Belarus Unveils Memorial to KGB Founder Dzerzhinsky
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Belarus president Alexander Lukashenko, criticized in the West for his authoritarian tendencies, presented the public with a new memorial to Soviet secret police founder Felix Dzerzhinsky at a ceremony in the ...
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Russian Orthodox Patriarch Alexy II on Thursday led pomp-filled burial ceremonies for Czarina Maria Feodorovna, the Danish-born empress whose remains are to be interred in her adopted land 78 years after her death.
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Ex-Soviet Belarus agreed to join forces with Russia in opposing U.S. plans for a missile shield in Europe on Friday after the Kremlin patched up differences with its strategic ally by promising cheap gas next year.
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MINSK, October 21. (RIA Novosti s Larisa Sayenko) All Russians who come to the Belarussian capital are amazed by the flood of propaganda, which on all the three state-owned TV channels praises the country s ...
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BESLAN, Russia - A numb Russia observed the first national day of mourning for the hundreds of victims of the terrorist school seizure on Monday, while desperate families searched for the missing and foreign planes delivered medical supplies to this grief-stricken southern region neighboring Chechnya.    In Beslan, townspeople crowded around the coffins of children, parents, grandparents and teachers ahead of the 120 burials scheduled in the town cemetery and adjoining fields...
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Milan central railway station's notorious Platform 21, which witnessed the deportation of hundreds of Jews in 1943-45, will host the city's first Holocaust memorial, local authorities said.
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The remains of French soldiers killed as Napoleon's army retreated from Russia in 1812 are buried in Belarus.
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The Soviet Union collapsed 16 years ago, but you wouldn't know that in a Belarus dacha hamlet
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The remains of the mother of Russia's last tsar are buried in St Petersburg as Russians finally accept her as one of their own.
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Two years after a bloody hostage siege at a Moscow theater, survivors and victims' relatives on Tuesday commemorated the tragedy &#151; a precursor to the string of terrorist attacks blamed on Chechen rebels that have sent Russia reeling in recent months.
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A museum dedicated to the life of a pro-Solidarity priest tortured and murdered by Poland's communist secret police opened Saturday, ahead of the 20th anniversary of the killing.
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Galina Dzhugashvili, a granddaughter of Soviet dictator Josef Stalin whose father met a mysterious death at a Nazi camp, has died in Moscow, a hospital official said Tuesday. She was 69.
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A memorial to commemorate the victims of the London bombings is to be situated in Hyde Park.
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PARIS, October 21 (Itar-Tass) - PACE President Peter Schieder called on all member and observer states of the Council of Europe âto bring democracy to Belarus through selected sanctions against the regime and by stepping up cooperation with civil
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MOSCOW, Aug 23  - Chechens marked the birthday of their murdered leader Monday, days ahead of an election to replace him at the helm of the Caucasus republic where a five-year guerrilla war shows no signs of dying down.
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BESLAN, Russia - Trains passing a cemetery blew their horns in respect today as Russia began official mourning for the hundreds of victims of what increasingly appeared to have been a well-planned terrorist attack on a southern school.
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Milan central railway station&#39;s notorious  Platform 21, which witnessed the deportation of hundreds of  Jews in 1943-45, will host the city&#39;s first Holocaust memorial,  local authorities said.