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• n  Russian country house

• A dacha need not be grand: a peasant's hut qualifies as a dacha when one room or a veranda is rented to a summer tourist.
• Platon for PTI This may explain why there is so little visible security at Putin's dacha, Novo-Ogarevo, the grand Russian presidential retreat set inside a birch- and fir-forested .
• When you arrive at the dacha's faux-neoclassical gate, you have to leave your car and hop into one of the Kremlin's vehicles that slowly wind their way through a silent forest of .

News & Articles

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• Dacha Releases Audited Consolidated Financial Statements for the Year Ended March 31, 2013
  Dacha Releases Audited Consolidated Financial Statements for the Year Ended March 31, 2013
  July 29, 2013 - CNW Group via Yahoo! Finance

Quotes

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• Stephen Poliakoff in Independent
  They were starving in their dacha in the country,says Poliakoff, "because they couldn't grow any food, and a commissar of labourers broke down outside their door. He came in and said, 'Can I use the telephone?' and my grandfather showed...
• Gennady Zyuganov in Financial Times
  Let Medvedev work if he is supported by Putin,said Gennady, a pensioner. "We need stability . . I have a bank account. It is collecting interest. I have a flat. I bought a dacha. Why do we need something new? We don't need anything new."