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The rise of the right-wing populist party threatens a coalition born at the end of the second world war https://t.co/YSvhuVH2Wb ...

Understudies make up about a quarter of a big show’s cast. Despite weeks of rehearsals and pay, they may never take to the stage. Yet understudies’ rates are rising faster than those of standard performers https://t.co/AWbpAAcgKg ...

Although some of Boris Yeltsin’s people were nervous about Vladimir Putin and his KGB past, few saw his potential to dominate Russia https://t.co/v9MfbwjU61 ...

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