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Slogan hailing Stalin returns to metro station, draws scorn

Two sentences inscribed above the refurbished entrance hall of Moscow's Kurskaya metro station are causing great agitation for survivors of Russian labor camps.Yuri Fidelgoldsh, who had five ribs removed after imprisonment six decades ago, is one of the offended survivors.

Former Finland leader accepts Nobel Peace Prize

Nobel Peace Prize winner Martti Ahtisaari Wednesday called on U.S. President-elect Barack Obama to "give high priority to the Middle East conflict in his first year in office."

Fortune: America's next top industry

The mood is as black and sour as a canned olive. Flat is the new up. Every industry is either in the tank or circling the bowl. But wait! Not every one. There is, ladies and gentlemen, one area of vigor in this challenging environment, and those of us who are smart, savvy, and bent on survival would be well advised to jump on board.

Time.com: Murder, Russian-Style: Political Assassination

Viewpoint: The attempt to poison a leading human-rights lawyer may be the latest on a dispiriting list of blatantly political assassination attempts

Time.com: Author Alexander Solzhenitsyn Dies

Alexander Solzhenitsyn, the Nobel Prize-winning author whose books chronicled the horrors of the Soviet gulag system, has died of heart failure, his son said

Holocaust siblings meet after 66 years

A frail Irene Famulak clutched her brother on the airport tarmac, her arm wrapped around him in a tight embrace, tears streaming down their faces. It was the first time since 1942 they had seen each other, when she was 17 and he was just 7.

Time.com: Putin's New Role: Soviet Echoes

Analysis: When Dmitri Medvedev became President, it did not bring an end to Vladimir Putin's dominance in Russia

Stalin's granddaughter dies

Galina Dzhugashvili, a granddaughter of Soviet dictator Josef Stalin who challenged widely accepted accounts of her father's internment at a Nazi prison camp, has died in Moscow, a hospital official said Tuesday. She was 69.

Estonian man charged with genocide

An 88-year-old Estonian man has been charged with genocide for helping deport hundreds of his countrymen to Soviet camps in 1949, the Estonian prosecutor's office said on Wednesday.

Fortune: A Tale of Three Firings

FIRING PEOPLE may be the hardest task a manager has to do, for while it can be relatively easy to decruit a group of individuals at a distance, nobody likes the prospect of having to execute another person one-on-one. Joseph Stalin, who was as good at it as any senior manager in history, put it perfectly: "The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of millions is a statistic." Stalin might have been the worst guy ever to work for, but at least he wasn't guided by sentiment. And good for him, I say. This is business, not preschool.

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