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Sotsialisticheskoe zemledelie [Socialist Agriculture], no. 42 (April 6): 1. On April 4, 1941, an Agreement on Trade and Payments was signed in Moscow between the USSR and Belgium. The agreement was concluded after negotiations between the Deputy People’s Commissar of Foreign Trade of the USSR, comrade M. S. Stepanov, and the Head of the Trade Agreements Department of the Commissariat of Foreign Trade, comrade D. D. Mishustin, on the one side, and, on the other side, the Adviser of the German

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2017

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Krasnoe znamya [Red Banner] (the official newspaper of the Tomsk region), no. 62 (March 22, 1922): 2. Weekly conversations at the Esperanto club are to be resumed on every Wednesday, 5 to 7 pm. The club is located in its old premises (4 Plekhanovsky). The club has a library which comprises 800 volumes in this international language. Registration of new members and explanations of all questions related to the Esperanto language and movement take place during the same hours. The club has

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2017

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Tovarishch [Comrade] (a regional newspaper of the Vyaz’ma Communist Party organization), no. 66 (March 21, 1924): 1. A political immigrant arrives from Bulgaria A political immigrant from Bulgaria, comrade Pervanov, has arrived in Vyaz’ma to conduct a [fundraising] campaign of international assistance to revolutionary fighters. In his conversation with the editorial team, comrade Pervanov described a dire economic and political situation of Bulgaria. All political activities of workers and

March

2017

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Sovetskaia kultura, no. 33 (March 20, 1971): 2. It is well known that our historical and architectural monuments do not have a lack of visitors. But successful work of any museum depends on how these heritage objects are represented to visitors. Unfortunately, due to a variety of reasons, one of which is a lack of guides, one can sometimes see in our museum estate Arkhangelskoe small groups of tourists headed by amateur girl-guides who point a finger at a building and exclaim: “Look at this

March

2017

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Dubrovskaia kochegarka (a local newspaper published in one of workers' settlements in the Leningrad region), no. 15 (March 14, 1933): 4. During February and the first days of March, there was a regular theft took place at the main storage facility of the Naziestroi supply department. Thieves have stolen the following commodities from the storage: 15 mattresses, 35 towels and many felt boots, coats, reefing jackets, and other items, in total worth of 2,000 rubles. An investigation undertaken by

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2017