Allowing a vote on re-erecting a statue of "Iron Felix," the father of Russia's secret service, may be more than a symbolic gesture to appease the left in times of hardship, writes Fiona Clark in Moscow.
Deutsche Welle: ‘Iron Felix’ rears his ugly head in Moscow
A crowd watches the statue of KGB founder Felix Dzerzhinsky being toppled, on Aug. 22, 1991 on Loubianskaya square in Moscow.
