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syslog wasn't dealing with it because all of this output was written in .xsession-errors in user's homedir (which was not rotated btw)

>20% of Russians lack indoor plumbing

That's an incorrect translation, widly used by propaganda. In the original report it was not "indoor plumbing", but "connection to centralized city sewage system".

>How Runet Became an Appendage of the Great Firewall of China

That's a huge overstatement. Maybe in some border region some traffic was router through Chinese uplink, but in general Russian and Chinese networks are connected very loosely. My ping to Chinese sites from European part of Russia is around 260 ms, which is two times more than ping to even US sites. Same for ping to China from Western Siberia.

In terms of internet connectivity, China is even more distant from Russia, than South America.

>The Russian economy is dependent on continued military buildup

That's a myth that economy can improve by military spendings. It boosts production and investments in the moment, but in the long run it sucks resources out of economy. USSR failed precisely because of dozens of years long high military spendings

We do. And my VPN is not even turned on now to write this comment

Nokia phones ran mostly on SymbianOS

Yes. If you are, for example, even a US citizen, permanently living in Crimea, you are still subject to limitations, imposed by sanctions.