Why Russians feel adrift in a post-Soviet world
Today, many Russians see a country searching for a post-Soviet identity and striving for relevance. Of course, you won’t see this on television in the coming weeks. Sochi is becoming a Potemkin village, a phrase dating to the 18th century, when the governor of Crimea, Grigory Potemkin, so the story goes, had fake communities built along a river, a virtual utopia to impress the visiting Empress Catherine the Great.
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