Moscow Plans First Stalin Monument Since 1960s
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Moscow plans to erect a new statue of  Soviet dictator Josef Stalin, returning his once-ubiquitous  image to its streets after an absence of four decades, a top  city official said Wednesday.
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Moscow's Bolshoi Theatre will reopen  after restoration in November 2009, a year behind schedule,  after emergency work to save it from collapse, officials said  on Thursday.
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President Vladimir Putin of Russia has invited his Latvian and Estonian counterparts to come to Moscow for celebrations of the 60th anniversary of the victory over Nazi Germany in the Second World War.
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The most infamous political prison from Argentina's 1976-1983 dirty war opens to the public next month as a human rights memorial, one of the first of its kind in Latin America.
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Iraqi Premier Iyad Allawi arrives Monday in Russia for the first time since taking office six months ago with hopes of ending the row over Moscow&#39;s oil contracts with Saddam Hussein&#39;s regime.
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Moscow has promised tight security, more than a dozen new sports facilities, mid-range hotel rooms and improvements in the city&#39;s smog-belching traffic if it hosts the 2012 Olympic Games.
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Latvian President Vaira Vike-Freiberga says she will attend celebrations in Moscow marking the 60th anniversary of the end of the World War II.
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A Moscow gallery is inviting members of the public to vote on one of five proposed monuments to late president Boris Yeltsin unveiled on Tuesday.
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A monument dedicated to the Beatles will be erected in Hamburg, Germany, where the band launched their international career.
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World leaders including the Russian, German and French presidents will gather in Poland later this month to mark the 60th anniversary of the liberation of the biggest Nazi death camp Auschwitz, the government ...
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President Vladimir Putin warned Tuesday against political ideas that are "placed above basic values" as he for the first time joined public commemorations on the 70th anniversary of mass killings ordered by Soviet dictator Josef Stalin.
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ROME  - The Vatican returned a Russian icon venerated by Pope John Paul to Moscow on Friday in a gesture aimed at improving strained relations with the Russian Orthodox Church and possibly clearing the way for a visit by the ailing pontiff.
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The Russian defence minister raises the idea of basing new missiles close to Poland and Lithuania.
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NORTHEASTERN STATION, Russia  - When Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev died and the Communist propaganda machine organized a mass outpouring of grief, Sergei Zimov hardly noticed.
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DAVID HARDAKER: In Soviet times, it was a long-held tradition to immortalise leaders by renaming streets and major cities after them.
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Nuclear power as an energy source makes its first appearance in Obninsk, and a model Soviet science city is born.
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IRAQ&#39;S Prime Minister Iyad Allawi arrived in Moscow today for the first time since taking office six months ago with hopes of soothing tensions over Russia&#39;s opposition to the US-led war in his ravaged nation, Interfax reported.