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Pushkin for president?(love for the Russian poet Alexander Pushkin)(Brief Article)

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From: The Economist (US)
Date: 19990522
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MOSCOW

ANY educated Russian home contains a stack of Pushkin's collected works. For those who lack the shelf-space for the newly published 19- volume bicentennial edition, there are more homely options.

The country's best-known chocolate maker, Red October, has launched a line of Pushkin chocolates promoted by a competition (if you can answer three questions printed inside the wrappers, you win more chocolate). A big western confectioner, Mars, uses him in its television adverts. There is no suggestion that Pushkin had a particularly sweet tooth, but no matter. His ...

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