With the support of Russian cultural elite, she demanded to be given an opportunity to start a new theater for the children.

Yet in general, even the Russian elite today is having a hard time maintaining old luxuries, given the exorbitant rate of inflation.

They have recently become very popular among the Russian elite.

He became a celebrity throughout Europe and mixed with the Russian intellectual elite.

A Yeltsin adviser said last week that "99.9 percent of the Russian elite is against it."

I note that the Russian political elites have not chosen the path of confrontation and repression.

It is the Russian elite that are guilty of this, a group we have had no hold on.

At the time of the sharp division in the Russian cultural elite, critics came to assume the novel each according to their own current political stand.

The band is best known for its socially conscious songs criticizing Russian political elites and religion.

Here are members of the 19th-century Russian cultural elite in their unguarded folly.