International Women's Day was first officially recognized in 1922 in Russia under leader Vladimir Lenin and became prominent ... first U.S. state to ban Pride flags in schools, government ...
Victoria Lomasko, a graphic artist and muralist, has spent her career documenting how authoritarianism took hold in Vladimir ...
Led by then Minister of Culture Vladimir Medinsky, who was appointed by Putin in 2012, the Russian state also began ... government-sponsored marches, and Lenin posters plastered everywhere.