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Russia promises to consider declassifying Netaji files
October 20, 2015
Just in: Russia has announced that it look into declassifying files on Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose. External Affairs minister Sushma Swaraj contacted her Russian counterpart Sergey
Lavrov requesting Russia to declassify the Bose files. Lavrov has told Swaraj that Russia will consider the request.
This comes a week after Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that that his government will
start declassifying the secret files related to Bose
from January 23 next year, raising hopes about solving the
seven-decade-old mystery about his disappearance.
Modi told Netaji's family members during a meeting in New Delhi that he
would also urge foreign governments to declassify files on Bose
available with them by writing to them and personally taking up with
their leaders, beginning with Russia in December.
Conspiracy theorists say that Bose may have been in the USSR after 1945, after the WWII ended.
Pic: PM Modi with family members of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose at 7 Race Course Road on October 14.
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