Minister: Death of POWs Reason for Slovenia-Russia Friendship

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Speaker Pavel Gantar (right) shakes hands with Deputy Speaker of the Russian Duma Lyubov Sliska (left)
Photo: TIna Kosec/STA

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Speaker Pavel Gantar (right) shakes hands with Deputy Speaker of the Russian Duma Lyubov Sliska (left)
Photo: TIna Kosec/STA

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A ceremony at the Russian Chapel commemorates the death of over 300 WWI Russian POWs who were killed by an avalanche in 1916 while building the Vrsic mountain pass road.
Photo: Tina Kosec/STA

Kranjska Gora
A ceremony at the Russian Chapel commemorates the death of over 300 WWI Russian POWs who were killed by an avalanche in 1916 while building the Vrsic mountain pass road.
Photo: Tina Kosec/STA

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Deputy Speaker of the Russian Duma Lyubov Sliska lays a wrath at the Russian Chapel.
Photo: Tina Kosec/STA

Kranjska Gora
A ceremony at the Russian Chapel commemorates the death of over 300 WWI Russian POWs who were killed by an avalanche in 1916 while building the Vrsic mountain pass road.
Photo: Tina Kosec/STA

Kranjska Gora
A ceremony at the Russian Chapel commemorates the death of over 300 WWI Russian POWs who were killed by an avalanche in 1916 while building the Vrsic mountain pass road.
Photo: Tina Kosec/STA

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Culture Minister Majda Sirca lays a wrath at the Russian Chapel.
Photo: Tina Kosec/STA

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Culture Minister Majda Sirca addressing a ceremony remembering the death of over 300 Russian POWs from WWI who were killed in an avalanche in 1916 while building the Vrsic mountain pass road.
Photo: Tina Kosec/STA

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Deputy Speaker of the Russian Duma Lyubov Sliska addressing a ceremony remembering the death of over 300 Russian POWs from WWI who were killed in an avalanche in 1916 while building the Vrsic mountain pass road.
Photo: Tina Kosec/STA

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Culture Minister Majda Sirca addressing a ceremony remembering the death of over 300 Russian POWs from WWI who were killed in an avalanche in 1916 while building the Vrsic mountain pass road.
Photo: Tina Kosec/STA

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Deputy Speaker of the Russian Duma Lyubov Sliska (left) talking to Prime Minister Borut Pahor (right) and Speaker Pavel Gantar (centre).
Photo: Tina Kosec/STA

Kranjska Gora
A ceremony at the Russian Chapel commemorates the death of over 300 WWI Russian POWs who were killed by an avalanche in 1916 while building the Vrsic mountain pass road.
Photo: Tina Kosec/STA

Kranjska Gora
A ceremony at the Russian Chapel commemorates the death of over 300 WWI Russian POWs who were killed by an avalanche in 1916 while building the Vrsic mountain pass road.
Photo: Tina Kosec/STA

Kranjska Gora
A ceremony at the Russian Chapel commemorates the death of over 300 WWI Russian POWs who were killed by an avalanche in 1916 while building the Vrsic mountain pass road.
Photo: Tina Kosec/STA