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A monument to Soviet dictator Josef Stalin erected in Moscow's metro is stirring debate, with some Russians welcoming it as a historical tribute, but others saying it's a mistake to commemorate someone who presided over so much suffering. -snip- Nearly 700,000 people were executed in Stalin's 1937-38 Great Terror amid show trials and purges of his real and perceived enemies. Many other Soviet citizens were sent to the Gulag, a grim network of prison camps, spread across the world's largest country. The Moscow metro said in a statement that the new version of the monument, which was presented to the...

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CLAIM JUMPERS NOT PATRIOTSSTEALTH, DENIAL and the RULES DON'T APPLY? Governor Gray Davis supports the concept...The memorial was installed without proper approvals... .The Department of General Services didn't approve...Legislature's Joint Rules Committee denies they approved...Maurice Johannessen, state secretary of veterans affairs denies he approved the projectRussell Lopez of the Governor's Office said Johannessen did approve the plaqueOpenly gay Assembly Democrats Christine Kehoe of San Diego, Jackie Goldberg of Los Angeles, Mark Leno of San Francisco and John Laird of Santa Cruz behind the plaque. Assembly members, from left, Jackie Goldberg, John Laird and Christine Kehoe place a wreath Tuesday at...

City officials in Mesa, Arizona, have mistakenly installed two bus shelters where no buses run. The installation cost £19,000 at a time when the city is cutting its public transit budget to save money. The shelters were installed as part of a £4.6m improvement project finished about a year ago. Although there is a bus service on part of the road, the vehicles turn before reaching the shelters. And even though the shelters have signs posted saying no buses pass by, people still wait. "It slipped through all of us and didn't get caught until after the fact," said Jeff...