EPA Administrator Christine Todd Whitman will appear before a congressional committee to testify about her then-agency's role in protecting the safety of recovery workers in lower Manhattan during the days and weeks following the World Trade Center's destruction. Whitman has been accused by some members of Congress, 9/11 recovery workers and their unions of misleading them about the levels of airborne toxins caused by the Twin Towers' collapse and for failing to ensure all recovery workers wore respirators. In fact, the chairman of the...
  • Another Russian base may be deployed in Kyrgyzstan

    05/25/2005 7:36:15 PM PDT · by Bald Eagle777 · 3 replies · 315+ views
    Interfax ^ | May 25, 2005 | Interfax
    "The question of creating a Russian military base in Osh is currently in the phase of discussion and consultations..."