Political repression in the Soviet Union

Moscow residents leave flowers in front of the memorial to the gulag victims - Rallies for the suspicious death of Putin's political rival also in European countries

His mother goes to the prison where the activist died - Moscow residents left flowers in front of the memorial for the gulag victims - Video and photos

This was the second and biggest wave of deportations out of the three that the Soviet Union enacted in Moldova. Between 1941 and 1951 there were three waves of deportations, and historians estimate that the total number of deportees was between 80,000 and 120,000.

Acting Prime Minister Galab Donev called for continuity in the actions of the regular cabinet for everything achieved during the 10 months of administration:

335,000 were killed by the Ottoman Turks

Turkey's foreign minister on May 23 praised Kazakhstan for its support to Ahıska Turks, also known as Meskhetian Turks.

Turkey on May 18 remembered the deportation and ethnic cleansing of Crimean Tatars 75 years ago by the Soviet Union.

All official institutions in Moldova lowered the national flag on Friday in a mark of respect for the victims of the second and biggest wave of deportations from Soviet-occupied Bessarabia that Stalin ordered on the night between June 5-6, 1949.

Canada has deported hundreds of people to countries designated too dangerous for civilians, with more than half of those people being sent back to Iraq, according to government data obtained by Reuters.

Russia plans the creation of a Ministry of State Security (MGB) in a large-scale institutional restructuring, sources quoted by daily Kommersant have suggested.