On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 01:32:19PM +0400, ChrisD(RJ) wrote:
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> I wonder if his favorite is "The Idiot."
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> Chris Doss
> The Russia Journal
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> Bush brushes up his Dostoevski ahead of Russian summit: Moscow
> AFP
> May 14, 2002
>
> US President George W. Bush is taking a crash course in the novels of
> Fyodor Dostoevski, one of Russia's greatest writers, "to soak up the mood
> of Saint Petersburg" before he heads to Russia for a summit with President
> Vladimir Putin, a top Russian minister was quoted as saying.
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> Bush "is looking forward with impatience to coming to Russia" for the May
> 23-26 summit in Moscow and Saint Petersburg, Russian Foreign Minister Igor
> Ivanov said in an interview published in the daily Vremya Novostei.
>
> "He told me that he was reading Dostoevski specially in order to soak up
> the mood of Saint Petersburg," Ivanov said.
>
> "This proves what enormous potential our culture has," Ivanov said, adding
> that it was one of his ministry aims to promote Russia's rich cultural
> heritage abroad.
>
> In addition to discussing the works of Dostoevski with Putin, who is a
> native of Saint Petersburg like the 19th-century writer himself, Bush is
> due at the summit to sign a major disarmament accord slashing nuclear
> arsenals.
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