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Russian historian who exposed Stalin's crimes cleared of child pornography

Yuri Dmitriev's real crime, according to activists, was dedicating himself to documenting Stalin's 1937-38 Great Terror and discovering a mass grave with up to 9,000 bodies dating from the period.

Tajikistan to get $230M from China for new parliament building

China seeks to increase ties in the ex-Soviet Central Asia region which Russia has traditionally viewed as its backyard.