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Will AKEL still doubt Soviet role in Polish massacre?

By Loucas Charalambous 29/04/12
IN MAY 2010, the then president of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev released a document about the massacre of about 22,000 Polish officers and others by the Russian army in 1940.The document was the notorious letter, written on March 5, 1940 by Lavrentiy Beria, head of the Soviet secret police NKVD (precursor to the KGB), to Stalin proposing the execution of the Poles on the grounds that they were all “enemies of the Soviet authorities and full of hate for the Soviet system”.The document, which featured the signatures of Stalin and other members of the Politburo, sent shock-waves across the world, even though the truth was known and nobody had ever believed Stalin’s propaganda which blamed this heinous crime on the Germans... 6 comments

Lifetime membership of PACE for former Cypriot MP

By Stefanos Evripidou 25/04/12
 FORMER DISY MP Christos Pourgourides has been awarded lifetime membership of the Council of Europe’s Parliamentary Assembly (PACE) by its President Jean-Claude Mignon during its current plenary session. During the award ceremony, Mignon described the former Cypriot MP and member of PACE as a “symbol of democracy”.Pourgourides held numerous offices as a member of PACE, notably that of Vice-President of the Assembly and Chair of the Legal Affairs and Human Rights Committee. He also acted as rapporteur on the implementation of European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) judgements, and on fair trial issues in criminal cases concerning espionage or divulging state secrets. ... Read on
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