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What's inside the Putin doll? Russian craftsmen have long since satirized their politicians by painting their likeness onto traditional hollow "matryoshka" dolls, each of which houses a smaller doll in descending sequence. And where cynics might have expected to find the likeness of arch-oligarch Boris Berezovsky inside a doll representing the president he helped bring to power, Putin may instead contain figures unpalatable to the media tycoon. Indeed, the new president's campaign against some of the other oligarchs - politically powerful billionaires who, like Berezovsky, accumulated their fortunes by questionable means in the Wild West early years...
April J. Werner and Ben Bergstein, vendors from the Volga River Trading Company, sold products from Russia, Armenia and other eastern European countries. They had a large display of wooden nestling dolls called matryoshka, meaning "little mother" in Russian. They have been selling their products at the bazaar for four years...
This free-enterprise spirit is already much in evidence among Moscow street artists, who are doing brisk business with a variation of the famous matryoshka dolls. The new set contains caricatures of five Communist leaders from Lenin to Gorbachev. Cost...
...union is like a Matryoshka doll. You get a Matryoshka doll inside a Matryoshka doll, and you get identical dolls, just smaller and smaller. We have 15 union republics, but within those republics we have 20 autonomous republics, eight autonomous regions and ten autonomous areas. What we really need is 53 independent republics, each with a direct line of submission to the center. In the U.S. there are 50 states. We need the same...
...poem when presented with a subject by someone in his audience. The theme of Rozanov's current improvisation is-improvisations. He proceeds to spin out tales about other poets who then go on to invent tales of their own. The effect resembles a garishly colored Russian matryoshka: wooden dolls within wooden dolls...