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Down at my local Moscow supermarket, western Christmas carols and songs are playing on a loop. This year Ding Dong Merrily on High and All I Want for Christmas Is You sound curiously out of place. That's because from morning till night Russian TV channels have been telling the public that the west is out to destroy their country, that leaders in the west (not in the Kremlin) are to blame for the war in Ukraine, and that Russian values are more "spiritual" than western ones. At least they still like our music. As I push my trolley down the…
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