Famine
Feb 25 2009, AP

Russia issued a DVD and a thick book of historical documents on Wednesday to dispute claims that the Ukrainian famine of the 1930s amounted to genocide.

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Russian Valery Tishkov, a leading expert specializing in ethnographic studies, speaks at a news conference, in Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, Feb. 25, 2009. Russia is stepping up its campaign to discredit Ukrainian claims that a deadly Stalin-era famine was..