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Russian President Vladimir Putin stressed that no statute of limitations applies to the crimes committed by Nazis in his congratulatory message sent to the participants in a recent international scientific practice forum.

The Nuremberg international military trial made a clear appraisal of the Nazi crimes 80 years ago, he said, adding that regulations and principles made at that time are a help to resolutely thwarting the attempts to distort historical facts and to finding countermeasures against global challenges and threats at present.

Saying that those who want to preserve the truth of the Great Patriotic War and sincerely hope for the recovery of historical justice of mankind were present at the forum, he emphasized that they are implementing the initiatives aimed at discovering new pieces of evidence about the heinous atrocities the Nazis and their puppets committed against peaceful residents in occupied territories of the Soviet Union.

He expressed his conviction that the forum would make a great contribution to the study of unique ideological and historical heritage left by the Nuremberg international military trial.