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26.06.2008 - Tunguska Event still a mystery 100 years on
Scientists will gather in Siberia to mark the 100th anniversary of the Tunguska Event June 26-28, one of the world's most mysterious explosions which flattened 80 million trees but largely went unnoticed at the time.
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22.06.2008 - Russia commemorates the day of beginning of Great Patriotic War
Russia commemorats the beginning of the Great Patriotic War of the Soviet Union against Nazi Germany. It broke out on June 22, 1941. On June 8, 1996 the Russian president signed a decree establishing June 22 as the Day of memory and grief for the war victims.
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18.06.2008 - Glass ceiling in space
On June 16, 1963, Valentina Tereshkova became the first woman to travel to space. She spent two and a half days in orbit.
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27.05.2008 - St Petersburg marks its 305th jubilee on Tuesday
A ceremony to lay flowers at the Bronze Horseman monument to Emperor Peter the Great, the founder of the city, will mark the commencement of Tuesday's events on the occasion of the 305th anniversary of the founding of the city.
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18.05.2008 - Four Russians named to IIHF Team of the Century
Goalie Vladislav Tretyak, defenseman Vyacheslav Fetisov and forwards Valery Kharlamov and Sergei Makarov who played for the Soviet teams in the 1970s and the 1980s were voted on to the team in a poll conducted by a group of 56 experts from 16 countries.
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10.05.2008 - Great Patriotic War - the main front of World War II
Soviet Union launched Operation Bagration, a strategic offensive in Belarus with more than 2.3 million officers and men against a 800,000-strong German force. Total Soviet losses in this operation were 765,000 officers and men, including 178,000 dead. Total German losses were more than 400,000, including about 300,000 dead.
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26.04.2008 - Chernobyl victims remembered on 22nd anniversary
For the anniversary, former residents of the 30-km restricted zone surrounding the plant have been allowed to re-visit the area, where abandoned ghost towns lie almost untouched since Soviet times.
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05.03.2008 - Nuclear missile train at its final destination
In February 1983, a rail-based missile system entered trial service in the Soviet Union. Equipped with the RT-23 solid-fuel missile, the trains were able to stealthily travel more than 1,000 km (622 miles) a day, and launch missiles from any stop en route.
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05.03.2008 - Fifty-five years on, Stalin remains iconic figure
Exactly 55 years ago Joseph Stalin, the dictator who dragged the Soviet Union to superpower status, passed away in mysterious circumstances at his dacha just outside Moscow.
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15.02.2008 - Lenin's embalmed corpse good for another century
The embalmed corpse of ex-Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin could remain on view in his tomb on Red Square for another 100 years, if no decision to remove it is taken,
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