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Article: RUSSIA: PRESIDENT RESTORES NAME 'STALINGRAD' TO MOSCOW WAR MEMORIAL.(Brief Article)
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- IPR Strategic Business Information Database
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- July 25, 2004
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President Putin has signed an order instructing the Moscow city government to replace the name "Volgograd" on Moscow's Monument to the Unknown Soldier with the historically accurate name "Stalingrad," ITAR-TASS, RIA-Novosti and other Russian media reported. The city will have three months to make the change, according to the decree. The decree states that the decision was made "in the run-up to the 60th anniversary of victory in the Great Fatherland War [World War II], and taking into account the significance of the Battle of Stalingrad, the turning ...