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Bronze Soldier removal turned into $US 700 MLN losses for Estonia German’s Die Deutsche Zeitung writes that the Estonian government has announced the total sum of its financial losses as a result of the removal of a Soviet war memorial from central Tallinn last April at $US 700 MLN.

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China train crash: 70 killed, hundreds injured At least 70 people have been killed and more than 400 injured after two passenger trains crashed in eastern China, according to the country's Xinhua news agency.

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War games in Chechnya The largest and only Russian army unit to be permanently located in the Chechen Republic has held large-scale training involving heavy artillery. Situated in the city of Khankala, 10 km from the capital Grozny, the 42nd...

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