potemkin
puh tem kin
- n a Russian officer and politician who was a favorite of Catherine II and in 1762 helped her to seize power; when she visited the Crimea in 1787 he gave the order for sham villages to be built (1739-1791)
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News & Articles
- Mayor Bach’s Potemkin village
It was fascinating, if not exactly enlightening, to see the northeast corner of Acacia Park turned into our very own Potemkin village on Wednesday afternoon. A press release described the event in glowing terms. “The City of Colorado Springs, Colorado Springs Utilities, Downtown Partnership, Colorado Springs Convention & Visitors Bureau, and Colorado Springs Urban Intervention [...]
June 7, 2013 - Colorado Springs Business Journal
Quotes
- Andrea Mitchell in New York Times
As Andrea Mitchell of NBC News said, it was "the Potemkin village of victory celebrations." - Charles Goodhart in Times Online
We are currently in a Potemkin recovery - more appearance than reality,Professor Charles Goodhart told The Times yesterday, in reference to the fake "Potemkin villages" constructed in 18th-century Russia to deceive Empress Catherine II. - Joe Lieberman in Seattle Times
I worry that would create a kind of Potemkin national intelligence director, where you see the facade but there's not real authority behind it,said Lieberman, whose panel held one of two Capitol Hill hearings on intelligence reform.