Answers to media questions about the monument to Alexander Baranov in Alaska
... North America installed in 1989. The resolution was adopted and included many emotional assessments. Question: could you please comment on the Sitka Assembly’s decision of July 14 to transfer the monument to Alexander Baranov, the first governor of Alaska (1747-1819), from the central square to the Sitka Historical Museum. Ambassador Antonov: We were deeply saddened by the fact that, amid the wave of desecration and demolition of monuments to historical figures that rose during the mass protests ...