Japan’s foreign minister said a dispute with Russia over a string of islands could be solved by splitting the total land area in half, the Associated Press news agency reports.
Popularity: 2% [?]
December 14, 2006
Amnesty International on Thursday urged Estonia to ease contentious language and citizenship laws that it said have alienated the Russian-speaking minority in the Baltic country.
Popularity: 2% [?]
December 7, 2006
Members of a Hasidic Jewish movement may sue the Russian government in an effort to recover 18th-century religious writings and prayers seized by the Nazi and Soviet armies, the Associated Press reports.
Popularity: 4% [?]
December 6, 2006Russia marks this Tuesday the 65th anniversary since the start of the counteroffensive in the Battle of Moscow.
Popularity: 2% [?]
December 5, 2006Russia is indignant about “blasphemous†moves by Estonia to criminalize displays of Soviet symbols in public, the AFP news agency reported quoting the Russian Foreign Ministry release.
Popularity: 2% [?]
December 4, 2006A racing car commissioned by Adolf Hitler is expected to become the most expensive car ever sold at auction, Ananova.com reports.
Popularity: 9% [?]
December 1, 2006Russia’s army museum said Thursday that Soviet medals withdrawn from a Sotheby’s auction in London could have been stolen from the museum.
Popularity: 2% [?]
November 23, 2006The United States and the United Kingdom treated the entrance of Soviet troops into the Baltic states in the 1940s with understanding and viewed this step as an unpleasant but necessary measure to oppose Nazi Germany’s aggression.
Popularity: 3% [?]
Chechen surgeon Khassan Baiev, who treated many Chechens and Russians in the conflict between Russia and Chechnya, is visiting Japan for the first time to give lectures across the country on the suffering of children in the hostilities.
Popularity: 2% [?]
November 21, 2006The British trading house Sotheby’s has received a request to withdraw from an upcoming auction state orders of the former Soviet Union, a Sotheby’s spokesperson told ITAR-TASS.
Popularity: 1% [?]
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