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Moscow Wants to Build a Museum in Eastern Samar to Remember Russian Refugees in the Philippines

We often forget that about 6,000 White Russian refugees settled in Tubabao Island from 1949 to 1951.

The story of Russian refugees finding a second home in Eastern Samar is one of those rare lost footnotes in history that tie the two countries together. There was a time when 6,000 Russian refugees stayed in the Visayan province. This ...

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