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August brings coup talk to Russian political lips
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MOSCOW -- In muggy August, Russians retreat to their dachas, pick
mushrooms, picnic amid the great white birch trees and drink
themselves merry.
They also tend to see everywhere signs of an impending coup
d'etat.
This August, they have already got a jump on this last tradition.
A front-page headline Thursday in the newspaper Moskovskii
Komsomoletz read: "Again a coup, or what?"
In St. Petersburg, the local chapter of the Democratic Russia
movement sent President Bor...
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