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7 See Verdery 1993 for a description of these practices elsewhere in Eastern Europe.

8 See Goscilo 1995 for a discussion of these attitudes in the 1970s.

9 Alaina Lemon has described (1995, 2000) these racialized essentialisms from the ethnographic perspective of Roma in Russia.

10 In May 1998, an American Marine of African-American heritage was severely beaten by a group of neo-Nazis while shopping at an outdoor compact disk market in Moscow (see also Shulyakovskaya 1998).

11 Racialized attacks have become so pervasive in Moscow that it is on an almost weekly basis that members of the COM congregation report violent acts perpetrated against them or their friends. In response to the frequency and brutality of these incidents, CCM staff have begun working closely with local and national authorities to publicize this problem and to influence authorities to prevent future incidents.

12 Because these practices preceded any sense of familiarity or intimacy between recipients and volunteers, I do not see them as part of the money-avoidance techniques described by Lemon 1998 or Pesmen 2000.

13 Aleksandra Petrovna keeps photographs of her two biological sons at home but not in the album she carries with her.