The Soviet political leader Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev (1894-1971) was a major force in world politics in the post-Stalin period.Nikita Khrushchev was born in Kalinovka in southern Russia on April 1...
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Why was a policy of de-Stalinisation carried out by Khrushchev after he became leader of the Soviet Union"
Khrushchev rose to power as an active supporter of Stalin. In helping organise the dismant...
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Moscow (dpa) - The funeral procession carrying Boris Yeltsin's
body left Moscow's Christ the Saviour Cathedral to take the first
Russian president's body to his final restin...
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Moscow (dpa) - Tens of thousands of mourners filed past the open
coffin of Boris Yeltsin at Moscow's Christ the Saviour Cathedral,
overnight to Wednesday, ahead of the state...
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Oct 19 (Reuters) - Following are some of the major events to
have occurred on Oct. 26 since 1900: 1905 - Revolutionary Russian workers in St. Petersburg
formed the first Soviet, or workers' assemb...
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Washington (dpa) - The United States on Friday rejected Russian
President Vladimir Putin's suggestion that US plans for a missile
shield in Eastern Europe are as dangerous a...
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Moscow (dpa) - Her name in translation means "barker," but in the
end Laika, the first living creature in space, must have gone out
whimpering.
When Soviet sp...
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Set on a knoll overlooking an oxbow bend in the Moscow River, the hallowed ground of the Novodevichy Cemetery holds the remains of scores of engineers, artists and politicians who helped shape Russ...
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Today is Tuesday, March 27, the 86th day of 2007. There are 279 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On March 27, 1977, 583 people were killed when a KLM Boeing 747, attempting to tak...
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Today is Wednesday, Sept. 15, the 259th day of 2004. There are 107 days left in the year. The Jewish New Year, Rosh Hashanah, begins at sunset.Today's Highlight in History:On Sept. 15, 1963, four b...
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Moscow (dpa) - Boris Yeltsin's body arrived at its final resting
place Wednesday amid a funeral procession combining military and
church heraldry and attended by world leade...
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Today is Tuesday, July 24, the 205th day of 2007. There are 160 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On July 24, 1959, during a visit to Moscow, Vice President Richard M. Nixon engage...
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Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev
Khruschev's Reasoning for De-stalinisation
2ND LEAD: Yeltsin funeral procession leaves for cemetery
