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This is one of those nesting Russian dolls, called a Matryoshka doll, but instead of those pretty girlie figures we get all the main Russian leaders, from Boris Yeltsin right back to a teeny-tiny little Ivan the Terrible.
Summer Cleaning Heather McDougal 2009
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Political scientist Orozbek Moldaliyev (Kyrgyzstan): Janybek Bakiyev's slate was smeared by the so-called Matryoshka-gate scandal involving opposition leader Omurbek Tekebayev having heroin planted in his luggage while he was in Poland The parliamentary commission set up to investigate decided that Janybek Bakiyev could be involved.
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Political scientist Orozbek Moldaliyev (Kyrgyzstan): Janybek Bakiyev's slate was smeared by the so-called Matryoshka-gate scandal involving opposition leader Omurbek Tekebayev having heroin planted in his luggage while he was in Poland The parliamentary commission set up to investigate decided that Janybek Bakiyev could be involved.
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Political scientist Orozbek Moldaliyev (Kyrgyzstan): Janybek Bakiyev's slate was smeared by the so-called Matryoshka-gate scandal involving opposition leader Omurbek Tekebayev having heroin planted in his luggage while he was in Poland The parliamentary commission set up to investigate decided that Janybek Bakiyev could be involved.
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This dexterity has since materialized in a number of tracks-most notably amid a barrage of harpsichord-esque stabs on "Matryoshka", from a late 2007 split he shared with SCSI-9, and on a lush, grim B-side called "The Beach" that paired him with German producer Martin Eyerer.
PopMatters 2009
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Matryoshka Doll was written as the cry and the triumph of the spirit of the women I met there.
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She turned it over, seeing a legend scribbled on the bottom: For my Matryoshka, my darling of many faces.
Rogue Oracle 2011
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She turned it over, seeing a legend scribbled on the bottom: For my Matryoshka, my darling of many faces.
Rogue Oracle 2011
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Reuters A vendor displays a traditional Matryoshka doll or Russian nesting doll bearing the faces of Putin and Medvedev at a souvenir market in St. Petersburg on Monday.
Russia Ousts Finance Chief William Mauldin 2011
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Scholars typically corral his abundant output into three periods, neatly arranged like nested Matryoshka dolls: first, the early, colorful Russian phase; then the midlife "neoclassical" phase; and finally, a period in which, after a lifetime of rivalry, he seemed finally to capitulate to Schoenberg by adopting the latter's severe atonal system.
Stravinsky Crashes the Party Stuart Isacoff 2011
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