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  Declassified CIA document claims 'aliens' turned 23 Soviet soldiers to stone in cold war encounter

  World | Apr 15, 2025, 07:20 PM IST

  Although the event allegedly occurred in either 1989 or 1990, the story surfaced after the disintegration of the Soviet Union and was declassified by the CIA in 2000.

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  Soviet soldier, missing for 33 years, found in Afghanistan

  World | Mar 06, 2013, 09:16 AM IST

  Moscow, March 6 : Sheikh Abdulla, an elderly-looking, impoverished widower working as a traditional healer in Afghanistan, has been found to be a Soviet soldier who went missing during a nine-year-long war that began when