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and home to just under a million people, became an anomalous and relatively free political space under
Chirkunov. While the Kremlin crushed opposition parties and independent media, "in Perm artists were encouraged to experiment, journalists could criticize, and visitors might think they were in
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Despite this history, Chirkunov left a mark as a reform-minded governor of Perm. He commissioned Marat Gelman, a prominent political scientist and art curator, to oversee "Project Perm" and revitalize the city to become a
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