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After listening to David Greene’s Midnight in Siberia, I feel like Russia is a bit less inexplicable than Churchill’s riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma. Greene lived in Moscow for three years, working for NPR. Russia fascinates Greene. According to him Russians are a breed apart. While he worked on stories for NPR, Greene tried to understand Russians. In Midnight in Siberia, a travelogue of Greene’s farewell trip across Russia, the journalist delivers his thesis about what makes Russians so Russian...
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