Soviet Secret Police Monument Opened
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Belarus' authoritarian president opened a memorial to the founder of the Soviet secret police Thursday, praising "Iron Felix" Dzerzhinsky as the sort of man Belarus could use today.
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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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Police kept the heart of the city Â and the country's busiest railway station Â under tight guard for the convention opening.
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Forgotten and broken down Soviet-era  arcade games are being restored for Moscow's newest museum,  just opened by volunteers nostalgic for childhood days spent  playing games like "Tankodrom" and "Sniper."
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Turkmen authorities opened a book-shaped school on Tuesday to mark the birthday of Saparmurat Niyazov, their late leader who cultivated a personality cult.
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ST. PETERSBURG -- Police clubbed protesters and dragged them into waiting buses yesterday in response to a defiant demonstration against the Kremlin in the heart of President Vladimir Putin's hometown.
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The communist government, as it had done in Babi Yar in Russia, had built a monument at Auschwitz that obscured what took place there for the Jews, making it a memorial to humanity in general.
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Russia's security agency said Friday that it has opened an espionage case in connection with claims made by Andrei Lugovoi, the suspect named by Britain in the radiation poisoning death of former agent Alexander Litvinenko in London last year.
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LANCOVO, Slovenia  - After digging for two hours in a chilly forest clearing, the workers had their evidence: bones and the soil-covered, blackened remnant of a shoe confirmed this was a secret mass grave from World War Two.
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Polish war crimes prosecutors have opened an investigation into the 1940 massacre in the Katyn forest of more than 21,000 Polish officers and intellectuals by the Soviet secret police, authorities said Wednesday.
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On August 20, the ceremony of opening the monument to the soldiers of 20th Estonian fascist division was conducted in village Likhula on the Day of Restoring Country"s Independence.
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Chechnya has inaugurated its latest pro-Moscow leader, Alu Alkhanov, in a ceremony kept secret to all but a few due to heightened security concerns.
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Russia is observing the second day of national mourning, with the government expecting 110,000 people to protest near the Kremlin against the terrorists who seized a school in Beslan
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Police in the Russian region of Chechnya  have new orders to open fire on anyone wearing a mask, the  local interior minister was quoted as saying Thursday.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin and Tajik President Imomali Rakhmonov dedicated the first permanent Russian military base in Tajikistan today.
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Friends of Russian ex-spy Alexander Litvinenko were holding a memorial for him at a London mosque following his death from radiation poisoning, and before his funeral, his former spokesman said.
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Thousands of Russian soldiers and Chechen police are on round-the-clock vigils. Russian forces claim to have killed dozens of separatist fighters. Chechen police have orders to open fire on anyone wearing a mask.