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...most frightening things about life in Moscow," says Galina Volchek, director of the Sovremennik Theater, "is this sense of inner, psychological defenselessness; the feeling that you are totally alone in facing whatever may happen." Russians have a word for this feeling of vulnerability in the midst of wrenching change: bespredel. Its literal meaning perhaps best sums up the new Moscow: no limits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Moscow: City On Edge | 7/4/1994 | See Source »

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