In Russian politics reliable information is scarce, formal relations are of relatively little significance, and things are seldom what they seem. Applying an or

"In Russian politics reliable information is scarce, formal relations are of relatively little significance, and things are seldom what they seem. Applying an o

Leaders of the Soviet Union, Stalin chief among them, well understood the power of art, and their response was to attempt to control and direct it in every way

The reexamination of values that began during the USSRs last years continues today in the search for a new Russian culture, one rooted in the pre-Soviet past bu

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