Saturday, March 17th, 2012
MOSCOW — The skies were sullen, the temperature freezing and the mood merry as the St. Patrick’s Day parade got underway Saturday, its 20th anniversary in Moscow. The Irish were everywhere, from Mansfield, Ohio (a Protestant chaplain in Moscow), Boston (an MIT professor starting a new university) and even Ireland (Philip McDonagh, the Irish ambassador). But the most ardent flag-wavers were hundreds upon hundreds of Russians, who share the Irish reverence for literature, love Irish music and apparently find few other opportunities to put on a kilt. Read full article > >
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Moscow celebrates St. Patrick
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Sunday, January 9th, 2011
Demonstrators gather outside the Iranian Embassy in London to protest at what they say was an attack on Iranian exiles at Camp Ashraf in Iraq.
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Protests at ‘attack’ on Iraq camp
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