Founded by Irena and Dmitry Lesnevsky, it has a reach of nearly 100 million viewers across Russia.

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But Irena Hopkins, deputy mayor of Ammanford in Carmarthenshire, argues that pests, particularly rats, are a public health hazard for which councils should take responsibility.

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That prompted a spirited rebuttal from historians and other conference participants, and not least from Irena Veisaite, a Holocaust survivor and leading member of Lithuania's small Jewish community.

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Irena Wiley, wife of the sympathetic Vienna-based Consul General John Wiley, sent away for Chicago and New York phone books so that prospective emigrants could track down relatives, real or imagined.

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If anything, untruth is not dodged here but brought to the fore, as the men meet a teen-age runaway, Irena (Saoirse Ronan), who keeps changing her story, in a bid to earn their help.

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My wartime name then became Irena Budreikaite.

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