Russia"s State Duma has welcomed Ukrainian...

Under present Ukrainian law, it is an offense to deny the famine.

Gryzlov also condemned the attempts of several delegations to use PACE as a tribunal for spreading anti-Russian policies.

The 1932-1933 Holodomor in Ukraine was a part of a wider Soviet famine. Estimates on the total number famine victims in Soviet Ukraine vary from 2.6 million to 10 million. The peacetime humanitarian catastrophe is said to have been provoked by Soviet leader Joseph Stalin"s bad economic and trade policies.

MOSCOW, April 28 (RIA Novosti)