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Monument taken down in Poland under communist symbols law

A monument of the “Polish-Soviet Brotherhood in Arms” was removed on Monday morning in Ploty, near Gryfice in northwestern Poland.

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Czech president signs law criminalising communist propaganda

The changes come following calls from some Czech institutions, including the Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes, to correct what they said was an imbalance in the legal system.

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Protesters in Slovakia rally against Robert Fico’s populist government

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Cuba

Some power restored after blackout leaves millions in Cuba in the dark

Cuba says some electricity was restored on the island after one of the country's major power plants failed and left millions without electricity.

China

Xi warns of 'rough seas' as China fetes 75 years of communist rule

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Travel News

Could this abandoned Communist monument become a tourist attraction?

The UFO-shaped Buzludzha monument was abandoned after the fall of the Communist regime in Bulgaria.

France

Resistance hero Missak Manouchian will be laid to rest at the Panthéon

Armenian-born poet and communist activist Manouchian was considered a hero among the French Resistance movement, which rose up against the Nazi occupation of France.

Russia

Russian presidential hopeful banned from running in election

Yekaterina Duntsova has lost her Supreme Court appeal against authorities' refusal to register her for the race.

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Ukraine gives capital's Motherland monument a makeover

Ukraine is rehabilitating the Motherland monument in the capital, Kyiv, removing any reference to the Soviet era.

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French architect and activist Roland Castro dies aged 82

A leading figure in the May 68 student protests, Castro was a proponent of architecture that improved the lives of the working classes.

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Was Chilean poet Pablo Neruda murdered? And if so by whom?

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