In 2005 in Belgorod region near the ancient undeground monastery not far from the village of Kholki the monument to Prince Svyatoslav of Kiev was built up for the 1040th anniversary of crushing defeat of the Khazar Kaganate by this ancient Russian great commander. The author of this monument is well-known Russian sculptor Vyacheslav Klykov. Befor this he created many monuments, the most well-known of them are the monument to Marshal Zhukov near the Historical Museum in Moscow, the monument to Cyrill and Mephody in the Slavyanskaya Square, Prince Vladimir in Khersonesus and others. But this monument at once provoced a whole wave of scandals all over Russia. The case is in this 13 meters monument Prince Svyatoslav is depicted on horseback and his horse is trampling under foot a khazar warrior. At first it seems there is nothing unusual in this picture. But one detail: to make clear that the prostrate warrior is a khazar and nobody else on his shield there was a big emblem of David's star. Of course the main religion (though not the single) in the Khazar Kaganate was Judaism, but the fact that the giant charger of Svyatoslav is trampling the symbol of Judaism caused a storm of protests from very many Jewish communities from all corners of Russia even before the opening of this monument. At first the local authorities planned place the monument in Belgorod, but maybe just because of this scandal they finally decided to put it in some far place but not in the city. And also some time after the shield with David's star was replaced by the new one with just a neutral picture. You can see the photo of this monument of our site in the section Our Belgorod. http://www3.webng.com/rusgenealogy/ Just click the button Our Belgorod.