12 Dec 2014

Moscow scraps Eye of Sauron after backlash

From Morning Report, 8:24 am on 12 December 2014

Moscow had planned to celebrate the final instalment of Peter Jackson's film adaptation of The Hobbit, by putting an Eye of Sauron-style light on top of a skyscraper. But now, that plan has been scrapped after protests from the Russian Orthodox Church.

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