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Russian government officials are obliged to put all their purchases on the online tender platform.

So they are using this trick (but in the opposite direction, latin `a` instead of cyrillic `а`) to avoid undesired competitors from entering those biddings and lowering the purchase prices (and not paying kickbacks, obviously). https://navalny-en.livejournal.com/52565.html

parent kirushik 12 years ago

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