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Inside Russia

Inside Russia

Wednesday, 19th September 2007

Churchill described Russia as a ‘riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma’.

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Churchill described Russia as a ‘riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma’. He was referring to the Soviet Union, all eight million square miles of it. Slightly reduced, the Russian Federation now stretches to just over six and a half million square miles, but her enigmatic allure remains strong, and if anything has been intensified by the Litvinenko poisoning and a refreezing of post-Cold War relations.

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