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She has led Moscow's renowned Pushkin Museum for more than half a century, helped Russians discover the art of her friend Marc Chagall and battled to bring late impressionist art out of the vaults and into public view.

More than 100,000 digitized copies of documents from the Russian State Archive of Socio-Political History have made available to the public on an official Soviet-era documents website, including many from the Stalin era.

About 100,000 documents from the archives of Joseph Stalin and the Communist Party of the Soviet Union became available to the general public.

The authors of the concept of the joint textbook on the history of Russia intend to give teachers explanations on more than 30 controversial issues.

This week, an exhibition opened at the National War Museum in Edinburgh Castle on how the allies supported the Soviet Union in the Second World War through Arctic convoys to the north Russian ports of Archangel and Murmansk.

Russians' love for vodka has a long history. Legend holds that vodka arrived in Moscow in the 14th century, brought by Genovese merchants to Prince Dmitry Ivanovich.

Leonid Brezhnev, the Soviet leader of 1964-1982, is the most popular in Russia, Levada Center said.

Joseph Stalin had been General Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party for six years in 1928, when John Dewey, "the father of modern education," toured Russia with a group of educators.