: a Russian country cottage used especially in the summer
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Assad may melt away into exile in a lavish row of Moscow dachas, and his hollow autocracy may crumble fast.
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Nick Paton Walsh, CNN, 7 Dec. 2024
The retreat’s history as a vacation destination for Russia’s top officials dates back to the time of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, who had a dacha – or summer house – built in the area, according to the Russian Presidential Property Management Department, the body that manages the holiday complex.
—Ivana Kottasová, CNN, 19 July 2024
Putin could then be forced to retire, like Khrushchev, to a dacha in the countryside.
—Scott D. Sagan, Foreign Affairs, 16 Mar. 2022
Then, without warning, a delegation of Kremlin hard-liners from the military and the K.G.B. arrived at the door of his dacha, having cut off his phones.
—Marilyn Berger, New York Times, 30 Aug. 2022
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Nick Paton Walsh, CNN, 7 Dec. 2024
The retreat’s history as a vacation destination for Russia’s top officials dates back to the time of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, who had a dacha – or summer house – built in the area, according to the Russian Presidential Property Management Department, the body that manages the holiday complex.
—Ivana Kottasová, CNN, 19 July 2024
Putin could then be forced to retire, like Khrushchev, to a dacha in the countryside.
—Scott D. Sagan, Foreign Affairs, 16 Mar. 2022
Then, without warning, a delegation of Kremlin hard-liners from the military and the K.G.B. arrived at the door of his dacha, having cut off his phones.
—Marilyn Berger, New York Times, 30 Aug. 2022
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“Dacha.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dacha. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.
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