Svetlana

Fifty-five-year-old Svetlana also was worried about the threat of violence but highlighted economic worries as deciding her vote.

Her red-haired friend Svetlana chimed in, “Between two evils we choose Russia.”

His wife, Raisa (and later, First Lady Svetlana Medvedeva), favored the designer and his pieces.

Three years ago I met Svetlana Gorohovik, a young activist, at the prayer meeting outside the Red Church.

“Otherwise, he said, he would take the child away,” Svetlana reports.