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Leonid Brezhnev at Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe (Helsinki Commission).

The Final Act that shook Europe

21:23 30/07/2010

Thirty-five years ago, on August 1, 1975, nearly all the Old World countries, plus the United States and Canada, managed to reach political consensus on all key issues and signed the Final Act of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe in Helsinki, the capital of Finland.

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The Final Act that shook Europe

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Scuffling for Arctic boundaries

Phantom of the Opera returns and triumphs

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