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  • Mostovshchikov, “FSK khorosho platit ofitseram, zaverbovannym dlya tainoy pomoshchi chechenskoy oppozitsii,” Izvestia, January 21, 1995.

    The Return Daniel Treisman 2011

  • Mostovshchikov, “FSK khorosho platit ofitseram, zaverbovannym dlya tainoy pomoshchi chechenskoy oppozitsii,” Izvestia, January 21, 1995.

    The Return Daniel Treisman 2011

  • Mostovshchikov, “FSK khorosho platit ofitseram, zaverbovannym dlya tainoy pomoshchi chechenskoy oppozitsii,” Izvestia, January 21, 1995.

    The Return Daniel Treisman 2011

  • Mostovshchikov, “FSK khorosho platit ofitseram, zaverbovannym dlya tainoy pomoshchi chechenskoy oppozitsii,” Izvestia, January 21, 1995.

    The Return Daniel Treisman 2011

  • An astonishing number of the most important words in the novel are made up of permutations of the letters P, L and T. Clothes are platye and a coat is tulup or pal'to; a crowd is tolpa, a noose is petlya, a handkerchief (Pugachov waves a white handkerchief as a signal for his executioners to hang someone) is platok, and a raft (at one point Pyotr encounters a gallows on a raft) is plot; to pay is platit 'and a half-rouble coin

    openDemocracy 2010

  • An astonishing number of the most important words in the novel are made up of permutations of the letters P, L and T. Clothes are platye and a coat is tulup or pal'to; a crowd is tolpa, a noose is petlya, a handkerchief (Pugachov waves a white handkerchief as a signal for his executioners to hang someone) is platok, and a raft (at one point Pyotr encounters a gallows on a raft) is plot; to pay is platit 'and a half-rouble coin

    openDemocracy Robert Chandler 2010

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