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“…Передача Российской государственной телевизионной и радиовещательной компании (РГТРК) "Останкино" (Москва, Российская Федерация) была записана группой мониторинга Исследовательского Института радиостанции Свободная Европа/Свобода (Мюнхен) как часть проекта по анализу официальных средств информации стран бывшего Советского Союза. Discussion of sociology of business and entrepreneurship; interview with the film director Svetlana Druzhinina. …”

“…The Hell with it All, Let's Unite in Stupidity / by Feliks[from: Tygodnik Mazowsze, no. 152 (3 January 1985)]These are notes taken by "Feliks" at a panel discussion on youth, organized by the Polish Sociological Society in Warsaw on 13 and 14 December 1985. …”

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