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...Harvard College Library and the Davis Center for Russian Studies announced yesterday the exclusive purchase from the Russian government of a huge collection of formerly top-secret Soviet archives...
...collection includes documents ranging from party censuses to information on the inner workings of the Russian secret police. In all, Harvard acquired 10,000 microfilm reels of various Soviet archives for a total of 25 million images. The original documents remain in Moscow...
Marshall L. Goldman, associate director for the Davis Center for Russian Studies, said Harvard has provided its students with a rare opportunity for scholarship by purchasing the archives...
Goldman said the Russian government made the archives available for sale due to extreme financial difficulties. Harvard's purchase was finalized in late March, although not without some last-minute drama...
Wars, of course, carry a political cost, and although Russian generals like to compare their operation to NATO's Kosovo campaign, it's proving a lot more expensive. Moscow has already acknowledged losing four soldiers and two planes in the campaign, while Chechen authorities claim their forces have killed upwards of 100 Russian men. Heavy losses in the Caucasus could prompt a backlash from Russian voters; meanwhile, the campaign has already drawn criticism from the U.S. and the European Union. That's likely to grow amid a burgeoning humanitarian crisis. More than 100,000 refugees have fled Chechnya since Russia...