Putin outdoes Potemkin for World Cup
In 1787, Prince Grigory Potemkin erected special villages to impress his lover, Catherine the Great, on her trip…
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‘For Putin’s Visit, Perm Becomes Ultimate Potemkin Village’ and other neglected Russian stories
The flood of news stories from a country as large, diverse and strange as the Russian Federation often…
Russia, known for Potemkin villages, is now ‘a garden of fig leaves,’ Yerofeyev says
Russia gave the world the Potemkin village, in which officials tried to cover up problems from those above…