Joseph Stalin"s grandson has called on Ukraine...
was quoted as saying by the paper.In December 2009, a Moscow court for a second time rejected a libel suit against a Russian newspaper. Dzhugashvili demanded Novaya Gazeta retract parts of an article calling Stalin a "criminal" and asked for 10 million rubles ($326,000) in compensation for damage to his honor.
He also brought a suit against Ekho Moskvy radio seeking compensation for "offensive disrespect for the late Soviet leader."
Millions of people were executed on fake charges of espionage, sabotage, anti-Soviet propaganda or died of starvation, disease or exposure in Gulag labor camps under Stalin"s rule. According to official statistics, 52 million were convicted on political charges during Stalin"s regime and 6 million were sent out of cities without any court verdict.
A Ukrainian court said last week it had dropped criminal proceedings on the charges of Holodomor, which the country"s authorities said killed more than 3.9 million people,
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