Zurab Tsereteli, a prominent Georgian and Russian sculptor known for colossal, often controversial, monuments, has died at 91.

The Russian president is seeking to use the event to depict himself as a global leader despite Western efforts to isolate him and a failure to win the war in Ukraine.

After the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991 ... He designed several squares and two metro stations in central Moscow and put up a dozen massive monuments around the city. Georgian and Russian ...