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‘Democracy’ is derived from a Greek word meaning rule by the people, while ‘liberal’ and ‘liberalism’ derive from a Latin word meaning free. Today, however, democracy often is used as shorthand for liberal democracy and thus is thought also
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For anyone remotely interested and versed in Russian literature, history and culture. Love Pushkin, Tolstoy, Chekhov, Dostoevsky, Akhmatova, Nabokov? ...more
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