Russia’s palatial institution is now the second largest in the world, with an impressive collection of three million objects ...

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Author and WSJ Chief Foreign Affairs correspondent, Yaroslav Trofimov, joins Morning Joe to discuss his debut novel inspired by the life of his grandmother, 'No Country for Love'.

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