Headed by military drummers and the tricolor national flag, the red Victory flag and the Flag of Armed Forces with hammer and sickle, Russian troops on Wednesday held an annual military parade on the Red Square to mark victory in World War II.
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May 9, 2007Police clashed with protesters at a Soviet war memorial in Tallinn on Thursday as authorities prepared to remove the bodies, The Associated Press reported.
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April 27, 2007Museum authorities at the Auschwitz-Birkenau Nazi death camp have closed a Russian exhibition after Moscow changed it to describe eastern European citizens as Soviet, the AFP news agency reported April 4.
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April 4, 2007Documents found in London’s National Archives reportedly show China, North Korea and the former Soviet Union may have planned an invasion of Japan.
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February 22, 2007The Estonian authorities’ attempts to legalize the dismantling of monuments to Soviet soldiers are insulting and could have an impact on Russian-Estonian relations, the Russian Foreign Ministry website said on Thursday.
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January 19, 2007
Japanese foreign minister has stated that his country was not considering solving a dispute with Russia over an island group by splitting the total area of the territory, The Associated Press reported on Friday referring to a report by Kyodo News agency.
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December 15, 2006
Moscow has protested against the distortion of history and attempts to conceal the truth regarding Nazi crimes, including the Holocaust, a spokesman for the Russian Foreign Ministry said Wednesday, the RIA-Novosti news agency reports.
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December 14, 2006
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.
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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.
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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.
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December 6, 2006
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