| http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#value | - Siberia's prison past has shaped many non-Siberian Russians' notions about the place, and these notions belie comparisons with the American West. (Unlike the Wild West, which is long gone, Siberia is a place with which millions of Russians alive today have or have had direct experience.) Since its conquests by Cossacks in the sixteenth century, Siberia has been a land of internal exile and stockad
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