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Estonian Minister of Justice Urmas Reinsalu  responded to his Greek counterpart, Stavros Kontonis following the uproar caused by the decision by Greece to not participate in the recent European Day of Remembrance for Victims of Stalinism and Nazism in Estonia.

Polish President Andrzej Duda approves amendments to the law banning the propaganda of communism or another totalitarian system. This means the destruction of Soviet-era monuments, including those in honor of the Red Army and was announced by the presidential press service in Poland.

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China has increased military presence in the South China Sea (SCS).The Red Army recently deployed a rocket launcher in disputed Fiery Cross Reef. The Chinese state-run media reported over the weekend that Beijing made the move in order to counter the Vietnamese aggression.

The Bulgarian 'wolves' will depart on May 1 from the Soviet military monument in Sofia to join the tour, which follows the steps of the Red Army during WWII, the president of the Sofia Night Wolves Club, Dencho Zlatanov, said at a press conference on Thursday.

The Red Army entered Auschwitz liberating 7500 prisoners. The date was January 27th 1945 and in the following days 200 of the prisoners died, regardless of the medical assistance provided by the allied forces.

Russian rescuers trawling the Black Sea on Dec. 28 found the second black box from a Syria-bound military plane that crashed at the weekend with 92 people on board, authorities said.  

"The second onboard recorder from the Tu-154 plane has been found and raised from the seabed," the Defense Ministry said in a statement to Russian news agencies.

Monday is a day of mourning in Russia in honour of the victims of the crash of a Russian military plane TU-154 in the Black Sea.

Bulgaria has refused to pay over 23,490 US dollars for 23,500 pages of the so-called "trophy archives" - archive material taken to the USSR by the Soviet army at the end of the Second World War, the Bulgarian news website Dnevnik reported on Tuesday.

BELGRADE - Belgrade is especially proud to celebrate one of the most important events in our history, City Manager Goran Vesic said Thursday as the 72nd anniversary of Belgrade's liberation in WWII was marked with a memorial parade.