The Soviet leader Iury Vladimirovich Andropov (1914-1984) was the head for 15 years of the Soviet secret police. After Leonid Brezhnev's death in 1982 he became for 16 months the ruler of the Soviet U...
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Vladimir Kryuchkov, the former KGB chief who spearheaded a failed coup against Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, has died, officials said Sunday. He was 83.Kryuchkov died Friday in Moscow of an unsp...
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Today is Tuesday, Feb. 13, the 44th day of 2007. There are 321 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On Feb. 13, 1935, a jury in Flemington, N.J., found Bruno Richard Hauptmann guilty ...
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Internet criticism of Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee's involvement in the pardon of a castrated rapist and his heavy use of a state airplane disappeared with a mouse click.Such edi...
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Nov 5 (Reuters) - Following are some of the major
events to have occurred on November 12 since 1900: 1912 - Spanish Prime Minister Jose Canalejas was
assassinated by anarchist gunman Manuel Pardin...
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MOSCOW, Nov 25 (Reuters) - The Soviet Union's former KGB
chief Vladimir Kryuchkov, one of Russia's most influential
hardline spy masters, has died aged 83, Russia's foreign
intelligence service sa...
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Time magazine named Russian
President Vladimir Putin its "Person of the Year" for 2007
Wednesday, saying he had returned his country from chaos to
"the table of world power"...
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Budapest (dpa) - General Bela Kiraly has been at war a long time:
50 years to be precise.
In 1956 his weapons were bullets and bombs. Now words are his only
w...
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Iury Vladimirovich Andropov
Ex-KGB chief Kryuchkov dies at 83
