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Friendship of Nations Arch

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Friendship of Nations Arch
Friendship of Nations Arch
Friendship of Nations Arch
Friendship of Nations Arch
Friendship of Nations Arch
Friendship of Nations Arch
Friendship of Nations Arch
Friendship of Nations Arch
Friendship of Nations Arch
Friendship of Nations Arch
Friendship of Nations Arch
Friendship of Nations Arch
Friendship of Nations Arch
Friendship of Nations Arch
Friendship of Nations Arch
Friendship of Nations Arch
Friendship of Nations Arch
Friendship of Nations Arch
Friendship of Nations Arch
Friendship of Nations Arch
Friendship of Nations Arch
Friendship of Nations Arch
Friendship of Nations Arch
Friendship of Nations Arch
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Khreshchatyj Park near European Square, Kiev, Ukraine

The People's Friendship Arch is a monument in Kiev, the capital of Ukraine. It was opened together with the All-Union Lenin Museum on November 7, 1982 to commemorate the 60th Anniversary of the USSR and the celebration of the 1,500th Anniversary of the Kiev city. On 20 May 2016 the Ukrainian government announced plans to dismantle the arch as part of its decommunization laws. In its place is planned a memorial dedicated to veterans of the War in Donbass. Director of the Ukrainian Institute of National Remembrance Volodymyr Viatrovych stated in February 2018 that a sculptural group of the monument should be removed according to the decommunization laws.For the Eurovision Song Contest 2017, the arch was temporarily painted into a rainbow and renamed the Arch of Diversity; with the arch doubling as the symbol of the Kyiv Pride parade. At night, the arch illuminates as a rainbow as well. Three weeks later everything was turned back to normal.
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