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Article: RUSSIA: A MONUMENT FOR THE TSAR-LIBERATOR.(Brief Article)
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- IPR Strategic Business Information Database
- Article date:
- July 29, 2002
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The first meeting of a working group to develop a monument in Moscow to Tsar Aleksandr II met on 25 July under the leadership of Mayor Yurii Luzhkov, "Kommersant-Daily" reported the next day. Last week, Luzhkov signed an order authorizing the erection of the monument near the Kremlin wall and creating the working group. The idea to erect the monument was first put forward by the Union of Rightist Forces (SPS) in February 2001, and SPS ...