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Se-Deuced by Russian Tennis Nymphets

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The English may accuse Russia of bad sportsmanship in the boardroom, but they certainly wouldn't mind taking a bit of a corporate raiding from the new crop of Soviet bloc sportswomen.

A series of ‘interviews’ to “assess the changes on court” was The Daily Telegraph's highly plausible excuse to “meet eight rising stars from the east in distinctly non-regulation kit”.

Good to see the Tottygraph fly its lecherous old flag…for the Motherland!

 

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Vadim Nikitin

Vadim Nikitin was born in Murmansk, Russia and grew up there and in Britain. He graduated from Harvard University with a thesis on American democracy promotion in Russia. Vadim's articles about Russia have appeared in The Nation, Dissent Magazine, and The Moscow Times. He is currently researching a comparative study of post-Soviet and post-Apartheid nostalgia.
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USSR; US-Russia Relations; Culture and Society; Media; Civil Society; Politics; Espionage; Oligarchs

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