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//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/75/%D0%9A%D1%80%D0%B5%D1%89%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%B5_%D0%A0%D1%83%D1%81%D0%B8.jpg/440px-%D0%9A%D1%80%D0%B5%D1%89%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%B5_%D0%A0%D1%83%D1%81%D0%B8.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="1200" /></a><figcaption><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russia" class="extiw" title="w:Russia">Russians</a> should realize that they are Orthodox in the first place; Russians in the second place; and only in the third place, people. ~ <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksandr_Dugin" class="extiw" title="w:Aleksandr Dugin">Aleksandr Dugin</a></figcaption></figure> <p><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russians" class="extiw" title="w:Russians">Russians</a></b> (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_language" class="extiw" title="w:Russian language">Russian</a>: русские, <i>russkiye</i>) are an East Slavic ethnic group native to <a href="/wiki/East/Central_Europe" title="East/Central Europe">Eastern Europe</a>; they are the most numerous ethnic group in <a href="/wiki/Europe" title="Europe">Europe</a>. The majority of ethnic Russians live in <a href="/wiki/Russia" title="Russia">Russia</a>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Quotes">Quotes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Russians&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Quotes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="B">B</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Russians&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: B"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>The Russians are fascinating, ingenious, creative, sentimental, warm-hearted, generous, obstinately courageous, endlessly tough, often devious, brutal and ruthless. Ordinary Russians firmly believe that they are warmer-hearted than others, more loyal to their friends, more willing to sacrifice themselves for the <a href="/wiki/Common_good" title="Common good">common good</a>, more devoted to the fundamental truths of life. They give the credit to the Russian soul, as broad and all-embracing as the Russian land itself. Their passionate sense of Russia’s greatness is paradoxically undermined by an underlying and corrosive <a href="/wiki/Pessimism" title="Pessimism">pessimism</a>. And it is tempered by resentment that their country is insufficiently understood and respected by foreigners. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodric_Braithwaite" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Rodric Braithwaite">Rodric Braithwaite</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.amazon.com/Russia-Myths-Realities-Rodric-Braithwaite/dp/1639362886"><i>Russia: Myths and Realities</i></a> (2022)</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="D">D</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Russians&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: D"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>[T]hrough the Russian people will be realized the last thought of <a href="/wiki/God" title="God">God</a>, the thought of the <a href="/wiki/Apocalypse" title="Apocalypse">End of the World</a>. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Aleksandr_Dugin" title="Aleksandr Dugin">Aleksandr Dugin</a>, as quoted in <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180604171359/http://www.nationalreview.com/2014/06/dugins-evil-theology-robert-zubrin/">"Dugin’s Evil Theology"</a> (June 18, 2014), by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Zubrin" class="extiw" title="w:Robert Zubrin">Robert Zubrin</a>, <i>National Review</i></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Russians should realize that they are <a href="/wiki/Eastern_Orthodox_Church" title="Eastern Orthodox Church">Orthodox</a> in the first place; Russians in the second place; and only in the third place, <a href="/wiki/Human" title="Human">people</a>. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Aleksandr_Dugin" title="Aleksandr Dugin">Aleksandr Dugin</a>, <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundations_of_Geopolitics" class="extiw" title="w:Foundations of Geopolitics">The Foundations of Geopolitics: The Geopolitical Future of Russia</a></i> (1997), Russia: Arktogeja, p. 255, as quoted in <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160607175004/https://www2.gwu.edu/~ieresgwu/assets/docs/demokratizatsiya%20archive/GWASHU_DEMO_12_1/John%20Dunlop%20Aleksandr%20Dugin's%20Foundations%20of%20Geopolitics.pdf">"Aleksandr Dugin's Foundations of Geopolitics"</a> (31 January 2004), by John B. Dunlop, <i>Demokratizatsiya</i>, Chapter: The Gorbachev Debacle</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="F">F</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Russians&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: F"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>[W]hy should the <a href="/wiki/Germans" title="Germans">Palatine Boors</a> be suffered to swarm into our Settlements, and by herding together establish <a href="/wiki/German_language" title="German language">their Language</a> and Manners to the Exclusion of ours? Why should <a href="/wiki/Pennsylvania" title="Pennsylvania">Pennsylvania</a>, founded by the <a href="/wiki/English_people" title="English people">English</a>, become a Colony of Aliens, who will shortly be so numerous as to Germanize us instead of our Anglifying them, and will never adopt our Language or Customs, any more than they can acquire our Complexion. Which leads me to add one Remark: That the Number of purely white People in the World is proportionably very small. All <a href="/wiki/Africa" title="Africa">Africa</a> is <a href="/wiki/Black_people" title="Black people">black</a> or tawny. <a href="/wiki/Asia" title="Asia">Asia</a> chiefly tawny. <a href="/wiki/America" class="mw-redirect" title="America">America</a> (exclusive of the new Comers) wholly so. And in <a href="/wiki/Europe" title="Europe">Europe</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Spain" title="Spain">Spaniards</a>, <a href="/wiki/Italians" title="Italians">Italians</a>, <a href="/wiki/French_people" title="French people">French</a>, Russians and <a href="/wiki/Swedes" title="Swedes">Swedes</a>, are generally of what we call a swarthy Complexion; as are the Germans also, the Saxons only excepted, who with the <a href="/wiki/English_people" title="English people">English</a>, make the principal Body of <a href="/wiki/White_people" title="White people">White People</a> on the Face of the <a href="/wiki/Earth" title="Earth">Earth</a>. I could wish their Numbers were increased. And while we are, as I may call it, Scouring our Planet, by clearing America of Woods, and so making this Side of <a href="/wiki/Earth" title="Earth">our Globe</a> reflect a brighter Light to the Eyes of Inhabitants in <a href="/wiki/Mars" title="Mars">Mars</a> or <a href="/wiki/Venus" title="Venus">Venus</a>, why should we in the Sight of Superior Beings, darken its People? why increase the Sons of Africa, by Planting them in America, where we have so fair an Opportunity, by excluding all <a href="/wiki/Black_people" title="Black people">Blacks</a> and Tawneys, of increasing the lovely White and Red? But perhaps I am partial to the Complexion of my Country, for such Kind of Partiality is natural to Mankind. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Benjamin_Franklin" title="Benjamin Franklin">Benjamin Franklin</a>, 1751 <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Franklin/01-04-02-0080">Observations Concerning the Increase of Mankind</a></li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="G">G</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Russians&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: G"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Kremlin-connected media outlets and Vladimir Putin himself have increasingly stoked xenophobia and hyper-nationalism among ethnic Russians, but whenever major Western outlets begin to notice just how bad the situation has become, the Kremlin leader as he has in the past has denounced the slogan “Russia for the [Ethnic] Russians” as dangerous. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_A._Goble" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Paul A. Goble">Paul A. Goble</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2024/04/even-as-kremlin-stokes-xenophobia-putin.html">"Even as Kremlin Stokes Xenophobia, Putin Gains Some Positive Press in the West by Denouncing Idea of ‘Russia for the Russians’ Alone"</a>, <i>Window on Eurasia</i> (April 1, 2024)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The Great Russians, [founder of the <i>Zalesskaya Rus</i> civic initiative Ilya Lazarenko] argues, were the first victims of <a href="/wiki/Moscow" title="Moscow">Muscovite</a> <a href="/wiki/Imperialism" title="Imperialism">imperialism</a>; and thus it is important to recognize that “Moscow is hardly [a] symbol of ‘Russianness’ but rather of a <a href="/wiki/Babylon" title="Babylon">Babylonian</a> mixing” that was inevitably the result of the messianic <a href="/wiki/Ideas" title="Ideas">ideas</a> which arose around that city rather than out of the minds of Great Russians as such. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_A._Goble" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Paul A. Goble">Paul A. Goble</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2024/01/after-rf-disintegrates-new-russian.html">"After RF Disintegrates, New Russian State Must Arise where Central Federal District is Now and without Moscow as Its Capital, Lazarenko Says"</a>, <i>Window on Eurasia</i> (January 11, 2024)</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="L">L</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Russians&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: L"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>These people were of all races, colors, and creeds.  <a href="/wiki/French_Colonial_Empire" title="French Colonial Empire">French</a> were in the north and in the Carolinas.  <a href="/wiki/Dutch_Empire" title="Dutch Empire">Dutch</a> had built the town on <a href="/wiki/Manhattan_(borough)" class="mw-redirect" title="Manhattan (borough)">Manhattan</a> island, and their patroons' estates in the Hudson valley; now they were building their own cabins in the Mohawk Indian country that is now New York State.  <a href="/wiki/Germans" title="Germans">Germans</a> had settled in the <a href="/wiki/New_Jersey" title="New Jersey">Jerseys</a> and in the far west, beyond <a href="/wiki/Philadelphia" title="Philadelphia">Philadelphia</a>.  Germans and <a href="/wiki/Ulster" class="mw-redirect" title="Ulster">Scotch-Irish</a> were climbing the Carolina mountains; <a href="/wiki/Swedes" title="Swedes">Swedes</a> were in <a href="/wiki/Delaware" title="Delaware">Delaware</a>, <a href="/wiki/English_people" title="English people">English</a> and <a href="/wiki/French_people" title="French people">French</a> and <a href="/wiki/Dutch_people" title="Dutch people">Dutch</a> and <a href="/wiki/Irish_people" title="Irish people">Irish</a> were settled in <a href="/wiki/Massachusetts" class="mw-redirect" title="Massachusetts">Massachusetts</a>, the <a href="/wiki/New_Hampshire" title="New Hampshire">New Hampshire</a> Grants, <a href="/wiki/Connecticut" class="mw-redirect" title="Connecticut">Connecticut</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Virginia" title="Virginia">Virginia</a>.  Mingled with all these were <a href="/wiki/Italians" title="Italians">Italians</a>, <a href="/wiki/Portugal" title="Portugal">Portuguese</a>, <a href="/wiki/Finns" title="Finns">Finns</a>, <a href="/wiki/Arabs" title="Arabs">Arabs</a>, <a href="/wiki/Armenians" title="Armenians">Armenians</a>, Russians, <a href="/wiki/Greeks" title="Greeks">Greeks</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Black_people" title="Black people">Africans</a> from a dozen very different <a href="/wiki/Africa" title="Africa">African</a> peoples and cultures.  Black, brown, yellow and white, all these peoples were some of them free and some of them <a href="/wiki/Slavery_in_the_United_States" title="Slavery in the United States">slaves</a>.  Also they were intermarried with the <a href="/wiki/Native_Americans_in_the_United_States" title="Native Americans in the United States">American Indians</a>. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Rose_Wilder_Lane" title="Rose Wilder Lane">Rose Wilder Lane</a>, §1 of "The Third Attempt," ch. V of Pt. Two of <i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://mises.org/library/discovery-freedom">The Discovery of Freedom: Man's Struggle Against Authority</a></i> (New York: The John Day Company, 1943), pp. 153–154.</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="N">N</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Russians&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: N"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>You ain't from Russia, so bitch why you Russian? <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelly" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Nelly">Nelly</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70o_F6Yo7ck">"Pimp Juice"</a>, <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nellyville" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Nellyville">Nellyville</a></i> (2002), California: Universal Records</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The Russians are serious people. One of the reasons <a href="/wiki/Nikita_Khrushchev" title="Nikita Khrushchev">Khrushchev</a> was put on the shelf back in 1964 is that the proud Russians became ashamed of his crude antics at the <a href="/wiki/United_Nations" title="United Nations">U.N.</a> and in other <a href="/wiki/International_relations" title="International relations">international forums</a>. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Richard_Nixon" title="Richard Nixon">Richard Nixon</a>, as quoted in <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/declassified-richard-nixon-letter-president-clinton-proves-prophetic-russia">"Declassified Richard Nixon letter to President Clinton proves prophetic on Russia"</a> (2023), by Chris Pandolfo, <i>Fox News</i></li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="P">P</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Russians&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: P"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>The difficulty in understanding the Russian is that we do not take cognizance of the fact that he is not a <a href="/wiki/Europe" title="Europe">European</a>, but an <a href="/wiki/Asian_people" title="Asian people">Asiatic</a>, and therefore thinks deviously. We can no more understand a Russian than a <a href="/wiki/Chinese_people" title="Chinese people">Chinaman</a> or a <a href="/wiki/Japanese_people" title="Japanese people">Japanese</a>, and from what I have seen of them, I have no particular desire to understand them, except to ascertain how much lead or iron it takes to kill them. In addition to his other Asiatic characteristics, the Russian has no regard for human life and is an all out son of bitch, barbarian, and <a href="/wiki/Alcoholism" title="Alcoholism">chronic drunk</a>. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/George_S._Patton" title="George S. Patton">George S. Patton</a>, as quoted in <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://openlibrary.org/books/OL7932388M/Eisenhower"><i>Eisenhower: A Soldier's Life</i></a> (2002), by Carlo D'Este, New York City: Henry Holt and Company, p. 739</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="R">R</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Russians&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: R"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Russians have always been suckers for greatness. They would sell their last shirt for its elusive promise. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Radchenko" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Sergey Radchenko">Sergey Radchenko</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/why-russia-needs-to-be-humiliated-in-ukraine">"Why Russia needs to be humiliated in Ukraine: Too little was learnt from the collapse of the Soviet Union"</a> (May 15, 2022), <i>The Spectator</i></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>At the same time, I also wish to pay tribute to the Russian people from whom the <a href="/wiki/Red_Army" class="mw-redirect" title="Red Army">Red Army</a> springs, and upon whom it is dependent for its men, women, and supplies. They, too, are giving their full efforts to the <a href="/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">war</a> and are making the supreme sacrifice. The Red Army and the Russian people have surely started <a href="/wiki/Wehrmacht" class="mw-redirect" title="Wehrmacht">the Hitler forces</a> on the road to ultimate defeat and have earned the lasting admiration of the people of the <a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">United States</a>. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Franklin_D._Roosevelt" title="Franklin D. Roosevelt">Franklin D. Roosevelt</a>; <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/209796">Message to Stalin on the Twenty-fifth Anniversary of the Red Army</a>, The American Presidency Project; 22 February 1943</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="S">S</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Russians&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: S"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Imagine that one not very fine day two or three of your states in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southwestern_United_States" class="extiw" title="w:Southwestern United States">Southwest</a>, in the space of 24 hours, declare themselves <a href="/wiki/Independence" title="Independence">independent</a> of the U.S. They declare themselves a fully <a href="/wiki/Sovereignty" title="Sovereignty">sovereign</a> nation, decreeing that <a href="/wiki/Spanish_language" title="Spanish language">Spanish</a> will be the only language. All <a href="/wiki/English_language" title="English language">English-speaking</a> residents, even if their ancestors have lived there for 200 years, have to take a test in the Spanish language within one or two years and swear allegiance to the new nation. Otherwise they will not receive <a href="/wiki/Citizenship" title="Citizenship">citizenship</a> and be deprived of <a href="/wiki/Civil_and_political_rights" title="Civil and political rights">civic</a>, <a href="/wiki/Right_to_property" title="Right to property">property</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/labor_rights" class="extiw" title="w:labor rights">employment rights</a>. What would be the reaction of the <a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">United States</a>? I have no doubt that it would be immediate military intervention. But today Russia faces precisely this scenario. In 24 hours she lost eight to 10 purely Russian provinces, 25 million ethnic Russians who have ended up in this very way--as "undesirable aliens." In places where their fathers, grandfathers, great-grandfathers have lived since way back--even from the 17th century--they face <a href="/wiki/Persecution" title="Persecution">persecution</a> in their jobs and the suppression of their <a href="/wiki/Culture" title="Culture">culture</a>, <a href="/wiki/Education" title="Education">education</a> and <a href="/wiki/Russian_language" title="Russian language">language</a>. Meanwhile, in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Asia" class="extiw" title="w:Central Asia">Central Asia</a>, those wishing to leave are not permitted to take even their <a href="/wiki/Private_property" title="Private property">personal property</a>. The authorities tell them, "There is no such concept as 'personal property'!" <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Aleksandr_Solzhenitsyn" title="Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn">Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn</a>, Interview With Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn on the New Russia and Ukraine (May 1994)</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="T">T</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Russians&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: T"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>A Russian is self-assured just because he knows <a href="/wiki/Nothing" class="mw-redirect" title="Nothing">nothing</a> and does not want to know anything, since he does not believe that anything can be known. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Leo_Tolstoy" title="Leo Tolstoy">Leo Tolstoy</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_and_Peace" class="extiw" title="w:War and Peace"><i>War and Peace</i></a>, Book IX, Chapter Ten, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://archive.is/XQbPG">p. 898</a>, as quoted in <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20181129175004/https://www.realcleardefense.com/articles/2018/11/28/russias_paranoid_foreign_policy_113985.html">"Russia’s Paranoid Foreign Policy"</a> (November 28, 2018), by Zachery Tyson Brown, <i>RealClearDefense</i></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Russians follow orders; people are afraid – more afraid of <a href="/wiki/Government_of_Russia" title="Government of Russia">the state</a> – than of <a href="/wiki/Death" title="Death">dying</a>. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yaroslav_Trofimov" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Yaroslav Trofimov">Yaroslav Trofimov</a>, as quoted in <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuc3ByZWFrZXIuY29tL3Nob3cvNTgxNjQ3OS9lcGlzb2Rlcy9mZWVk/episode/aHR0cHM6Ly9hcGkuc3ByZWFrZXIuY29tL2VwaXNvZGUvNTgyNDQ4MTc?sa=X&ved=0CAQQ8qgGahgKEwiQlpvh-tKDAxUAAAAAHQAAAAAQjBs">"From Ukraine, a War Correspondent"</a> (January 10, 2024), by <a href="/wiki/Jay_Nordlinger" title="Jay Nordlinger">Jay Nordlinger</a>, <i>Q & A, Hosted by Jay Nordlinger</i></li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="W">W</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Russians&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: W"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>[to drivers] not forget that the health and lives of other people depend on you… comply with the established rules of behavior on the road. <ul><li>‘Emergency Situations Ministry, as quoted in "<a href="https://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Bus_carrying_children_overturns_in_Babyninsky,_Russia;_at_least_seven_die" class="extiw" title="n:Bus carrying children overturns in Babyninsky, Russia; 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