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Painting of Gorbachev's visit to Armenia, capturing the mood of the crowd during the president's somber visit in the wake of the earthquake. Note the wreckage in the background.

Newspaper account of Gorbachev's visit to Armenia in the wake of the 1988 earthquake. The picture depicts his visit to Leninakan (now Gyumri), the largest city involved in the Spitak earthquake disaster.

Sasha Senderovich's NYT op-ed on the toppling of the Lenin statue in Kiev

Anti-Russian protesters in Ukraine's second-largest city, Kharkiv, topple a huge statue of Vladimir Lenin. One protester explains why.

a golden toilet installed on the pedestal vacated by the Lenin statue in Kiev

I mapped all the news search result of Silk Road Economic Belt from LexisNexis academic news database, according to the geography analyzed by SmartIndexing of the site. The two maps are those of Chinese state-owned news agencies and other…

I geocoded the Xinhua.net news archives of the Silk Road Economic Belt and 21st Century Maritime Silk Road feature page (http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/special/silkroad/, available in Chinese, English and Russian), and mapped them in ArcGIS. Note…

This is a composite map made in WorldMap projecting the location of state, church, and private gardens around the outskirts of Astrakhan' in 1774.