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Writing on the monks’ journey, Pravda—the former organ of the banned Communist Party of the Soviet Union, now the organ of, um, the Communist Party of the Russian Federation—wrote that negotiations would happen in “Harvard State University, Boston, US.” Hey—if the monks want to spice up their social lives a little, harvard-parties.com-style, far be it from me to stand in their way. But please, I wondered, could they stop yammering about those silly bells...
...professor specializing in Russia and Eastern Europe, “you’re often dealing with young people whose home countries have been turned upside down,” said Timothy J. Colton, professor of government and director of the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies. When showed a PBS documentary about the period of transition in Russia from the early- to mid-1990s in one of his classes, Colton said, one of the families portrayed in the film was that of a student in the class, Marina L. Levitina, who attends the Graduate School of Arts...
...Costs such as construction, transportation and bell-replacement would be borne by the Russian side,” the statement read...
...delegation of Russian monks left Harvard yesterday after a weekend visit, the University announced that it would commission a study to determine the cost and feasibility of returning the Lowell House bells to their ancestral home in a Moscow monastery...
...understood that there are some important individuals in Russia who would like to gain favor with the Russian Orthodox Church [by paying for the bells],” Bossert said last year...