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 | | In the run-up to the recent national census in Russia, Grigory Yavlinsky, leader of the left-liberal Yabloko party, asserted that 97 percent of the Russian population lived in poverty. |
 | | In an article reprinted in numerous publications, Valeria Novodvorskaya, leader of the Democratic Union, insists in all seriousness that most Russians collectively suffer from maniac-depressive psychosis. |
 | | The writer and TV personality Edvard Radzinsky, a prominent proponent of the comic-strip school of historiography, exclaimed on camera, in his usual bathetic style: "For a thousand years the [Russian] people has been oppressed and kept in a state of semi-starvation!" Journalist Alla Bossart thus sees her native Russia: "Sick cities. |
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