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World Service,08 Dec 2000,25 mins

A Russian Puzzle

Arts In Action

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Mikhail Shishkin's 'The Taking Of Ismail' is the surprise winner of the Smirnoff-Booker Prize, plus London's extended British Museum opens to the public and Russia's parliament rules on the new national anthem.

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