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11. TikTok Gets Cultured

TikTok isn’t just for kiddies these days. The video streaming platform offers a range of people, such as those of Russia’s many ethnic groups, the opportunity to educate others about their cultures.

Tags: national geographic, social media, TikTok, ethnic minority, ethnic group, ethnicity, culture, Udmurtia, udmurts, avars, khanty
12. A Bare Cat-art-strophe in Kazan

An indignant social media user called out an artist for her choice of subject in the heart of Kazan, but there’s another side to the story – a backside, if you will.

Tags: artwork, painting, naked, social media, kazan, artist, art
13. Being the Face Sans Facebook

"The president’s website is working. There are no problems.”

– On October 4 Press Secretary for the President of Russia Dmitry Peskov reassured the public that not even Facebook can take down the President’s site.
Tags: Internet, social media, instagram, whatsapp, facebook, president, website, putin, peskov
14. Pelevin Perplexes

After twenty years outside the public eye, celebrated author Viktor Pelevin comes to Moscow to greet fans and sign books. Or does he?

Tags: social media, media, science fiction, mystery, author, fantasy
15. What's Worse: Unsympathetic Aliens or Interfering AI?

"The App Store portal: who regulates it? Artificial intelligence, people from Mars?”

– Andrei Klimov, seeking to understand what’s going on behind the scenes with Apple’s App Store on September 17.
Tags: smart voting, voting, navalny, social media, google, apple, sovereignty, duma, elections
16. Duct-Taped and Speeding

A young Russian blogger and his accomplice published a video of vehicular hooliganism on September 1.

Tags: sports car, abortion, duct tape, arrest, cars, extreme bloggers, blogger, social media
17. Teach a Man to Phish

“Don't believe it, don't click it, don't pay!”

– Sergey Volodkhin, director of the Russian company “Antiphishing,” explaining how online scammers bait their hooks,
Tags: messenger, social media, phishing, fraud, crime
18. Cloudy With a Chance of Milkshakes

A usual weather phenomenon called "Milky Rain" occurred recently in the Moscow region, but it wasn't nearly as delicious as it sounds. 

Tags: social media, mystery, weather, Moscow
19. Congrats to Mikhail Kubar!

A Yakut school's graduating class consisted of only one student, which means he receives all of our congratulations.

Tags: social media, education, school, yakutia
20. Drop and Give Me Fifty, Mr. Mayor

It's not very often that you see the mayor of a city get punished by a group of school-age children, but that's exactly what happened in Krasnoyarsk when mayor Sergei Eryomin lost a challenge.

Tags: politics, social media, school, children, technology, Krasnoyarsk

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