The Secretary and the Reset Button (A case for promoting U.S. Russian language study)

[Sarah Hurst]

Is it really true that Condoleezza Rice has claimed to have read Tolstoy in
Russian, or just Tolstoy in translation? According to this article, she
preferred Dostoevsky:

http://www.nationalreview.com/flashback/nordlinger200411170605.asp

Has she even claimed to speak fluent Russian? She studied Soviet politics
but I've never seen any evidence that she studied Russian seriously. So why
attack her for not speaking Russian? I don't even like her but this seems
like an unfair criticism.

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