Finnish city removes last publicly displayed statue of LeninHELSINKI (AP) — A city in southeastern Finland on Tuesday removed the country’s last publicly displayed statue of Russian revolutionary leader Vladimir Lenin following pressure from residents in the wake of Russia’s war in Ukraine.A group of construction workers in Kotka, a port city of 52,000 not far from the border with Russia, hoisted the statue into a truck and drove it away to a warehouse of a local museum.City museum director Kirsi Niku told Finnish public broadcaster YLE that the bronze bust was designed and constructed by Estonian sculptor Matti Varik in the late 1970s on orders from Moscow.It was presented to Kotka in 1979 as a gift from friendship city Tallinn, then the capital of the Estonian Soviet republic and now the capital of the Baltic nation of Estonia.Tourists flock to Japan after COVID restrictions liftedEx-Fed Chair Bernanke shares Nobel for bank failure researchLarge rail union rejects deal, renewing strike possibilityFed meeting minutes, consumer price index, big bank earnsFinland and Russia share a 1,340-kilometer (830-mile) land border and a complicated history."