At the North Caucasus branch of the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts in Vladikavkaz, the exhibition "One for All", devoted to the 75th anniversary of Victory, opens today, the first day of three days of mourning in Ossetia for the victims of Beslan

At the North Caucasus branch of the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts in Vladikavkaz, the exhibition "One for All", devoted to the 75th anniversary of Victory, opens today, the first day of three days of mourning in Ossetia for the victims of Beslan. The organisers' idea is that an exhibition about the Great Patriotic War should somehow consolidate, in the public mind, the new date for the end of the Second World War, appointed (sic!) for some reason as 3 September by a decision of the State Duma, with the Day of Solidarity in the Fight against Terrorism, established in memory of the victims of the Beslan terrorist attack.

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September digest: archaeological finds, exhibitions, museums, theatre and the Church

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At the North Caucasus branch of the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts in Vladikavkaz, the exhibition "One for All", devoted to the 75th anniversary of Victory, opens today, the first day of three days of mourning in Ossetia for the victims of Beslan

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September digest: archaeological finds, exhibitions, museums, theatre and the Church

Frederic Leighton

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