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Patriarch with a KGB past?

Arnold Beichman Russia may have shut down access to Soviet archives but apparently there are still places where those archives are to be found, examined and made public. One of these places is...

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Reuters Today in History for March 18

LONDON (Reuters) - Here are some notable events from this date in history: 1584 - Ivan IV, first to assume the title of Tsar of Russia, died. He carried out domestic reforms and fought successful...

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Stalinist purge victims' names released

MOSCOW -- Russia's leading human rights groups released a list Wednesday of more than a million of people who fell victim to Josef Stalin's purges - an attempt to draw public attention to the Soviet...

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Russia embraces exiled church to heal Soviet past

(Reuters) 14 May 2007 MOSCOW - A branch of the Russian Orthodox church whose members fled over 80 years ago to escape Bolshevik rule will rejoin the church in Moscow this week in a milestone on...

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Iran's practical nationalism

By Dmitry Shlapentokh Iranians have recently demonstrated interest and appreciation of their country's past, including the 6th-century BC Achaemenid Empire. This topic has become extremely sensitive,...

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Ten decades that shook the world

Ninety years after the October revolution, the revisionists may crow over the failure of communism. But it's too soon to tell. Articles November 7, 2007 8:00 PM | How the mighty are fallen: a woman...

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Russia redefines democracy

On the banks of the Moscow River, facing the Kremlin, there is a long squat grey-faced apartment block known as the House on the Embankment. It has a special place in Russia's history. It was built by...

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Russia's Putin wins the other Nobel Prize

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian president Vladimir Putin has won a Nobel prize. Russian President Vladimir Putin seen in Bucharest in this April 4, 2008 file photo. (REUTERS/Mihai Barbu) Not the...

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Russian says remains of last Tsar's son identified

YEKATERINBURG, Russia - Russia said on Wednesday that charred remains found in a pit belonged to Tsar Nicholas II's only son and his daughter, exactly 90 years after the Bolsheviks shocked the world...

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Massacre of the Russian royals: Horrific last hours of a dynasty

As the light faded, a train halted in the siding near the remote railway station of Lyubinskaya on the Trans-Siberian railway line. Gunned down: The Tsar and Tsaritsa with their five children who were...

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Russia's last tsar rehabilitated

Russia's Supreme Court has ruled that the last Tsar, Nicholas II, and his family were victims of political repression and should be rehabilitated. The rehabilitation has long been demanded by the...

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The US democratic-capitalist model is on trial. No schadenfreude, please

This week the demands of American democracy clashed with those of American capitalism. And China's premier smiled As Meltdown Monday (September 29) follows Meltdown Monday (September 15), the mountain...

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Russian entrepreneur claims his rights for Kremlin’s royal treasures and...

Many Russian imposters have been attracted to the idea of pronouncing themselves the successors of a royal family or a dynasty to obtain all adequate privileges. The Romanovs continue to emerge here...

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Not all factions have been failures

By Patrick Laurence Faced with an internal rebellion by dissidents, the ANC has understandably sought comfort in the knowledge that previous offshoots from its ranks have withered and either died or...

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Moscow Diary: Rise of extremists?

The cry predates 1917, when faith and tsar were swept aside by the Bolshevik revolution, and the fatherland became a very different country. Yet these were the words which a 17-year-old reportedly...

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Russian oppostion wants Putin to go

Moscow - Opponents of Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin from across the political spectrum were holding protests Saturday calling for the government to resign amid a growing economic crisis....

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Ailing economy loosens Putin's grip on power

VLADIMIR PUTIN faces signs of a mutiny within his government that threatens to undermine his once unassailable authority in Russia. Subordinates have begun to openly defy the Russian Prime Minister,...

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Bomb damages Lenin statue in St. Petersburg

ST. PETERSBURG, Russia -- A bomb has blown a large hole in one of Russia's best-known statues of Vladimir Lenin. The blast hit the towering statue in the square outside Finland Station in St....

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Recession fires worldwide May Day rallies

BERLIN – Global Labor Day rallies attended by hundreds of thousands of people angered or worried by recession turned ugly in a host of affected countries Friday. The worst violence was seen in Turkey...

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Chavez: Next gift for Obama authored by Lenin

The Associated Press CARACAS, Venezuela - President Hugo Chavez says he has a new book for President Barack Obama: "What is to be Done?" by communist Vladimir Lenin, founder of the Soviet state....

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