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Friday 19 August 2016

Russia - Only half of Russians remember the 1991 failed Soviet coup - poll: euronews (in English)

Published on 19 Aug 2016
Russians have marked the 25th anniversary of a coup attempt, when a group of hardline members of the USSR Communist Party tried to seize power from then-Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev. 

Today, according to a poll, about half of Russians don't remember what happened on August 19, 1991. And those who can recall events give them little significance, or prefer not to talk about it, as political analyst Maria Lipman pointed out.

"And also to [Russian] President [Vladimir] Putin the idea that pe…
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