Since certain people on this list continue inventing various social maladies existing in Russia, I thought I would mention a real one:
http://www.rosbaltnews.com/2004/02/02/65471.html
It might help if certain people didn't rely on Northstar Compass (which is published in Canada!) for their Russia-related news. You don't even need to learn Russian to access Gazeta.ru, Rosbalt, RosBusinessConsulting, Interfax, and so on and so forth. It's not hard to do!
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