This is news? :) (They must have done some serious fiddling to get Nicolas up there. Usually he's not even in the Top 20. Peter the Great is almost always No. 1.)
I think this is actually an adaptation of a Ukrainian show, which itself may be a copy of the British show.
--- On Tue, 7/15/08, Joseph Catron <jncatron at gmail.com> wrote:
> "He sent millions to their deaths in the gulag, but
> that has not
> deterred Russians from voting en masse for Josef Stalin as
> the face of
> their nation.
>
> "The Soviet tyrant and Second World War leader is
> battling Tsar
> Nicholas II for first place in The Name of Russia, a
> domestic version
> of the BBC series Great Britons. Stalin had been well ahead
> in the
> online vote until the show's producer appealed to
> members of a popular
> Russian social networking site to back Nicholas II..."
>
> http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article4339108.ece
>
> --
> "Hige sceal þe heardra, heorte þe cenre, mod sceal
> þe mare, þe ure
> mægen lytlað."
>
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