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Contending that U.S. policies have a “global impact,” a Brussels newspaper editorial demands that Europeans be allowed to vote for the U.S. president. “The United States is the wealthiest nation on Earth, how dare they hoard this wealth and not share it with the less endowed peoples of the world?” the editors of De Standaard ask. The editorial reasoned that the U.S. presence in liberating the continent from Nazi tyranny and guarding against the Soviet threat for four decades after World War II made Europeans the “ipso facto” wards of the U.S. government. “The United States has robbed us of...

Chabad-Lubavitch Rabbi Avraham Wolff, chief rabbi of Odessa, Ukraine, and director of the local Jewish community, called on Ukraine President Victor Yuschenko to do more to stem the tide of anti-Semitism in the wake of an appearance by a previously unknown hate group. According to the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, the "Orthodox Public Organization of Odessa" distributed pamphlets in local Russian Orthodox churches that called for pogroms and the murder of Jews. Community spokesman Berl Kapulkin said that preliminary information pointed to the pro-Russian groups of United Fatherland and the Union of Orthodox Citizens of Ukraine as responsible for the pamphlets'...

Two days ago - On December 18th, 2007 and amazing memorial has been unveiled in my hometown Lowicz (Poland). The idea of this memorial is to commemorate the Jewish and Polish citizens of Lowicz and also the Soviet POWs - all the victims of two forced labour camps located near Lowicz during WW2. The memorial has been built of 3 blocks of basalt wrapped togehter with barbed wire. The speaker of the Polish Parliament Bronislaw Komorowski, the ambassador of Israel David Peleg and the ambassador of Russia Vladimir Grinin took part in the ceremony. The Israeli ambassador said, that the...

This rankles. The AFP photo above, taken from the BBC website, shows Soviet cartoonist Boris Efimov (sometimes transliterated Yefimov) reviewing a retrospective of his drawings in commemoration of his 107th birthday. A nostalgic occasion? It shouldn't be. Efimov was a classic Stalinist toady, at once sycophantic to the dictator and foully malevolent towards his master's enemies, who included not only the Nazis (when expedient) but the Catholic Church as well. The cartoon below, showing the Red Army soldier striking fear into the Axis leaders -- and the Pope -- was titled "Seven Dangers, One Response." That to the right...

Poland honors Katyn genocide victims at a solemn ceremony in Warsaw 12.11.2007 Over the weekend, Warsaw was the venue of a very special celebration commemorating the memory of the victims of the Katyn Forest Massacre - over 20 thousand Polish citizens murdered by the NKVD at Stalin's personal order in 1940. Eliza Mickiewicz reports 'I would like us to focus on those, whose memory was forbidden on this soil for decades - on the victims of genocide in Katyn, Miednoje, Charkow and many other places.' ...said the Polish President Lech Kaczynski opening the two-day solemn ceremony to honor the victims...

Wajda's "Katyn" shown in Moscow 28.10.2007 Polish Embassy in Moscow is again the venue of the screening of "Katyn", a movie on the Katyn Forest Massacre by Oscar winning Polish film director Andrzej Wajda. Katyn was shown there for the first time yesterday. The audience, mostly diplomats, human rights activists and artists were moved. "Poles, forgive us," said Russian human rights activist Siergiej Kovaliov after he saw the film. In 1940, over twenty two thousand Polish POWs - both military and civilian - were executed by the Soviet NKVD. The movie tells a fictional story of the victims and their...

Fr. Peszkowski, legendary Katyn genocide survivor dies at 89 08.10.2007 Father Zdzisław Peszkowski, Katyn Forest Massacre survivor and a legendary lifetime chaplain of the families of the Katyn genocide victims, passed away at the age of 89. Joanna Najfeld reports Until the last days of his life, Fr. Peszkowski fought for the truth about the 1940 Soviet mass murder of twenty thousand Polish POWs - military officers, but also civilians - professors, doctors, lawyers, clergy, higher state officials - the intellectual elite of pre-war Poland. The truth, as he often reminded, which was forbidden during the decades of communist regime...

Secrets of 1957 Sputnik launch revealed By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV, Associated Press Writer 3 minutes ago   MOSCOW - When Sputnik took off 50 years ago, the world gazed at the heavens in awe and apprehension, watching what seemed like the unveiling of a sustained Soviet effort to conquer space and score a stunning Cold War triumph. But 50 years later, it emerges that the momentous launch was far from being part of a well-planned strategy to demonstrate communist superiority over the West. Instead, the first artificial satellite in space was a spur-of-the-moment gamble driven by the dream of one...

Wajda’s Katyn Poland’s Oscar candidate Sunday, September 23. 2007 Katyn, the latest film by veteran Polish movie maker Andrzej Wajda, will be Poland’s candidate for ‘Best Foreign Film’ in next year’s Academy Awards. Katyn – which had its premier last week in Warsaw – tells the story of the massacre by over 20,000 Polish officers by the Soviet NKVD in 1940. Some of Wajda’s family were murdered during the massacre. Wajda’s latest movie was among 16 Polish films which a special committee had to chose from to send to the Academy in Los Angles for consideration for nomination in the...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's new Prime Minister Viktor Zubkov displayed a tough Soviet style of management at his first government meeting on Thursday, barking orders at underperforming ministers and calling one of them "comrade." President Vladimir Putin surprised Russians last week by appointing the little-known Zubkov, a 66-year-old former collective farm boss, to lead the government in the run-up to parliamentary and presidential elections. Zubkov, who formerly headed an anti-money laundering watchdog, was tasked by the Kremlin leader with ensuring that the cabinet "ticks like Swiss watch." Looking confident at Thursday's meeting, Zubkov made clear he would not tolerate any...

Polish leader honours massacred officers on Russia visit MOSCOW (AFP) — Poland's Lech Kaczynski on Monday made his first visit as president to Russia for highly charged commemorations for 22,500 Polish servicemen massacred by Soviet secret police in World War II. The visit to Katyn in western Russia, where many of the killings happened, took place against a backdrop of heightened tensions between Poland and Russia since Kaczynski's rise to power in December 2005. The visit took place on the anniversary of the Soviet invasion of eastern Poland in 1939, which occurred under a secret agreement between Soviet leader Joseph...

In a speech in Tipton, Iowa yesterday, Senator John Edwards described his health care program "It requires that everybody be covered. It requires that everybody get preventive care," he told a crowd sitting in lawn chairs in front of the Cedar County Courthouse. "If you are going to be in the system, you can't choose not to go to the doctor for 20 years. You have to go in and be checked and make sure that you are OK. *** Edwards said his mandatory health care plan would cover preventive, chronic and long-term health care. The plan would include mental...

THE elderly couple did not hesitate to open the door when they saw Dimitry Mukhin through their spy-hole. Mukhin, a psychiatrist who lived in the neighbouring building, had recently paid a friendly visit to ask if they needed anything. But this was no courtesy call. As Emilia Tomareva and Albert Uzikov let him into the Moscow flat where they had lived for decades, Mukhin rushed in with two men in white coats and a policeman. The shocked couple were bundled into an ambulance with their hands tied behind their backs and locked up in separate psychiatric hospital wards, even though...

Russia confirms Soviet sorties over Dimona in '67 By DAVID HOROVITZ The chief spokesman of the Russian Air Force, Col. Aleksandr V. Drobyshevsky, has confirmed in writing for the first time that it was Soviet pilots, in the USSR's most-advanced MiG-25 "Foxbat" aircraft, who flew highly-provocative sorties over Israel's nuclear facility at Dimona in May 1967, just prior to the Six Day War. Gideon Remez and Isabello Ginor, who co-wrote the recent book Foxbats over Dimona, which asserts that the Soviet Union deliberately engineered the war to create the conditions in which Israel's nuclear program could be destroyed, on Thursday...

BERLIN - Construction workers unearthed a 2,200-pound Soviet bomb from World War II in a Berlin suburb Tuesday, forcing authorities to evacuate more than 4,000 people before defusing it. The bomb, which was buried 13 feet underground, was found Tuesday morning in the Lichterfelde district on the capital's southern edge. About eight hours later, specialists defused it, removing two detonators. People in the area were evacuated from their homes as a precaution, police spokeswoman Miriam Tauchmann said. Services on a nearby commuter train line also were disrupted for several hours. Unexploded bombs, relics of Allied bombardments before Nazi Germany's surrender...

Once again, and engaging in perfect Soviet styled historical revisionism, our glorious MSM presents the "truth" of how failed Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev was really the one who "helped" the U.S. win the Cold War. AP claims Gorby brought about the fall of the Soviet Union but this "ushered in an era of U.S. imperialism," which the AP claims is responsible for "many of the world's gravest problems." So, according to the AP Gorby helped the U.S. win the Cold War, but his good deed is now the cause of all the world's ills? How losing the game can equate...

TALLINN, Estonia - Estonia on Tuesday reburied the remains of eight Soviet soldiers whose exhumation from a war grave had sparked deadly riots and infuriated neighboring Russia. The eight white caskets were lowered into new ground at the Defense Forces cemetery in a ceremony attended by Defense Minister Jaak Aaviksoo, foreign diplomats and World War II veterans. "We have fulfilled our duty and given these soldiers their final resting place," Aaviksoo said after the hour-long ceremony. He said he hoped the reburial would prevent Russia from using the war grave issue in the future "for provocations against the Republic of...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Forgotten and broken down Soviet-era arcade games are being restored for Moscow's newest museum, just opened by volunteers nostalgic for childhood days spent playing games like "Tankodrom" and "Sniper." ADVERTISEMENT Secret military factories across the Soviet Union churned out the arcade games from the late 1970s, but they were discarded in favor of shinier western imports after the collapse of communism in 1991, explain the museum's founders. While youngsters in the West played Pac-man on their first home computers, their Eastern bloc counterparts from Dresden to Vladivostok were queuing up to play the latest arcade games.

One of the great enigmas of the modern Middle East is why, forty years ago next week, the Six-Day War took place. Neither Israel nor its Arab neighbors wanted or expected a fight in June 1967; the consensus view among historians holds that the unwanted combat resulted from a sequence of accidents.Enter Isabella Ginor and Gideon Remez, a wife-husband team, to challenge the accident theory and offer a plausible explanation for the causes of the war. As suggested by the title of their book, Foxbats Over Dimona: The Soviets' Nuclear Gamble in the Six-Day War (Yale University Press), they argue...

Historians have long known that the Swedish DC3 shot down by a Soviet fighter plane in 1952 was being used to spy on military facilities on the other side of the Baltic Sea. But only now have the true aims of the covert operation been revealed. Documents recently declassified show that Sweden was prepared at the beginning of the Cold War to launch retaliatory military strikes in the event of a Soviet attack. But not all files have yet been released. According to Ingvar Åkesson, head of Sweden's National Defence Radio Establishment (Försvarets Radioanstalt - FRA), "there are structures from...

In a new book that “totally contradicts everything that has been accepted to this day” about the Six Day War, two Israeli authors claim that the conflict was deliberately engineered by the Soviet Union to create the conditions in which Israel’s nuclear program could be destroyed. Having received information about Israel’s progress towards nuclear arms, the Soviets aimed to draw Israel into a confrontation in which their counterstrike would include a joint Egyptian-Soviet bombing of the reactor at Dimona. They had also geared up for a naval landing on Israel’s beaches.

Russian statement on Soviet monuments surprising - Ukraine 16:34 | 15/ 05/ 2007 KIEV, May 15 (RIA Novosti) - Ukraine's Foreign Ministry is surprised at Russia's reaction to the situation around Soviet memorials in the western Ukrainian city of Lvov, a ministry spokesman said Tuesday. "Such close attention of the Russian side to protection of monuments and memorial signs in Ukraine is surprising, taking into account that in the Russian Federation... there are plans to remove two memorials in order to use the site for construction and a parking lot," Andrey Deshchitsa said. The Lvov city legislature decided May 10...

Poland's national conservatives prepare anti-Soviet symbols law May 15, 2007, 18:03 GMT Warsaw - Poland's governing national conservative Law and Justice Party (PiS) announced Tuesday it has tabled legislation in parliament to rid the country of communist era symbols and ban them. The move would make it easier 'to mark an end of the communist era and come to terms with an inglorious past', PiS parliamentary leader Marek Kuchcinski told reporters in Warsaw. The legislation would provide not only for streets, public squares and buildings to be renamed, but also for people to be stripped of medals, awards and diplomas...

MOSCOW, May 9 — President Vladimir V. Putin seemed to obliquely compare the foreign policy of the United States to the Third Reich in a speech on Wednesday commemorating the 62nd anniversary of the defeat of Nazi Germany. The comments were the latest in a series of sharply worded Russian criticisms of the foreign policy of the United States — on Iraq, missile defense, NATO expansion and, more broadly, United States unilateralism in foreign affairs. Many Russians say the sharper edge reflects a frustration that Russia’s views, in particular opposition to NATO expansion, have been ignored in the West. Outside...

Less than fifteen years after the last Soviet troops pulled out of the Baltic States, a new survey has shown that young Swedes are still in the dark about the fate of its neighbours behind the Iron Curtain. A poll carried out by Demoskop on behalf of the Organization for Information on Communism (Föreningen för upplysning om kommunismen - UOK) found that 90 percent of Swedes between the ages of 15 and 20 had never heard of the Gulag. This can be contrasted with the 95 percent who knew of Auschwitz. "Unfortunately we were not at all surprised by the...

Russia's ageing but revered scientific geniuses are on a collision course with Vladimir Putin after the 1,200-member Academy of Sciences rejected Kremlin proposals to end its unique independence from state control. Since it was founded by Tsar Peter I in 1724, the Academy has enjoyed immunity from government interference. Freedom to think and work unfettered has enabled 17 of its alumni since 1904 to win science's highest plaudit, the Nobel prize. Of those, 14 have been within the past 50 years and the most recent, Vitaly Ginzburg and Alexei Abrikosov, shared the prize for physics in 2003. Now, however, its...

Mother's memoir reveals sensitive Stalin Last Updated: 1:01am BST 07/05/2007 Josef Stalin, the monstrous Soviet dictator responsible for the deaths of millions, was a "sensitive child" with a love of flowers, his mother's memoirs have revealed. Keke Djugashvili: son installed her in a former Tsarist palace Stalin was born in Georgia in 1878, the only child of a cobbler, Beso Djugashvili and his wife, Keke. In her memoirs, released from a secret Soviet archive, she detailed how a series of illnesses and accidents left "Soso" - her nickname for Josef - partially crippled, and how he coped with a violent...

The Prince of Wales was a "most likeable person", President Gaddafi a "mad clown" and Michael Jackson was "surprisingly shy". The private diaries of Ronald Reagan, which are about to be published for the first time, reveal a US president who was worried about imminent Armageddon but who also fretted about how he would handle chopsticks in front of the Chinese. The man who was credited with ending the Cold War reveals that he was "lonesome" when his wife, Nancy, was away and refused to talk to their son, Ron Junior, after he hung up on him. His carefully handwritten...

Estonia denounces embassy 'siege' April 30, 2007 - 8:09PM Estonia denounced a "psycho-terror" siege at its Moscow embassy today, where it said dozens of Estonians were trapped by youths protesting over the removal of a Soviet war memorial in Tallinn. "The situation around the Estonian embassy in Moscow is psycho-terror," President Toomas Hendrik Ilves told AFP. "Nearly two dozen citizens of Estonia are in the embassy building, as if taken hostage. Other citizens of Estonia are blocked from entering the embassy." Estonian Foreign Minister Urmas Paet said his country would press the European Union, of which it is a member,...

Estonia unearths Soviet war dead The Estonian authorities say they have found the coffins of 12 Soviet soldiers buried at a controversial war memorial, amid a continuing row with Russia. Estonia's decision to remove the statue of a Red Army soldier sparked riots last week. One Russian died and 153 were injured in the unrest. Protesters are now blockading Estonia's Moscow embassy, according to officials. Estonians say the soldier symbolised Soviet occupation. Russians say it is a tribute to those who fought the Nazis. It has now been relocated to a military cemetery, away from the centre of the capital...

Estonia puts Soviet memorial in new spot By JARI TANNER, Associated Press Writer Mon Apr 30, 11:32 AM ET TALLINN, Estonia - A statue commemorating Soviet soldiers killed during World War II was erected at a new location Monday, three days after its removal from a downtown square in Estonia's capital provoked riots by ethnic Russians. The Bronze Soldier is now open for public viewing at the Defense Forces Cemetery, Defense Ministry spokeswoman Aet Kukk said. Police clashed over three nights with Russian-speaking Estonians angered by the decision to move the statue and a nearby war grave. One man was...

Poland to remove communist memorials WARSAW, Poland, April 30 (UPI) -- Poland's culture minister said symbols of the communist dictatorship will be removed from the streets all over the country, Polish media reported Monday. Following a move taken by Estonia, Polish Culture Minister Kazimierz Ujazdowski said a new law that will make it easier for local authorities to remove both Soviet memorials and Polish communist symbols will go into effect May 15, the Serbian news agency Beta reported. During the weekend, the Polish government supported Estonia in its dispute with Russia over the removal of the World War II Soviet...

Poland should also remove Soviet monuments - Katyn Committee 21:35 | 28/ 04/ 2007 WARSAW, April 28 (RIA Novosti) - The time has come to remove Soviet-era monuments in Poland, a Polish public organization said Saturday echoing the Estonian government's decision to remove the Bronze Soldier statue in central Tallinn. The Katyn Committee which is made up of relatives of Polish officers, who were executed on the orders of the Soviet authorities in the village of Katyn near Smolensk in western Russia in 1940, said just like Estonia Poland "suffered from the Soviet occupation, while Soviet monuments have always been...

Boris Yeltsin, who died on April 23, was a towering figure in Russian political history. But was he, as so many US obituaries and editorials have described him, the "Father of Russian Democracy"? As though a wave of historical amnesia had swept over the media, few commentators seemed to remember that it was Mikhail Gorbachev, upon becoming Soviet leader in 1985, who launched the democratic reforms of "perestroika" and "glasnost"--ending censorship, permitting, even encouraging, opposition rallies and demonstrations, beginning market reforms and holding the first free, multi-candidate elections. (Indeed, Yeltsin was the chief beneficiary of those reforms.) [...] After August...

Recently Russian authorities have remembered of all those people who lost their money kept in the Savings Bank of the RF in the year of 1991. That is the time when state-controlled prices were released according to the new economical policy of the country. The cost of products rose enormously within several months, the ruble as a national currency decreased in value with the same speed. People wanted to withdraw their deposits made earlier, but the Savings Bank was prohibited to pay out funds, while money got cheaper with every day passed. The situation was aggravated by the fact that...

Katyn 67th anniversary 03.04.2007 Today marks the 67th anniversary of the Katyn massacre. In 1940 the Stalinist NKVD secret police executed over 20 thousand Polish army and police officers, who had been held in POW camps in Ukraine since the Soviets invaded Polish territory in September 1939, on the basis of the Ribbentrop-Molotov pact signed with the Nazis. Commemorative events are being held throughout Poland. In Warsaw, a symbolic wreath has been placed by Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski at the Katyn quarters in the Powazki Military Cemetery.

UPHEAVAL IN THE EAST; U.S. Praises Poland's Plans To Fly Soviet Jews to Israel REUTERS Published: March 28, 1990 LEAD: The United States praised Poland today for agreeing to fly Soviet Jews to Israel and deplored the decision of the Hungarian airline, Malev, to stop flights in the face of threats of terrorism. The United States praised Poland today for agreeing to fly Soviet Jews to Israel and deplored the decision of the Hungarian airline, Malev, to stop flights in the face of threats of terrorism. [ Snip ] Poland offered Monday to increase its flights to Israel to accommodate...

Alarm bells rang in Moscow and Washington when China conducted its first nuclear weapons test on October 16, 1964. India also woke up to the capabilities of a nuclear-armed China that had invaded our territory less than two years earlier. President Lyndon Johnson appointed a high-powered Commission to suggest new directions to American policy in 1965. The Commission that included then CIA Director Allen Dulles rejected the suggestion that China should be countered by assisting India and Japan to go nuclear. It proposed that dialogue with China and the Soviet Union should be intensified to prevent new entrants to the...

Russia's latest version of fighter aircraft, the MiG-35, will be unveiled at next week's air show in Bangalore amid Moscow's keen interest to sell these planes to India. The MiG-35 fighters, top-of-the-line multi-role aircraft, will be on display along with the most sophisticated jets from the US, including the F-18 and F-16, and those from other countries at the five-day Aero-India International Defence show beginning next week in Bangalore, capital of Karnataka state. "It will be for the first time that the final version of MiG-35 fighter will be displayed," PTI reported here quoting an official of the Russian embassy....

Holocaust: Sweden's complex legacy On 27th January 1945, the Soviet Army liberated Auschwitz, an event commemorated around the world on Holocaust Memorial Day. David Stavrou looks at the complex legacy of the Holocaust in Sweden, where the battle to promote tolerance still rages. Chavka Folman-Raban is a Jewish survivor of Auschwitz who arrived in Sweden a few days before the end of the Second World War. Like many other survivors, she was liberated by the Red Cross and found refuge in Sweden. "I'm not sure I can describe with absolute certainty the transition from being a prisoner in a concentration...

Russia has suffered terribly at the hands of Islamic terrorism over the centuries and continues suffer today. Yet, Russia is the best friend of the terrorism-exporting Muslim countries. Russia is actively helping Iran towards its ambition to extiprate Israel. Will Russia learn a lesson?

Soviet Union behind John Paul shooting: papal aide By Philip Pullella Reuters Monday, January 22, 2007; 8:55 AM ROME (Reuters) - The late Pope John Paul's closest aide is convinced the former Soviet Union was behind the assassination attempt on the pontiff in 1981 because he was a threat to its power, according to the aide's memoirs. Cardinal Stanislaw Dziwisz, the Pope's private secretary for nearly four decades, writes of his life with the former Cardinal Karol Wojtyla in a book called "A Life with Karol" to be released by Italy's Rizzoli publishers on Wednesday. Dziwisz, now the archbishop of...

Russia to take decisive steps against Estonia · 01/18/2007 17:17 Russian Duma wants Moscow to take “decisive steps” if Tallin begins to dismantle a monument to the 50,000 Soviet soldiers who died fighting the Germans in World War II, euronews informed. Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said: _“As far as we are concerned, this is akin to blasphemy.” He added that Tallinn’s move was dictated by motives that have nothing in common with the necessity to learn lessons from the past and build a unified Europe without any borders. Tallin says the monument, dating from 1947, has become a focus...

Estonia’s hatred of everything Soviet is ‘demonic in nature,’ Bishop Ryakhovsky says Moscow, January 18, Interfax - The Russian Pentecostal leader Bishop Sergey Ryakhovsky called Estonian authorities’ decision to demolish the Liberator Soldier Monument and to re-bury the soldiers killed in battles for Estonia’s liberation from the Fascist occupation ‘a shameful act’. ‘What people can be troubled by the soldiers, who can no longer do or say anything to resist having their good names and feats humiliated and disgraced? Is it possible that they descend from those, whom Soviet soldiers saved from the SS gas chambers?’ he asks in his...

Before November 1, 1990, the dollar cost 63 kopecks, but there was no opportunity to buy it at such a rate. November 1 of the year 1990 established a commercial rate of 1.8 rubles per dollar. The first trading session was opened on April 9, 1991, in one of the premises of the USSR State Bank, where a blackboard had providently been brought in order to record deals. Following the only concluded transaction (for 50 thousand cashless dollars) the ruble was for the first time ever rated commercially. The real exchange rate of the US dollar against the ruble made...

Michelle Bachelet is the current commie president of Chile who made news all week by trashing Gen. Augusto Pinochet after he died. She adamantly refused to give state recognition for Pinochet's funeral, as is customary for former Chilean presidents when they die. Before his death Bachelet was one of the main driving forces attempting to get Pinochet prosecuted for "war crimes" against the dozens of Castro-backed marxist terror cells that he stamped out during his rule. At the funeral earlier this week Pinochet's grandson Augusto Pinochet Molina, a Chilean army captain, praised his grandfather's legacy. Bachelet retaliated against Molina for...

The two Russias Father Raymond J. de Souza Special to the National Post Published: Thursday, December 14, 2006 For a first-time visitor, it is impossible to stand in Red Square without feeling the weight of history in motion. The famous images of a decrepit Politburo reviewing military parades are now at least a generation out of date. One entrance now features a new archway upon which the image of St. Michael the Archangel is prominently displayed: Moscow's patron saint is back. Lenin's mausoleum is still here -- though there is a debate about what to do with his remains,...

Estonia bans Soviet symbolic: Russia rebels 1.12.2006 Estonia is introducing criminal responsibility for demonstration and spreading of official symbolic of the former USSR and its republics. The new rule also applies to symbolic of the National-Socialist party of Germany and SS. Usage of the USSR and Nazi Germany symbolic is penalized with fines or imprisonment for the period up to 3 years. In case if a legal entity violates this law the fine may exceed 3.2 thousand EUR. The Estonian government is now passing the new law project to the Parliament. An official representative of the Ministry of foreign affairs...

Wajda begins filming Katyn movie 01.12.2006 Krakow comes to a standstill as shooting of Oscar winning director Andrzej Wajda’s new film on the 1940 Katyn massacre begins. Report from Krakow by Robert Kusek The major streets and squares closed. The city veiled in mist and covered with artificial snow. Swastikas on the buildings. Men in Nazi uniforms. Krakow has once again become a location for the shooting of a new movie by Andrzej Wajda – one of the most renowned Polish filmmakers who in 2000 was presented with an honorary Oscar for his outstanding contribution to world cinema.. “Post mortem”...

Ukraine Recognize Famine As Genocide By NATASHA LISOVA 11.28.06, 9:31 PM ET Parliament adopted a bill Tuesday recognizing the Soviet-era forced famine as an act of genocide against the Ukrainian people in a vote seen as a victory for pro-Western President Viktor Yushchenko. The bill passed in a vote of 233-1, a small majority in the 450-seat legislature. Many lawmakers chose not to participate in the vote, choosing silence on a highly divisive issue. The 1932-33 famine, known here as "Holodomor" or "Death by Hunger," was orchestrated by Soviet dictator Josef Stalin and killed 10 million Ukrainians, almost one-third of...