How Putin did for Pushkin (and Prigozhin)
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Putin, Pushkin and the decline of the Russian empire
Last month I stood on the corner of what used to be Pushkin St in Kyiv, but it's been renamed after a major figure of the early 20th century Ukrainian independence movement. Cancelling the author of Eugene Onegin seems over the top to many lovers …
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