Law enforcement authorities in Chelyabinsk checks data about what a bust of Lenin in the centre painted in yellow and blue colors of the flag of Ukraine, said Last news on the first day of the week an employee of the MIA in the region.

first of several media outlets reported that an unidentified painted the upper part of the bust of Lenin in Chelyabinsk in blue color and the bottom is yellow.

"Is checked, persons involved in the Commission of this offence," - said the Agency interlocutor. She said that the bust of Lenin was found painted on the first day of the week.

Wide resonance caused a similar incident that occurred in the last month of summer in the capital of Russia. Unidentified hung Ukrainian flag on the spire of the Stalin skyscraper on Kotelnicheskaya embankment of the capital, and painted half stars crowning the building in blue color. Now the star returned to its original form. The suspects were later caught.

Vandalism relative to the monuments of the Soviet era have become more frequent in Ukraine since the beginning of the political fall in the country. The most noticeable was the incident of December 1, 2013, when the radicals dropped from the pedestal of the statue of Lenin in Central Kiev. Just vandals demolished more than five hundred monuments to Lenin in Ukraine, and about 1, 7 thousand survived.

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