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Image caption After a social media storm the restaurant no longer had the name “NKVD” on the wall A Moscow restaurant calling itself “NKVD” – a chilling echo of the Stalin-era communist terror – drew social media protests and the big sign outside has now been taken down. Restaurant staff …

Image copyright Jorge Rey/Newsmakers Image caption Fidel Castro welcomed Vladimir Putin when the Russian leader visited Cuba in 2000 I once travelled around a key site in the Cuban missile crisis on a cart pulled by oxen with a guide called Stalin. As we rattled through the mud alongside lush, …