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Russia: AK-47 & Copyright; Time Zones

Eternal Remont writes about “copyright protection for the AK-47″; FP's Passport writes about plans to cut the 7-hour time difference between Moscow and Vladivostok to 4 hours. ...full story at Global Voices

from Global Voices on Tue, Nov 03 2009

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