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Russia hands Poland 20 Katyn files

Russia has handed to Poland 20 volumes of documents on the World War II Katyn massacre of Polish officers in an official ceremony in Moscow, Russian news agencies said.

Saak Karapetyan, the head of the international legal cooperation at the Russian State Prosecutor's office, handed the volumes to Piotr Marciniak, a minister counsellor at the Polish Embassy in Moscow, on Thursday.

The materials included documents on Polish soldiers sent to prison camps, transcripts of interrogations and death certificates, the Interfax news agency reported, citing the Prosecutor General's office....
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