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Life in blackouts & why Russia has stolen the bones of Grigory Potemkin

Ukraine: The Latest

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The Battleship Potemkin Is a Battleship of the Tsarist Era in Russia

Daniel: Potemkin is a figure that has symbolic resonance in the Soviet era too. I think it's just another example really of how Putin takes picks and chooses from history whatever is useful for his project he is not a red czar he is his own entity, says Alexander Nekrassov.

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