By hosting a pavilion again this year, Russia continues its efforts to shed its status as a cultural and sporting pariah.

The first episode is entitled "Out of the Forest", describing how the Russian people under Ivan the Terrible emerged from their wooded subjugation by the Mongols, but the story Graham-Dixon starts ...

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