Speculation is rife a monument to Feliks Dzerzhinsky, the founder of the feared Cheka secret police, may soon return to central Moscow. City authorities are pushing ahead with plans to repair a statue of Dzerzhinsky that was pulled down by pro-democracy protesters in 1991. Previous attempts to restore the statue to its place on Moscow's Lubyanka Square have been resisted by the public.
Could 'Feliks Dzerzhinsky' Return To Central Moscow?
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A woman walks under a Dzerzhinsky monument that was reinstalled in a courtyard of the Moscow police headquarters, in 2005.
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This picture from 1964 shows the KGB building (aka Lubyanka) in Moscow, with the monument to Soviet KGB founder Feliks Dzerzhinsky standing in front. (AFP PHOTO TASS)
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Dzerzhinsky is seen here in 1914 as a Communist revolutionary at Orlov central prison.