The Soviet memorial at Liberation Square in Košice will undergo reconstruction, according to a contract between the city and the Municipal Greenery Administration, which manages the monument.

Hammer meets steel. But where the superiority ... Across the ice of the bay a great Russian sickle swept again & again. It hit some stumps and some stones, but it cut down a lot of grass.

Ukraine’s coat of arms will replace the hammer and sickle ahead of Ukraine's Independence Day on Aug. 24. Photo: Valentyn Ogirenko/Reuters ...

A great machine that was built in the time of the hammer and sickle. Ryvlin said he first grew to love skiing in his native Russia, where he worked as a researcher on a nuclear icebreaker.