By Guy Faulconbridge MOSCOW, April 24 (Reuters) - President Vladimir Putin has ordered Russia's Federal Security Service's ...

MOSCOW -- To many, the tall statue of Feliks Dzerzhinsky, the founder of the Cheka secret police, was a symbol of bloody Soviet repression, and the moment when it was pulled down from its pedestal ...

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FILE PHOTO: A new statue of Felix Dzerzhinsky nicknamed "Iron Felix", a Soviet revolutionary who founded the Soviet secret police following the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution, rises above a public garden ...