There was always a hint of one-upmanship in Russia’s vision for the planned statue of Grand Prince Vladimir that, rising 24 metres from a hilltop in Moscow, would be even taller than the monument to the very same medieval monarch that has towered over Ukraine’s capital, Kiev, for more than 160 years.
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Volodymyr the Great on the Millennium of Russia monument in Novgorod.
