Estonia hands remains of WWII Soviet soldier to Ukrainian kin

TALLINN, Oct 11, 2007 (AFP) - The remains of a fifth Red Army soldier exhumed from the site of a World War II memorial in the Estonian capital were on Thursday handed over to relatives from Ukraine, the foreign ministry said.

The remains of Stepan Hapikalo were handed over to two relatives who were due to take them back to the central Ukrainian city of Poltava for reburial, officials said.

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Estonia hands remains of WWII Soviet soldier to Russian kin

TALLINN, Sept 27, 2007 (AFP) - The remains of a fourth Red Army soldier exhumed from the site of a World War II memorial in Estonia's capital Tallinn were Thursday handed over to a relative from Russia, authorities said.

The remains of Mikhail Kulikov, born in 1909, were handed over to his granddaughter Anna Sokolova, who travelled from her home in the Yaroslavl region of western Russia, Estonian foreign ministry spokesman Mariann Sudakov told AFP.

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Holocaust memorial planned for Milan rail station platform

ROME, Sept 18, 2007 (AFP) - A Holocaust memorial is to be installed on a platform at Milan's central railway station where hundreds of Jews boarded trains destined for the gas chambers of Auschwitz, the Italian railway said Tuesday.

The memorial, which will take two years to build, will aim 'to create a space open to dialogue, debate and confrontation among different opinions,' the national railway said in a communique.

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