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...ugly Soviet apartment buildings - ну это обязательная программа, как в фигурном катании.
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It was a traditional Russian restaurant, with a dining room done up like a parlor from the early 1900s, complete with bentwood chairs and a vintage globe that showed Alaska as part of Russia. Savchuk’s 5-year-old son sat next to her, slurping down a bowl of ukha, a traditional fish soup. - slurping, aha.
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“You see these people with a lot of tattoos. They’re so cool, like they’re from New York; very hip clothing, very hip tattoos, like they’re from Williamsburg. But they are stupid.” - surely no stupid people in Williamsburg.
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Savchuk and her co-workers would post comments that disparaged the Ukrainian president, Petro Poroshenko, and highlighted Ukrainian Army atrocities. - highlighted, not invented, interestingly enough.
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In February, she leaked it all to a reporter for Moi Raion, a local newspaper known for its independent reporting. - hmm, independent reporting in totalitarian Russia? and she even was not arrested? didn't have to emigrate like one Snowden guy?

...Volodin installed in his office a custom-designed computer terminal loaded with a system called Prism, which monitored public sentiment online using 60 million sources. - is the author of this article a plain imbecile i wonder? has he ever heard about this Prism?
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“The myth that the Internet is controlled by the opposition is very, very old,” says Leonid Volkov, a liberal politician and campaign manager to Alexei Navalny. “It’s not true since at least three years.” Part of this is simple demographics: The Internet audience has expanded from its early adopters, who were more likely to be well-educated liberal intelligentsia, to the whole of Russia, which overwhelmingly supports Putin. - умри, Денис - лучше не скажешь.
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Soshnikov is an indefatigable reporter: During one investigation, he had gone so far as to create a 3-D computer model of a roadway in order to calculate how much asphalt had been stolen during its construction. - no comments

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