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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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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Poland's president made his first visit to Russia on Monday &#151; not for a meeting with top officials but to commemorate Poles killed by the Soviet secret police in World War II, news reports said.
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Russia's president attends a memorial service for victims of Stalin's purges, 70 years after their height.
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MOSCOW  - Russians marked the anniversary of the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution on Sunday with marches, Communist rallies and protests against a parliamentary proposal to scrap what was once the most sacred Soviet holiday. Some pro-Kremlin legislators have proposed replacing the Nov. 7 holiday with a new holiday on Nov. 4 to be called National Unity Day. Russia's lower house of parliament, the State Duma, is expected to consider the measure Wednesday in the first of three required votes.
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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 Kremlin reorganized its local security services on Thursday in the region where hundreds of people were killed last week in a school hostage-taking, the first public step
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Russian soldiers in World War II-style uniforms slogged through early winter slush Tuesday to re-enact the Soviet Union's defeat of Adolf Hitler's armies in the Battle of Moscow near the Russian capital 63 years ago.
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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.
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MOSCOW, November 7 (RIA Novosti) - Communists and other Left-wing opposition forces rallied on Theater Square, in Moscow&#39;s center, on the 87th Bolshevik Revolution anniversary.
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About 50,000 Muscovites, mostly young people and pensioners, gathered Sunday in the center of the capital city to mark the 87th anniversary of the October Revolution in 1917 leading to the founding of the former Soviet Union.
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A war on Soviet-era monuments is continuing in Estonia. A monument at a site of execution of 26 Red Army fighters in 1919 was vandalised in the town Katela in Estonia.
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Russia's president puts Moscow's interests first as he starts his China visit to discuss key oil projects.
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ST PETERSBURG, Russia  - A plan by Russian gas giant Gazprom to build a skyscraper in historic St Petersburg is an object lesson in how power and influence work in Vladimir Putin's Russia.
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The first Moscow Biennale, a monthlong festival intended to establish the city as an contemporary art center, has opened at the old Lenin Museum.
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President Lech Kaczynski signaled  on Monday he wanted a fresh start in Poland&#39;s strained  relations with Moscow when he visited the Russian forest where  thousands of Polish officers were executed in 1940.
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Moscow city authorities plan to reduce the number of migrants working in the Russian capital.