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Major new project launched to collect and preserve poems in endangered languages
A major new project has been launched in London to collect and preserve poems in endangered languages; with the 00th anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution approaching, Jamie Coomarasamy has been travelling between St Petersburg and Moscow, talking to a wide range of Russians about their attitudes towards the past and present. Presenter Anu Anand discusses these stories with guests Judy Dempsey, a Senior Fellow at Carnegie Europe, and Ian Black, a visiting senior fellow at Middle East Centre at the London School of Economics.