Mount McKinley was known to Russians as Bulshaia and to the natives of CookInlet as Traleyka. Both namessignify 'high' or 'big mountain.' The natives of the interiorknow it as Denali.
“We imagine that the Russians and the Chinese are going to play slowball here,” said a seniorofficialinvolved in the sanctionstalks.
In the earlypost-Sovietyears the Russianelite was divided into liberal westernisers and pragmaticnationalists.