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Am Russian and as we say here "The strictness of law is compensated by lack of need to follow it"

I mean, pretty many of popular sites are blocked but it doesnt affect them

The latest campaign of government against Telegram messenger to block it resulted only in its increased popularity among Russian users

Privet from your Russian reader:) any chance of NoodleRemover to be reborn in any form?

As a Russian I ll try to answer instead of Fyodor. After Bellingcat investigations (and couple of others) I think almost everyone who followed the story on media are sure that it was Putins agents (we even have their names - Chepiga ana Mishkin). Even couple of my friends who are not political usually say that this is a ridiculous story.

I would be happy to answer you, but I was born after the Soviet Union fell. Based on my knowledge about life in SU I'd say that things become better, as market economy allowed firms from all the world to do business 8n Russia.

Plus Moscow and St Petersburg (Piter, as we call it) have large budgets (especially Moscow as a capital) to keep the cities clean. However, Moscow city policies and its corrpution were in the focus of Alexey Covalev investigations, he has found a lot of interesting information

Same as everywhere, passion I suppose. Plus, as I am a Russian myself, you sort of get used to pressure on the society from government. Personalities such as Alexey Navalny experience a lot more pressure than many of the journalists in Russia.