| In the Soviet period and for most families today, the most important real property consists of apartments and dachas. |
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| On the weekends, basking in the late May sunshine, Moscow appears nearly deserted with crowds of city-dwellers leaving for their dachas. |
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| All along the road from the airport to downtown people were planting potatoes and other staples at their dachas, their outlying summer homes. |
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| To see the new Russians in their element, you have to drive outside of Moscow to the exclusive residential areas where they have their dachas. |
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| I walked down the lane, passing the big dachas until I came to one where, inside the square yard, a woman appeared. |
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| The nomenklatura might have been prepared to surrender the Soviet state without a fight, but not their dachas. |
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| A man may boast of his home as his castle, but Russians are increasingly turning to building country homes and dachas that are plain, economical and rather small. |
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| What were once rustic wooden dachas have deteriorated into shacks. |
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| The full range of vices attributed to decadent Roman emperors was to be found in the private dachas and public buildings of 1930s and 1940s Russia. |
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| Dachas also played a major role in the conflict between then-President Boris Yeltsin and Ruslan Khasbulatov, chairman of the Supreme Soviet. |
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