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25 September was the decisive day of the uprising. On the morning of that day, under the leadership of Gavril Genov, the insurgents attacked military reinforcements heading to put down the uprising in the town of Boychinovtsi, near Ferdinand, and in the ensuing Battle of Boychin scored a major victory against government forces. This victory ...
Boychinovtsi [3] (Bulgarian: Бойчиновци, also transliterated as Boichinovtsi, Boichovci, Boychonovci, or Boychinovtzi; [4] pronounced [bojˈt͡ʃinovt͡si]) is a town (град) in northwestern Bulgaria, the administrative centre of Boychinovtsi Municipality (Община Бойчиновци), Montana Province (Област Монтана).
Boychinovtsi Municipality (Bulgarian: Община Бойчиновци) is a municipality in Montana Province, Northwestern Bulgaria, located in the transition between the Danubian Plain and the area of the so-called Fore-Balkan. It is named after its administrative centre – the town of Boychinovtsi.
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FKU [nb 1] Corrective Colony No. 6 of the UFSIN of Russia for Vladimir Oblast also known simply as IK-6 Melekhovo or Melekhovo correctional colony, is a strict regime corrective colony located on the outskirts of the town of Melekhovo in Vladimir Oblast, Russia.
Romanian President Ion Iliescu claimed in a Der Spiegel interview that he approved just the use of the location, without knowing the details about the secret prison. [6] The U.S. government requested at the end of 2002/beginning of 2003 a building for the CIA and Iliescu approved it, appointing presidential adviser Ioan Talpeș in charge of the details.
The prison was built as part of a system of similar prisons in the region in the 1930s during the Soviet era. [2] [5] University of Oxford scholar Judith Pallot described the prison as being "stuck in time for 50 years." [2] Inmates are housed dormitory-style with 100 bunk beds in a large room. [2] Personal belongings are not permitted. [2]
Berezhany massacre (Brzeżany in pre-war Poland): between June 26 and 30 June 1941 the crew of the NKVD prison executed from 174 to 300 Polish citizens. [23] [24] Among them were many Ukrainians. [15] Chortkiv (Czortków in pre-war Poland): in the last days of June 1941 the Soviets executed an estimated 100 to 200 prisoners held in the local ...