Green Bridge Sculptures

The authorities are considering transferring Soviet-era sculptures removed from Vilnius' Green Bridge to the Lithuanian Art Museum, which could in turn give them for display to Grutas, a Soviet-era theme park in the southern part of the country, Culture Minister Liana Ruokytė-Jonsson said on Friday.

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The Immovable Cultural Heritage Assessment Council, part of the Department of Cultural Heritage, voted on Tuesday to recommend that Soviet-era statues, that used to stand on the Green Bridge in central Vilnius, be crossed out of the list of protected heritage.

The Culture Heritage Assessment Council plans to deliberate on whether the Soviet sculptures formerly located on Vilnius' Green Bridge should retain their legal protection.

The new chairwoman of the State Cultural Heritage Commission will look into the fate of the soviet Green Bridge sculptures that were removed from central Vilnius last summer.

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There will be more clarity about the fate of the Soviet statues which were recently removed from the Green Bridge of Vilnius in autumn, says Vilnius Mayor Remigijus Šimašius, adding that he has already received six official requests to take the statues.

Vilnius City Mayor Remigijus Šimašius has confirmed that he has indeed received requests from Sovetsk City Mayor Nikolay Voishchev and Russian Ambassador to Lithuania Alexander Udaltsov to hand over the Green Bridge statues to Russia.

Eight years ago, the Bronze Soldier of Tallinn, a memorial for WWII Soviet soldiers, was relocated from the city centre, which led to controversy and riots, also known as the Bronze night. Some were expecting similar reactions to removal of the so-called Green Bridge statues in Vilnius. But when the...

The administration of Sovetsk, a city in the Russian Kaliningrad region, has officially sent a request to the Vilnius leadership to hand over the Soviet-era sculptures removed from the Green Bridge.

Following a prolonged public debate, this week Vilnius authorities have removed four groups of Soviet-era statues that have stood on the Green Bridge since the early 1950s. What remain are four empty-looking pedestals overlooking the banks of the Neris River. People of Vilnius have already started m...

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Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė says she is glad that the Soviet-era sculptures have been removed from the Green Bridge in central Vilnius.

The removal of the controversial Soviet-era sculptures off the Green Bridge in the Lithuanian capital continued on Monday.

Works to dismantle the Soviet-era statues on the Green Bridge in Vilnius started on Sunday morning and continued through the night.

Since early Sunday, workers were toiling on the Green Bridge in Vilnius. They are taking down the Soviet-era sculptures that have been the object of some debate lately. Experts have said repeatedly that they are in appalling condition and present danger to pedestrians.

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Vilnius authorities plan to start the removal of the Soviet Green Bridge statues next week and it will take up to two week to complete the work, a spokesman for the municipality said on Thursday.

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