It said freedom for the Chechens was a "railroad car" to the Asian steppe, like those used to transport Chechens under Stalin's secret decree.

President Yeltsin and the Russian Security Council signed a secret decree pledging to re-establish constitutional order in the breakaway republic.

Its construction started with a secret decree signed by Argentine President José Evaristo Uriburu.

He said he was told that a secret decree forbidding his entry had been issued in October.

The previous month, Mr Yeltsin signed a secret decree giving Promecologia the right to export red mercury, an order which was rescinded on March 20th 1993.

July 11 - In Russia, a secret decree of the Sovnarkom creates the backbone of the Gulag system.

In this job, for instance, secret decrees might be prepared, or internal business managed, before being brought before Adolf Hitler.

Under the law, the Secretariat is subordinated to the Presidency and is ruled by secret decrees and laws.

Their case rested on two secret decrees issued by the Defense Ministry, which had never been published and were not made available to the defense.

He has been charged under a secret decree with having betrayed his country.