Word: izvestiya
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...public response. Instead of being dismissed, the murder may have destroyed the last vestiges of confidence in the system. The media pummeled the government for incompetence and toleration of extremism and venality. Corruption, unsolved murders, open demonstrations by neo-Nazis and anti-Semites mean just one thing, the newspaper Izvestiya declared in a typical front-page editorial: "It means that in Russia today there is no state; it is dead...