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    Russia's Golden Ring. Ancient Cities of Russia

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    The Education System of Russia

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    Online Education

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    Viktor Pelevin. A Contemporary Russian Author

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    Pelevin's new novel "Nepobedimoye Solntse". A YouTube recording of an Echo of Moscow Show

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    The "Satori" Generation of Russia

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    Russian Hospitality

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    Minimum Wage in Russia

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    Nepotism in Russia

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    Can Russia survive without immigrants?

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    An interview with the director of the End of Era

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    The Oppression of Opposition

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    A former US Ambassador on Putinism

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    Russians on Putinism

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    The United Russia. The party of Putin

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    The Foreign Agent Law against the Opposition

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    What Americans and Russians think about each other

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    The Russian Bank System

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    Small Business in Russia

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    Dutch Disease in Russia

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    Vision of the Russian economy

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    Cyberattacks as a New Weapon

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    Russian Internet Bots cause conflicts in the American society

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    Russian Internet Troll Factories

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    Interview with a Russan Opposition Leader Liubov Sobol

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    A Russian Entrepreneur Rybakov

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    Systematic Problems with Russian Healthcare

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    Russian Opposition Leader Navalny on Degraded Russian Healthcare System

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    Advocacy Advertisement in Russia

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    Freedom of Religion in Russia

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    Environmental Problems in Russia

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    Russia Ratifies The Paris Agreement

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    On Decreasing Popularity of Nuclear Energy

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    Ministry of Culture of Russia

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    A Russian Traditional Dance

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    Biggest Russian Cities

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    Quality of life ratings of Russian cities

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    Saint Petersburg vs Moscow culture in Shnur's Songs

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    Why don't provincial people like Moscow?

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    Russian Journalist Irina Khakamada

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    The homeless in Russia

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    Why do people need children?

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    Is a college degree necessity or waste of time?

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    National Project "Education"

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    Education Federal Law

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    Russians on how many years they would want to live with Putin as the president

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    Don't call him "Dimon"

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    Channel 1 Russia

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    Is Sugar really that harmful?

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    Ecology in Russia

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    Russian Society for Nature Presevation

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    Russian Socio-Ecological Union

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    Ministry of Natural Resources and Ecology

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    Krasnaya Kniga

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    Consequences of the global warming

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    How many religious people there are in Russia?

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    Freedom of the press in Russia

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    The Press Freedom Index. Russia has been rated 155th

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    Anna Politkovskaya and her investigative journalism

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    I am Ivan Golunov: the story of Ivan Golunov

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    Arkadiy Raikin. A Soviet Comedian

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    "Satirikon" Theater

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    Who is Yevgeny Prigozhin (Putin's chef)?

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    Kaspersky is accused of spying computers

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    Mariinsky Theater

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    The Demography National Project

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    Income Inequality

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    Interview with Guriev, a prominent Russian economist

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    Business Angels

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    What are the sanctions on Russia and are they hurting its economy?

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    Russian Economy 2022

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    The History of Russian Theater

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    Electrotheater Stanislavskiy

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    Interview with Boris Yukhamnov, direct of Electrothater Stanislavsky

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    Interview with Yuriy Solomin, direct of Maliy Thater

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    Russian Dacha

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    Gender inequality in Russia

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    Why femenism is not popular in Russia

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    Domestic Violence

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    Censorship in Russia

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    Russian News Websites Ranking

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    A podcast about Russian

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    Meduza the podcast

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    Who owns mass media in Russia?

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    Russian Top Journalist 2021

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    The impact of social media on society in Russia

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    Russian Church Photographs

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    Inside the Russian Church

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    Islam is getting stronger in Russia

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    Money or health? What if the hospital refuses to treat for free?

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    BBC Russia Science

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    Stem Cell Treatment

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    Pros and Cons of Vegetarianism

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    Vegetarians have higher chance of stroke

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    Russian Cooking Show

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    A History Of The Russian Internet

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    Why financial sanctions might be the strongest weapon in the fight against the Russian regime

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    Russia counterattacks to the sanctions

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    U.S. - Russia relations, one year after Geneva

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    The results of the year of ecology

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    Russian non-profit organization "There is no dirt here”

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    Lake Baikal environmental issues

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    Chernobyl HBO Series Review

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    Russian Ghost Towns

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    Forgotten villages of the Urals. Is there life in abandoned places?

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    Forest Fires in Yakutiia

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    The Great Sochi Flood

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    How Russian Schools and Syllabi changed after 1917

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    Prejudices and stereotypes

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    A Nike Creative Commercial

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    The Decline of Russian Tourism 2022

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    Dagestan

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    Vladimir Pozner

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    An Interview with Vladimir Pozner

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    Habib's Website

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    Interview with Tina Kandelaki

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    Tina Kandelaki's Biography

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    Viktor Tsoy. Zvesda po Imeni Solntse

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    Jazz in the Soviet Union

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    Social Media in Russia

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    Social Distancing on Social Media

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    IZOisolation Project

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    IZOisolation Documentary

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    Where do Russians read news?

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    Interview with Ivan Golunov

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    Most popular news websites in Russia 2022

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    Sergei Eisenstein, a movie revolutionist

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    Battleship Potemkin, a movie by Eisenstein

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    SHORT STORIES. Comedy Drama

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    Emigrants in Putin's Russia

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    Yavlinskii on the brain drain

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    Why Russian don't like Immigrants?

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    How Ministry of Health presents information on COVID-19

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    The reasons and consequences of income inequality in Russia

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    How the most expensive neighborhood of Moscow looks like

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    Provincial Barracks

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    Quality of life in Russia 2022

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    The best and worst Russian regions

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    RBK quality of life ranking

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    RBK quality of life ranking. Statistics

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    Business in Russia

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    25 interesting facts about Silicon Valley

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    Russian Silicon Valley

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    Russian women in Silicon Valley

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    EcoPortal: Ecology of Russia

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    The summary of the 17th Putin's Press Conference

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    Putin's Press Conference 2021 Excerpts

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    Daria Navalnaia's Speech at The European Parliament

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    Daria Navalnaia accepts the award for her father Alexey

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    United Russia and how Putin uses it

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    Foreign Agent Law in Russia

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    Anti-Corruption Fund

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    How Anti-Corruption Fund works

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    About Alexey Navalny

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    Russian-American Relations

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    US policies to Russia

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    Increasing number of foreign agents

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    Foreign policy of Putin and Yeltsin

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    Russia might not be as different from the USSR

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    Childfree: free of children or forever children themselves?

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    Cybersecurity can't keep up with the attackers

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    Russian hackers pwned Microsoft

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    American senators proposed the most radical sanctions against Russia

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    Russian Political System

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    The constitution amendments 2020

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    Navalny’s commentary on the constitution amendments 2020

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    The Map of Arctic

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    Russian Arctic

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    Arctic: The competition for resources and influence

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    The US, Russia, and China in Arctic

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    Top books 2021

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    An Overview of the 20th Century Russian Art

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    Mayakovsky. Oblako v shtanakh

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    Vera Polozkova. Bernard is writing to Ester

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    Dmitriy Vodennikov. Tak Dymno Zdes'

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    Habib comments on the situation in France

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    Aron Konchalovsky’s “Dorogie Tovarischi” trailer

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    Five habits of an educated person

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    How Nikita Mikhalkov made movies?

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    Nikita Mikhalkov's Biography

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    Pros and Cons of Online Education

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    What is Maslenitsa?

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    Russian Brain Drain. Where and why do specialist flee?

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    Lake Baikal

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    Best places in Siberia

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    Navalny on average wages in Russia

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    Poverty in Russia

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    Russian Retirement Benefits System

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    Retirement Benefits System Reforms 2018

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    Manizha - Russian Woman

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    The UN against violence towards journalists

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    Office of the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media

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    Russia is reading for childfree to become illegal

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    Russian Investors on Wall Street

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    Russian Operations in Syria

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    How Russia embraces Islam

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    Nevzorov's 100 Influential Books

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    Stem Cells

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    Govenrment wants monopoly on stem cell treatment

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    Test Purchase (TV show)

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    Edim Doma (TV show)

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    Wild Fiers in Siberia

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    A 6.1 Magnitude Earthquake in Japan

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    The Russian Education System before the revolution

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    Russian-Chinese Cybersecurity

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    Russian Force undercover in the Kaspersky's Lab

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    Russian Regions

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    Wanted Russian Oligarchs

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    Russian Ministers Ranking

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    Russian Hockey Player Ovechkin's Biography

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    Russian celebrities are against the war in Ukraine

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    The Security Council of Russia Meeting Results

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    What China thinks about the war in Ukraine?

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    Russia, China and the Ukrainian Crisis

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    Xi Jinping's Speech at the 25th Saint Petersburg Economic Forum

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    Levada Center's Electoral Ratings of the political parties

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    "United Russia" will check and expand its database of members

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    Foreign Agent Law in Russia

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    Top 6 social media websites in Russia 2022

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    Top 6 social media websites in Russia 2022

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    How Social Media Market change in Russia in March 2022

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    David Backham gives his 71.5m instagram account to a Kharkov doctor

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    Ilia Krasilshik starts a service that supports the victims of Russian repressions

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    Doping in Russian sport

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    RBK's quality of of life of the regions ranking

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    The Prospects of the relations between Russia and China

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    The Natural Resource Curse

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    "Lessons from Chernobyl" Documentary

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