http://www.newstatesman.com/writers/helen_womack en http://www.newstatesman.com/200607170033 http://www.newstatesman.com/200607170033 Mon, 17 Jul 2006 12:00:00 GMT Helen Womack High oil prices have given Russia renewed power, frightening the west but bringing hope to ordinary Russians. Helen Womack reports

]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/200404050020 http://www.newstatesman.com/200404050020 Mon, 05 Apr 2004 12:00:00 GMT Helen Womack Russia today is like Britain in the Fifties and Sixties: agog at new washing machines, throwing out the old - even hitting the hippie trail

]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/200312010016 http://www.newstatesman.com/200312010016 Mon, 01 Dec 2003 12:00:00 GMT Helen Womack Russians go to the polls in a few days. Moscow's super-rich may give the brutal new consumer culture a vote of confidence, but millions have little to be grateful for

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