Images appear to show a monkey wearing a Nazi uniform performing at a state circus last week.
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BBC World Service
By Amalia Zatari
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BBC News Russian, Belarus
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BBC News, Prague
A clip from Wes Hurley's autobiographical tale of growing up gay in Soviet Union
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By Toby Luckhurst
BBC News
Newsreel footage from 1945 shows Winston Churchill, Franklin Roosevelt and Joseph Stalin at Yalta.
In the dead of winter, a group of students set out on a trek into the Ural Mountains. Their frozen bodies - with inexplicable injuries - were discovered in locations that compounded the puzzle of how they died. Read more
By John Simpson
World Affairs Editor
The former Soviet leader warns that the tension between Russia and the West is a risk to the entire planet.
By Tatsiana Yanutsevich and Tatsiana Melnichuk
BBC News, Belarus