Photo credit: commons.wikimedia.org The United States is too dismissive of the Soviet Union's contribution to the victory over fascism, Oliver Stone is sure. According to the famous cinematographer, it is not clear why his compatriots have a negative attitude towards Russia. Oliver Stone...
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Residents of Finland turned to the Tver region for help in finding the relatives of the Soviet soldier.
They urge everyone who knows something about the fate of...
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A photo exhibition timed to coincide with the anniversary of the victory in the Great Patriotic War began to work in Nanjing, China, TASS reports. It tells about the role of the Soviet Union in the fight against Nazi Germany and the Chinese people's war against...
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The unveiling of a memorial sign dedicated to the memory of Soviet prisoners of war took place in Bremen. The initiative to install the sign came from the Denkorte Neustadt ("Memorable places of Neustadt")...
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A monument to the legendary Soviet military leader Georgy Zhukov has appeared in Montenegro, TASS reports. It was installed in the city of Berane, located in the north of the country. The opening ceremony was timed to the Day...
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50 copies of the Memories of Veterans book, donated by the Canadian Association of World War II Veterans from the USSR, will be distributed among the war veterans and the siege survivors living in Canada, the press service of organizations of Russian...
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The results of the memory action dedicated to the Day of the Unknown Soldier were summed up in Bialystok, Poland. It was organized and conducted by members of the Russian Cultural and Educational Society. This was reported on the society's page on Facebook. The...
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The "From Field Marshal Suvorov to Tsar Alexander I" conference took place this weekend in Verona. The organizers of the large-scale event were the Russian House Association and the Veneto - Russia Cultural Association.
The meeting opened with a speech by Dmitry Shtodin, head of the Russian Consulate General in Milan. He...
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The unique banner, captured from Soviet soldiers during the Great Patriotic War, returned from Germany to Russia. It was bought at an online auction by Russian search teams, RIA Novosti...
Articles about more than 100 veterans of the Great Patriotic War and home front workers were included in the new collection "Immortal Regiment in Slovenia". The publication includes stories of the heroes' descendants living in Slovenia. The collection was published with the support of the Russian Embassy in...
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The renovation work, which is being carried out at the Soviet Field of Glory memorial complex in the Netherlands, is nearing completion. Last year, tombstones began to be replaced there, TASS reports.
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290 years since the birth of the great Russian commander, Generalissimo Alexander Suvorov, will be celebrated on November 24. He went down in Russian and world history as a...
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The centenary of the Russian Exodus was celebrated in Turkey, RIA Novosti reports. The commemorative ceremony took place in Gelibolu, located in the Canakkale province. It was there that those who were forced to leave Russia in the fall of 1920 on the last...
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The Estonian Fleet Veterans Club handed over the St. Andrew's flag to the Dome Church of Tallinn, where the outstanding Russian navigator Ivan Kruzenshtern is buried. The admiral, who has made a great contribution...
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The Garden of Memory campaign continued in Hungary, the Rossotrudnichestvo website reports. Five lime trees were planted in the park near the monument to Soviet soldiers-liberators in the city of Paks.
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The action in memory of the Soviet soldiers who fell during the capture of Berlin in 1945 took place on the territory of the memorial complex in the Berlin district of Pankow, where the remains of more than 13,000 Red Army soldiers are buried. The action took place...
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Five commemorative plaques appeared this year on the graves of Russian participants in the First World War as part of the Australian Army. Placards with inscriptions in Russian and English were installed on the graves of Russians at the Rookwood cemetery...
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The Linguistics Forum 2021: Language Policy and Language Preservation was held at the Institute of Linguistic Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow. How to preserve Russia's linguistic diversity amid the global decline in the number of languages? Director of the Institute of Linguistic Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences and linguist Andrej Kibrik has the answer. 
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The head of The Soviet War Cemetery Foundation from the Netherlands Remco Reiding has been taken care of the war memorial near Leusden and Amersfoort for more than twenty-five years. There are 865 Soviet prisoners of war and victims of Nazi concentration camps buried in the Rusthof Memorial Cemetery. More than 700 of them are still considered to be missing. 
The biker movement emerged in the mid-20th century in Western countries. Its members sometimes interpreted the laws and rules quite freely. To this day, columns of motorcyclists in leather jackets cause puzzlement among police, drivers, and pedestrians. Russian-speaking bikers who open clubs and join associations in different countries around the world make efforts to change this attitude toward people on motorcycles. They take care of the Soviet soldiers graves, hold motorcycle rallies to commemorate war memorials, and help the authorities in keeping order.