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Page last updated at 12:29 GMT, Wednesday, 6 August 2008 13:29 UK

Solzhenitsyn's coffin at Donskoi monastery
Solzhenitsyn is buried in Moscow
The body of Russian writer and dissident Alexander Solzhenitsyn, chronicler of Soviet brutality, is laid to rest.
In pictures: Lying in state
In his own words
Obituary: Solzhenitsyn

Rwanda genocide survivor praying next to skulls (file picture) France accused over Rwanda genocide
Rwanda's government accuses France of playing an active role in the 1994 genocide, in which about 800,000 were killed.

Ratko Mladic (1995 pic) Serbia urges Mladic to surrender
Serbia's defence minister urges Ratko Mladic and another Serb wanted for war crimes to give themselves up.

FEATURES, VIEWS, ANALYSIS
A French solider watches Rwandan Tutsis flee (file image from July 1994) Focus on genocide
Why Rwanda has issued allegations against France
A room in the UN detention unit at The Hague The 'Hague Hilton'
Inside Radovan Karadzic's sparse new home
Ivan Radic shows his Serbian ID card Ivan's journey
A Serb revisits the town he was forced to flee

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Conservation not an EU priority
Turkish ruling party escapes ban

HAVE YOUR SAY
Should Italian troops fight crime?

BUSINESS
Lonmin snubs £5bn Xstrata offer
BNP profits hit by write-downs

MARDELL'S EUROBLOG
Autumn challenges for EU
Obama woos Europe
Layers of make-believe

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Alexander Solzhenitsyn (file pic) Tortured patriot
Solzhenitsyn drew on Russian tradition to expose evil
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Fashion house makes designs open source
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Red Brigades woman granted bail
E Europe link to US ID fraud case
Italian K2 survivor 'in hospital'
EU plans 'fire-safe' cigarettes
Arctic Map shows dispute hotspots
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Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi. File photo Nude is veiled to spare Berlusconi's blushes

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