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Shoigu Takes United Russia's Dance to Perm.
(From The Moscow Times)
PERM, Ural Mountains -- With a healthy dose of populism, Sergei Shoigu took the United Russia show to Perm on Friday, showing off his soccer skills and offering a vision of Russia's future geography that could make for some nervous neighbors.
"In the end, I hope we live to see the day when we will again have a huge country within the borders of the Soviet Union," said Shoigu, emergency situations minister and No. 2 on the federal list of the pro-Kremlin party.
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The statement at the Perm Drama Theater was met with resounding applause from the crowd of 1,000 that was bused in to support the unification of the Perm region and its smaller neighbor, the Komi-Permyak autonomous district. A referendum on unification will be held next Sunday, the same day as the State Duma elections.
Shoigu, one of Russia's most popular politicians, traveled to this industrial city of 1 million in the southern foothills of the Urals to stump for United Russia ahead of the elections. But his expansionist pronouncement left journalists puzzled about what exactly he meant by "within the borders of the Soviet Union."
At the press conference following the speech, he didn't exactly clear things up, saying only that he was talking about reunification in geographical terms, not political.
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