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20.05.2007 - Russian Orthodox Church reunited: Why only now?
The Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) and the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia (ROCOR) have signed the Act of Canonical Communion in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior in Moscow.
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09.05.2007 - Historian points out evidence Stalin's elder son was not in Nazi camps
Russian and foreign archives, including the private archive of Stalin's family, contain tentative evidence to a version of life story of Stalin's elder son Jacob Dzhugashvili, which suggests that the man never was in Nazi captivity, claims the Russian Doctor of History Sergei Devyatov.
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07.05.2007 - Presidential Regiment marks 71st birthday
The regiment was born in 1936, and got its name Presidential Regiment in 1993. It makes part of the Federal Guard Service and is subordinated directly to the president, who is supreme commander-in-chief.
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05.05.2007 - 103,000 servicemen were executed during Patriotic War
As many as 147 thousand servicemen were sentenced to death by firing squad during the Great Patriotic War for stealing a can of meat or for high treason.
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26.03.2007 - The first Soyuz mission
April 23, 1967 marks the date when the world-famous Soyuz spacecraft lifted off for the first time with a human aboard. And March 16 of this year might have been the 80th birthday of Vladimir Komarov, the Soviet cosmonaut who died tragically on board that craft.
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18.03.2007 - Bells for Harvard University to be made by Russian foundry
The work will allow to return to Russia the bells of Moscow's St. Daniel Monastery, which were brought to America in the 1930s. The bells were sold to an industrialist after the monastery was closed. They were placed on the specially built tower at the university dormitory.
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08.02.2007 - Roosevelt Russia's ideological ally
A senior aid to the Russian president delivered a speech to commemorate President Franklin D. Roosevelt on the 125th anniversary of his birth, drawing parallels to the Kremlin's domestic policies.
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13.01.2007 - Remains of White army general Kappel buried in Moscow monastery
The remains of general Kappel who died in the ranks of the White Army in 1920 were buried in the Don Monastery in Moscow on Saturday.
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11.01.2007 - Estonian president approves Soviet memorial demolition law
Estonia's State Assembly passed the bill on a first reading in November 2006, paving the way for the dismantling of monuments to Soviet soldiers who died liberating the Baltic state from German invaders during the Second World War,
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10.01.2007 - Russian Archaeologists Discover Remains of Ancient Chieftain in Altai Permafrost
Russian archaeologists have uncovered the 2000-year-old remains of a warrior preserved intact in permafrost in the Altai mountains region, the Rossiiskaya Gazeta daily reported.
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