Russia’s Valentina Tereshkova - the first woman ... to have been awarded the rank of Major-General, holder of the Woman of the Century title and legislator is 80 today. A special exhibition ...

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MOSCOW, March 6. /TASS/. Russia’s President Vladimir Putin greeted the first woman in space - cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova on her birthday on Sunday, the Kremlin said. Tereshkova turns 79.