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Last Updates:11/29/2009 16:37 +0300 |
By John Robles II
You may not copy or republish this material in any
way. However linking to this page would be
appreciated.
There is so much to say and so much to tell about
There are many commercial sites that cater to tourists and
have more information about shows and bars and the like, if
that is what you need read no further.
The information you find here is aimed at Russian speaking
visitors, if you do not speak Russian and are not planning
to learn any, your best advice would be to ask your tour
agency to answer any questions you might have.
Many visitors and co-workers ask me questions about
So without further ado, let us begin. Welcome to
"My heart
felt at peace walking through the Moscow night but
something was missing...I felt slight unease. Then I
realized what it was. I had not heard a siren wailing or a
jet engine's whine overhead since I had left L.A."
JARII on the
quietest metropolis
in the world.
NOTE:
These are some of the headings I am planning to go into in
detail, as well as adding to on a regular basis. If you have
anything you would like to see or have any questions let me
know. Since this is strictly a non-profit, personal effort,
I can only work on this site in my free time so if progress
is slow I apologize. If you would like to donate to this
site to help keep it going
please send an e-mail. John
Flats/Hotels/Living Arrangements
Girls/Girls/Girls
Instructions for
Installing non-Unicode capabilities on Windows
This is
probably the most serious piece of advice I can give you,
and it will make your trip a thousand times easier: learn
some basic Russian before you come here. Unless you are
planning to fork out a huge sum for a translator or planning
to stay in your hotel and do the tourist thing, this is a
must. Not only will people be more receptive to you but it
could make the difference between life and death, in an
extreme situation of course.
I speak fluent Russian and it has helped me with every
aspect of life here. Take the time to study Russian, it is a
beautiful language. Not taking into account the utter
complexity of it.
In my opinion
this is not really a problem anymore if you are
communicating with any of the more populated areas of
Russia. Now I am talking about Russia, not the Ukraine or
anywhere else. There are so many ways to communicate, the
only people with problems in this area might be transients,
the very poor, or people with something to hide. For
you guys the only problem might be lack of Ruski.
Well, you
have arrived. If you have come from the west then you are
probably at Sherymeytova,
Domodedova, or possibly one of
the train stations, probably
Beloruskaya. Now what? You need to get to your hotel.
If you are traveling unescorted, meaning you are not part of
a tour or no one is meeting you, and you know some basic
Russian then the best way to travel would be getting a
private car.
I traveled around in this manner for about three years and
never once had a problem. My only complaints could be these:
drivers, knowing I was a foreigner usually wanted more than
usual, so haggle if you can, an unending stream of obscene
language at other cars by some, and drivers going to slow if
I was in a hurry, sometimes I would have to get out of a car
and change cars because of this if I was late.
Muscovites call this kind of transportation the “Afto-stop”,
all you do is stand by the side of the road and put your arm
straight out at your side. No thumbing, this is not the
States or
If you are a member of the gentler sex, I would recommend
sitting in the back and keeping conversation to a minimum.
Also if you are traveling around alone at night carry some
pepper spray, not difficult to obtain (legal) once you are
here, don’t try to bring it with you from home, oh, and
never get in a car where there are other passengers.
From Sherymeytova to anywhere
in
Once settled into your accommodation use the metro, for
seven rubles you can travel for an unlimited time and
distance. Once you exit you’ll have to pay to re-enter the
system of course. You can buy a monthly pass for about 250
rubles.
Spending a day touring the
It is polite to give up your seat to women, the elderly, and
children. Although his practice has seen a decline in the
last ten years. Another piece of advice when sitting
in the metro keep your feet flat on the ground, some people
can become quite offended if the soles of your shoes are
visible. Also personal stereos turned too loud, eating,
combing hair, cleaning nails, picking teeth can cause
unwanted reactions from the other passengers. Try to be as
non-descript as possible to
avoid problems, if you find someone staring at you, stare
back. I was surprised by some of the long looks I got in the
metro, not rudely so but longer than Americans are used to.
Beggars are a common annoyance also. If you want to give
someone money do so, but be warned many of these people are
organized and make their living in that way. Sounds cold but
it’s true. Also on escalators stay to the right.
Ladies, when traveling in the metro at night keep in mind
that you may be followed, as in any big city in the world.
If you think you are being followed do not leave the
station. Every station is patrolled regularly by the police
and is safe.
The only other thing that I can think of that a foreigner
might find strange is the amount of public drinking and
drunkenness that goes on in the metro and in public here in
Moscow, in St Petersburg it is different but in Moscow it is
almost the rule to see people walking about with open
containers of alcohol and at night people in various stages
of drunkenness. There are as of yet no rules against this.
If you are a foreigner, do so at your own peril!
Busses, what can I say about busses? They are extremely
cheap; you can usually buy a ticket on the bus, and more
times than not you can travel for free if you want to take
the risk of being fined about ten rubles for not having a
ticket.
There are also vans which are called “Marshrut
Taxis”. They follow designated routes and are faster than
the buses, usually costing between five and twenty rubles
and they usually stop anywhere you ask. You can
usually wave one down easily.
“Marshruts” have the
reputation of having extremely high fatality rates when
involved in accidents.
I drive here and
have been doing so for about four years but would not
recommend it for most people. If you are a very experienced
driver, speak decent Russian, and have a Russian driver’s
license, as well as a car registered here, then go for it,
you can’t beat it for the independence it gives you.
At first it would appear that the rules of the road are as
non-existent as the road signs but actually there are many
complex rules, especially when it comes to intersections.
When I had to get my Russian driver’s license I was amazed.
I had a class A CDL with the PTX endorsements in the
The whole process took several months and required getting
special permission from OVIR (this is almost impossible to
get as you are required to have permanent and official
registration or Russian citizenship), then going through the
medical screening process (a day running around after all
the "spravkii", a driving range test, a road test, and a
computer administered exam. Not in that order. The computer
exam was the hardest because you are given twenty minutes to
answer twenty questions, the whole time a policeman stands
behind you looking over your shoulder and if you answer more
than two wrong you are automatically disqualified and have
to wait two weeks to try again. You can fail on nerves
alone. Adding to all that is that all the questions are
formed in such a way as to confuse the examinee.
Even for Russians it is difficult. For example on the screen
there will be a picture of two cars turning at an
intersection, and somewhere in the background there will be
another car making an illegal turn and the answer would be
about the car in the background.
I ended up having to memorize all of the eight hundred
possible questions, in order to pass. After the first
attempt, which I failed, having gone in completely
unprepared, I was given a disc with the same program they
use to administer the exams, and spent two weeks memorizing
everything. After which I passed.
Once you have the driver's license, and are ready to buy a
car, provided you have not driven one here or had one
delivered, those are entirely different topics, you have to
consider the options you have. The considerations that have
to be taken into account are many. One of the most important
being that whatever car you decide to buy, if you are not
registering it through an embassy or a company, may not
legally belong to you.
How can that be? Well it's quite simple. Most people in
Moscow buy cars and operate them using a power of attorney.
This gives you the right to drive the car and complete all
transactions related to its operation. The only problem is
that they are only good for three years and if you decide to
sell the car you could be faced with untold problems. In
theory this should not be but in practice it is. The only
plus is that you can drive a car with standard white plates
and not get stopped all the time by police asking for
documents.
I am jumping the gun a bit, first let's go into the buying
aspect and some of the considerations that should be thought
through. First of course is money, but we will get into
prices later. If money is no object then stop reading and
just go to the nearest Mercedes dealer. Are you going to be
here for a long time? Do you want to take it back home? How
dependant on a car are you? How far are you going to travel
every week? How close are you to the nearest garage that can
service the model of your choice? Are you good at
diagnostics and repair? Do you have the tools and equipment
that you need? Do you have or can you rent an affordable
garage? Is there a secure place to leave the car when you
are not using it?
How long are you planning to stay? If you are here for less
than a year your most economical bet would be buying a used
Russian car. Perhaps renting, which is becoming more and
more affordable.
If you are staying longer and need a car that you can depend
on I would recommend investing in the most solid piece of
equipment that you can afford. The main reason is that the
roads here are not the best in the world, an understatement
of great magnitude, and the climate can eat up a car in a
couple of seasons. If you have ever driven around New York
City, you can expect about the same quality of asphalt
between the pot holes, although it has been getting much
better in the past three years.
Parts and maintenance costs are very high here if you drive
anything other than a Russian car. Despite that fact,
investing in a good solid dependable foreign car, and by
that I mean an American or German car, may still be in your
best bet in the long run.
Most Russians say that buying a used foreign car is better
than buying a new Russian car. I am not sure that I agree,
there are a couple of good models out there. The Niva, for
example, a small boxy jeep, is a durable and versatile
vehicle. Up until recently Nivas were 100% Russian cars but
not long ago Chevrolet took an interest in this particular
model from Lada, and now there are what are called Chevy-Nevas
running around. Not a pretty machine but then again not as
boxy as before. The new Nivas sport a roomier and more
comfortable interior, a more modern design throughout the
chassis and plenty of Chevy bells and whistles. However what
makes a Chevy a Chevy is what is missing, no healthy V-8 or
V-6 for these cars, they are still running around with the
original underpowered 4 bangers just as before and the
inadequately designed suspension parts and running gear.
I could go on and on about different models, pricing and the
like for hours, but that is not the purpose of this
article. The only other thing that I can say about choosing
the right model is that you will pay a disproportionately
higher amount of money in taxes, registration costs, and
perhaps even hidden under the table costs the nicer the
vehicle you buy is.
Will continue later>>>
These are some of the headings I am planning to go into in
detail, as well as adding to on a regular basis. If you have
anything you would like to see or have any questions let me
know. Since this is strictly a non-profit, personal effort,
I can only work on this site in my free time so if progress
is slow I apologize. If you would like to donate to this
site to help keep it going
please send an e-mail. John
Flats/Hotels/Living Arrangements
I recently sent the following to a fellow looking for a
flat:
More
later>>>>>
For those of
you on any kind of a budget forget any idea you may have
about eating out regularly in
The only option you may have if you are out on the town,
other than eating from the kiosks, is McDonald’s. There are
currently 103 McDee’s in
If you are going to stay for more than a month and have
decided to rent an apartment/flat learn to cook! Or hire a
housekeeper/cook for around $200 a month and up.
Where to Shop
Most Muscovites used to shop at the open-air markets but
this is slowly changing as more and more western style
supermarkets are opening up. My favorite is called
Perekrostok (Intersection/Crossroads) and has the best
selection I have seen in Moscow, along with a stable
inventory unlike many other shops and very reasonable
prices. They also have shopping carts and are arranged just
like the supermarkets back home, a rarity in Moscow as most
shops still follow the Soviet format that requires you to
ask a shop attendant for anything you want as everything is
kept out of reach of the shoppers. Another plus for
tourists, you don't have to speak Russian to shop there.
If you are not fortunate enough to have a Perekrostok nearby
or can not find one, then you may be forced to go to one of
the open air markets. A great way to get out among the
people, get some fresh air and practice your Russian. A less
critical audience you will not find. The only drawback, you
may have to visit a different stall, for every item on your
list and lug everything around with you.
Lastly there are little neighborhood markets everywhere,
usually higher priced and under stocked. You will need
Russian at these too.
Worst
Slavic Dishes
This is my list of "never-go-near-or-even-look-at" Slavic
"kitchen", as the Russians call it.
Any advice you receive here is strictly for educational
purposes. I do not condone or support piracy in any way.
(That is my disclaimer!)
Now for the real thing! If you are a computer buff, and find
yourself in
Where to shop? Well the best places are: the “Radio Market”,
at metro Tsaritsino (the green
line),(upstairs), also a good
place for hardware, the computer market at metro
Saveolovskaya (the grey
line)(hardware), the market at Mitino
(Mitinskaya Radio
Renak) metro
Tushinskaya then the bus or
the “Marshrut” (also
hardware), the kiosks at metro (Kuznetsky
Most) near the famous Lyubyanka,
and most metro pedestrian tunnels.
You can find anything. The only problem may be taking them
home, I know that getting discs into
Instructions for Installing non-Unicode capabilities on
Windows
John
When you finish this might help, glue it, tape it, or print
it on sticker paper.
Enjoy
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Russians have
many customs and superstitions, just as all cultures do.
Here are some of the top ones. 1.
Never hand someone something over the threshold of a door.
2.
Never shake hands or kiss over the same. 3.
Men always shake hands in greeting, even casual
acquaintances, if you are sitting, always rise, even
slightly, to do so. 4.
Once you have left a place, if you have forgotten something
and have to return, you must look into a mirror as quickly
as possible upon your return or something bad may happen.
5.
Russians have no problems with opening umbrellas indoors.
6.
Russians are not afraid of the number 13. I live on the
thirteenth floor. 7.
Russians can be very short on the phone, no long goodbyes or
see you laters, most
conversations may end with a short “That’s all”. 8.
Not all Russians drink endless amounts of Vodka. 9.
Being drunk, even at a work party is sociably acceptable.
10.
When giving flowers to women always give an odd number of
flowers, even numbers are for funerals, and yellow flowers
mean you want to break up. 11.
Never leave your keys on the table or you will have an
argument. (Not common) 12.
Never put your feet on the table. 13.
Always take your shoes off when you enter someone’s home.
14.
Never refuse drink or food if you are a guest. 15.
If you are invited to someone’s home, always bring a small
gift, wine or perhaps chocolates. 16.
When a man takes a woman out he must pay for everything, no
matter how much the woman wants to spend. After which the
woman owes the man nothing. Being in their company is seen
as enough, so guys if you take a girl out and you spend two
hundred dollars don’t be surprised if she goes home without
giving you her number or kissing you goodnight. 17.
People here have no problem drinking from the same
container, so if someone asks you for a drink from the
bottle of coke you are holding don’t be shocked, this
happened to me, a group of young people asked me for my
coke, four people drank from it and then they gave it back,
half full. 18.
The word for black people is “Niyeger”
in Russian, if you call someone “black”, and I mean an
African person, it is derogatory. 19.
Russians may live at home well into their late twenties or
early thirties. 20.
Most Russians live in apartment blocks but have dachas,
where they live in the summer. 21.
The majority of Russians take long holidays in the summer.
22.
Most parents send their kids away for the whole summer, not
really important where. 23.
Girls are not supposed to sit at the corner of the table or
they will have great difficulties getting married.
24.
When you get married to a Russian you marry the whole
family, like it or not. 25.
If you go to a Russian church (Pravoslavnaya
Tserkof) don’t plan to take
any naps, there are no seats. All Russians stand in Church,
women must wear a scarf or other headwear on their heads and
should wear a long skirt. 26.
The customer is not always right in
These were some
of my comments on list server I belong to on the subject of
Russian wives and romance.
Dear List,
The more the better! Really! Moscow is not a cheap place to
visit. Current exchange rate about 30R to 1$. There are
exchange points everywhere so you don’t have to find a bank
or worry about it before you come.
Use common sense in all financial transactions and remember
if it sounds too good to be true, IT IS !
Visas
The Embassy
This will be your first contact with Russia and may be the
first time you meet a real Russian person. As you would with
any government office and with any official, behave in a
formal and proper manner. After all, even the girl who asks
you to fill out the visa application may very well have the
power to get you banned for life from getting a Russian
visa.
Again I will re-iterate, learn some Russian, a few well
spoken Russian words during your dealings with the embassy
officials may make the difference between success and
failure.
I should not say the following but it is true and it is part
of reality. A small present may ease the process along. I
knew an American guy who was in Europe and was able to get a
visa for the sole reason that he brought the embassy workers
a carton of cigarettes. At the time you could only get a
visa from an embassy in your home country but as the
financial situation for most Russians was bleak, this
worked. Be careful doing this. Be tactful and don't forget
it may backfire depending on your case.
The
Vital Visa
Current Visa regulations are changing all the time, contact
the nearest Russian embassy.
There have been many changes recently but you can still
get one year commercial visas, of course the average
price is around (contact Embassy for prices). In
practice the only real changes are that the visas are
now glued into your passport pages, unlike the old ones
which were seperate documents, and registration stamps
are also placed in your passport. The changes regarding
immigration cards and the like apply to citizens of
former republics who now have a much harder time obtaing
visas and staying on Russian territory. It is all
political, shortly after Russia proposed revamping visa
regulations the US changed the rules regarding the
issuance of US visas in favour of Russians, which has
made things, if not easier, then at least stable. For
now.
If you have any questions call your local Russian
consulate or see the links in red on this page.
Problems/Emergencies
If you
have a serious problem you may try the embassy, however for
less than extremely serious situations the US embassy is
famous for being less than helpful. They are usually more
interested in collecting information about the people that
ask for help than in actually helping them. They need to add
to your file!
For medical emergencies Russian hospitals will take you in,
money or not. A huge difference from the states! If you can
not speak Russian you can try Doctors Without Borders, if
you have a lot of money call the embassy and they will
direct you to the American Medical Center, western care at
higher than western prices!
If you need dental work here is the place to do it, cheap
quality work, if you go to a Russian clinic. However you
really need to shop around on this one. I can recommend a
dentist who has done wonders for me if you send an e-mail.
There are many new clinics but they are mostly way
over-priced and offer services not much different from what
you will find in Russian hospitals.
Most of the
doors into Russian building are extremely heavy and
difficult to open by US standards.
Always carry your passport and visa with you.
If you see something you like buy it as soon as possible you
may not see it again.
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© 2003-2009 jar2.com
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This report was
e-mailed to me from a trustworthy source it contains
information taken from the semi-annual economic analysis
report on the Russian economy from the ING Russia Fund.
© 2009 jar2.com
Born September 14, 1965, in
Leningrad. Graduated from the law
faculty of Leningrad State University in 1987
and completed his post-graduate studies at
Leningrad State University in 1990. Holds a PhD
in law and the title of associate professor. 1990-1999: Lectured at St
Petersburg State University. At the same time, between
1990-1995, was an adviser to the Chairman of the
Leningrad City Council and an expert consultant
to the St Petersburg City Hall’s Committee for
External Affairs. 1999: Deputy Government
Chief of Staff. 1999-2000: Deputy Chief of
Staff of the Presidential Executive Office. 2000-2003: First Deputy
Chief of Staff of the Presidential Executive
Office. 2000-2001: Chairman of the
Board of Directors of OAO Gazprom, in 2001 –
Deputy Chairman of the Board of Directors of OAO
Gazprom, from June 2002 – Chairman of the Board
of Directors of OAO Gazprom. October 2003-November 2005:
Chief of Staff of the Presidential Executive
Office. In November 2005, appointed
First Deputy Prime Minister. March 2, 2008: Elected
President of the Russian Federation. Married to
Svetlana Vladimirovna Medvedeva. The
Medvedevs have a son, Ilya.
Vladimir Vladimirovich
Putin was born on the 7th
of October 1952 in Leningrad.
Below are some of the
important dates in his life:
1960-68 studied at
school #193, then school #281 and graduated in 1970. During
his school years Putin proved himself to be a remarkable
student especially when it came to studying languages. When
he was 11 he entered a wrestling league, engaged in martial
arts and judo. Putin became a master sportsman and a
champion in Leningrad.
1970 entered juridical
faculty of the Leningrad State University and graduated in
1975. He entered the Communist Party when he was a student
and stayed its member till its prohibition in 1991.
1975-1990 worked in KGB
in the First main directorate (foreign intelligence) and
specialized in German-speaking countries.
Sometime around the end
of ‘70s beginning of 1980s he graduated from the Moscow KGB
Institute.
1981-87 worked in
Germany (watched Russian students, controlled Socialistic
Party of Germany, investigated anti-socialistic acts).
1987-90 worked as an
assistant dean at LSU ( Leningrad State University) with
international contacts (watched foreign students). Putin was
a KGB resident at LSU.
In 1990 Putin became a
councilor of A. Sobchak, president of Lensovet (Leningrad
Central Council).
1991 he was appointed as
president of Exterior contacts committee (ECC) of the city
hall. In the beginning of 1992 he was transferred into
active reserve by the KGB.
1992 he became a
vice-mayor of Saint-Petersburg still staying president of
ECC.
1994, March. Putin was
appointed as the first vice-president of the
Saint-Petersburg government – president of the Exterior
Contacts Committee.
1995, May. He was the
chief of the organizational committee of the OHR’s (Our Home
is Russia – political party) Saint-Petersburg section. In
the summer of 1995 he managed OHR’s electoral campaign.
1996, He joined the
Saint-Petersburg headquarters of the Russian movement of the
social support of the President (RMSSP), which united
organizations supporting the re-election of Boris Yeltsin.
In the spring of 1996
Putin worked with Sobchak’s electoral campaign. When Sobchak
lost, Putin retired from all his positions. Soon he received
an invitation from P. Borodin, one of the Yeltsin’s
managers, to be his deputy. He accepted it and worked in
this position from June of 1996 till March of 1997.
1997, March. Putin
became vice-president of the President’s Administration. In
June he retired from the OHR.
1998, July Putin was
designated to the position of the director of FSB.
1998, March he became
the secretary of the Security Council of Russia.
1998, August he became
the chairman of the Government of the RF
1999, December – 2000,
March he took over the duties of president of the Russian
Federation from an ailing, and by then, completely
ineffective Boris Yeltsin.
2000, March he became
the President of Russia.
2003
September www.JAR2.com publishes Putin’s biography
translated from original in Russian, and wonders why Putin
doesn’t make the horrible slips of the tongue Bush does.
President of Russia in 1991 - 1999 Mr
Yeltsin was born on February 1, 1931, in Sverdlovsk Region.
After graduating from the Urals Polytechnic Institute in
1955, Mr Yeltsin worked for 30 years in the Sverdlovsk
Region, eventually becoming first secretary of the
Sverdlovsk Regional Committee of the Soviet Communist Party.
Mr Yeltsin was then transferred to Moscow, where he headed
the Soviet Communist Party Central Committee's construction
department. He became secretary of the Central Committee,
and then first secretary of the Moscow City Communist Party
Committee. In 1987, Mr Yeltsin was dismissed from his posts
and returned to the political scene only in March 1989, when
he won more than 80 percent of the vote in the country's
first democratic elections and was elected a Soviet people's
deputy. In 1990, he was elected chairman of the Russian
Supreme Council and that same year declared that he was
leaving the Communist Party. On 12 June, 1991, Mr Yeltsin
was elected first president of the Russian Federation in a
national election, winning more than 50 percent of the vote
in the first round. Mr Yeltsin was re-elected president on
July 3, 1996, winning almost 54 percent of the vote in the
second round. On December 31, 1999, Mr Yeltsin signed a
decree announcing that he was stepping down from his post as
president. Boris Yeltsin died on April 23, 2007 of a heart
attack.
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GDP - per capita:
GDP - composition
by sector:
Population below
poverty line:
Household income or consumption
by percentage share:
Distribution of family income -
Gini index:
Inflation rate (consumer prices):
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Oil -
production:
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Oil - exports:
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Natural gas - proved reserves:
Agriculture - products:
Exports:
Exports - commodities:
Exports - partners:
Imports:
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Imports - partners:
Debt - external:
Economic aid - recipient:
Currency:
Currency
code:
Exchange rates:
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Telephones - main lines in use:
Telephones - mobile cellular:
Telephone system:
Radio broadcast stations:
Television broadcast stations:
Internet country code:
Internet Service Providers (ISPs):
Internet users:
Railways:
Highways:
Waterways:
Pipelines:
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Merchant marine:
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Military manpower - military age:
Military manpower - availability:
Military manpower - fit for military
service:
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annually:
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Disputes international:
Illicit drugs:
This information was last
updated August 1, 2003 and was taken from the CIA's World
Factbook. It is in the public domain.
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