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| Subject: Funny: Ukrainian flag raised over famous Moscow building Wed Aug 20, 2014 11:59 pm | |
| Ukrainian activists, operating in the heart of Moscow, repainted the communist symbols atop one of the Stalin-era buildings in the Ukrainian colours of blue and yellow on Wednesday and topped it with a Ukrainian flag.
The daredevils had to manoeuvre some tricky territory atop the 32-storey structure - more than 160 metres above the ground - to reach the star, with its hammer and sickle.
The apartment building on the Kotelnicheskaya embankment is one of the seven "wedding cake" skyscrapers built around Moscow from 1938 to 1952.
A photo in a Twitter posting shows a purported worker sent to remove the flag taking a selfie in front of the flag. The Russian news site LifeNews posted a video that it says shows one of the activists parachuting from the top of the building.
http://www.smh.com.au/world/ukrainian-flag-raised-over-famous-moscow-building-20140821-106i09.html |
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