Russians are paying their last respects at a lying-in-state for Alexander Solzhenitsyn, a dissident writer who challenged the Soviet Union but was largely forgotten by a younger generation.
He died on Sunday aged 89. The author, who exposed Stalin's prison system in his novels and spent 20 years in exile, will remain at the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow before he is buired on Wednesday. Solzhenitsyn served with the Red Army in The Czech energy strategy: liberalization, efficiency, and nuclear power ...
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(Deutsche Welle)
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