He has promised to start learning Russian and in a letter to journalists gushed with praise for his new society, RIA Novosti reported.

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Kennan spent two years in Berlin, learning Russian at Friedrich Wilhelm (now Humboldt) University and taking classes in Russian history at the University of Berlin.

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"I'm settling in very well and learning Russian, " he said.

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He penned a heartbroken obituary on learning about the death on the Russian front of Karl-Heinz Bremer, the charming associate director of the German Institute in Paris and heart-throb of many a collabo homosexual.

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