14 December 2000 Read this article in Russian ST. PETERSBURG, Russia–This year, Christmas came a bit early in the Russian parliament when the country gave itself a new/old national anthem and decided on the national flag and the coat of arms on 8 December. And almost everyone was a winner. The communists unwrapped their Stalinist-era Soviet anthem–minus the lyrics; the […]
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