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Despite elections and the experience of post-Soviet personal freedoms by the Russian people, the fate of democracy in Russia is perhaps more ambiguous now than at any time since the collapse of the Communist system.

Richard Lugar

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Richard Lugar
Age: 87 †
Born: 1932
Born: April 4
Died: 2019
Died: April 28
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