The Guardian reports that President Putin faces a dilemma of how to commemorate the events which shook Russia and the world in the penultimate year of the Great War.
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Third Battle of Ypres/Passchendaele Centenary – UK ticket ballot opens
Descendants of those who fought at the Third Battle of Ypres/Passchendaele are invited to apply for tickets to attend the UK’s centenary commemorations in Belgium on 31 July 2017.
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Descendants of those who fought at the Third Battle of Ypres/Passchendaele are invited to apply for tickets to attend the UK's centenary commemorations in Belgium on 31 July 2017.
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Book launch – ‘National Myth & the First World War in Modern Popular Music’
A new book exploring how the First World War has influenced songwriters from the 1950s to the present day will be launched with a lecture by author Peter Grant in London on 7 March 2017.
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Was Jutland the battle that won the First World War? – Debate
British and German naval historians will answer questions about the Battle of Jutland in a public debate organised by the National Museum of the Royal Navy, Portsmouth, on 2 February 2017.
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The Man Who Created The Middle East
Publisher’s Description:’At the age of only 36, Sir Mark Sykes was signatory to the Sykes-Picot agreement, one of the most reviled treaties of modern times. A century later, Christopher Sykes’ lively biography of his grandfather reassesses his life and work, and the political instability and violence in the Middle East attributed to it.’
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Visitor numbers at US National World War I Museum hit another record
More than 300,000 people visited the National World War I Museum and Memorial in Kansas City in 2016, setting a new record for the third year in a row.
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NZ’s new Prime Minister visits WW1 battlefields in Belgium
New Zealand’s recently appointed Prime Minister, Bill English, has made an early visit to First World War memorials at the centre of Centenary commemorations in 2017.
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‘The Earth Remembers’ – Arras honours New Zealand tunnellers for 2017 Centenary
A new memorial honouring New Zealand’s WW1 tunnellers is due to be inaugurated during the Battle of Arras Centenary commemorations in France in April 2017.
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Battle of Vimy Ridge Centenary – Canada pays tribute, April 2017
Canada will hold ceremonies on 9 April 2017 to mark the 100th anniversary of the Battle of Vimy Ridge, the First World War victory seen as a defining moment for the country.
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