The body of Russian writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn has been laid to rest in Moscow's historic Donskoi monastery after an ornate church service.
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev attended the ceremony, which followed an all-night vigil for the former dissident and Nobel laureate. Solzhenitsyn died on Sunday at the age of 89. The writer spent Merkel, Medvedev seek continuity in relations ...
New Russian President to visit Germany ... eight years in the Gulag prison camps before devoting his life to documenting the horrors of Soviet rule.
(Deutsche Welle)
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