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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with During the Americanization of Russian popular culture in the 1990s, the meaning of the word класс (pronounced kl-ah-ss) was dismantled – reformed was the political term in fashion then. The word had come into the Russian language when Tsar Peter the Great (1682-1725) borrowed it from the German, French,  and Latin […]