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By Anna MALPAS Lviv (Ukraine) (AFP) - A Lviv, grande ville de l'ouest de l'Ukraine, une statue de la première femme à être allée dans l'espace, Valentina Terechkova, gît au sol, son casque éclaboussé de peinture rouge. La région, à la frontière avec l'Union européenne, avait été la première en Ukraine à déboulonner ses monuments soviétiques, sous l'impulsion d'un mouvement national visant à effacer tout vestige du pouvoir de Moscou dans cette ancienne république de l'URSS. Mais une fois mis à terre, qu'en faire? La question est particulièrement complexe depuis l'invasion russe de février 2022,...
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New York (AFP) - New York City lawmakers have voted to remove a statue of Thomas Jefferson, one of the United States' founding fathers, from the council chambers because of his slave-owning past. The move comes amid fierce debate in the United States, following last year's widespread racial justice protests, over what to do with monuments deemed offensive to minority groups. Many activists say statues of some historical figures are symbols of systemic racism. Historians tend to argue that the figures themselves were complex and shouldn't be airbrushed from America's history. Latino and Black c...
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Washington (AFP) - President Joe Biden on Friday restored environmental protections for two wild Utah expanses linked to America's indigenous history, and also a biodiverse area of the Atlantic, reversing his predecessor Donald Trump's move to open the national monuments to mining and fishing. Biden signed the proclamations at a ceremony on the North Lawn at the White House, restoring the full size and status at Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante monuments in Utah, as well as the Northeast Canyons and Seamounts area off the east coast. "After the last administration chipped away their pr...
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Richmond (United States) (AFP) - A towering statue of a Confederate general that became a focal point of protests for racial justice was removed Wednesday in Richmond, the Virginia city that served as the capital of the pro-slavery South during the American Civil War. The bronze statue of General Robert E. Lee, who commanded the Army of Northern Virginia during the bloody 1861-65 conflict, was lifted off its 40-foot (12-meter) granite pedestal as hundreds of onlookers cheered under tight security. "Hey, hey, goodbye," the crowd chanted as the 21-foot-tall statue was slowly lowered to the groun...
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Richmond (United States) (AFP) - A statue of a Confederate general that became the focus of US protests for racial justice was removed Wednesday in Richmond, the Virginia city that served as capital of the pro-slavery South during the Civil War. The statue of General Robert E. Lee, who commanded the Army of Northern Virginia during the bloody 1861-65 conflict, was lifted off its 40-foot (12-meter) granite pedestal by a crane to be carted away on a flatbed truck as a crowd of hundreds cheered under tight security. Erected in 1890, the imposing figure of Lee mounted on a horse dominated Richmond...
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