Russia Today
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Three journeys across 11 cities in 1995, 2005 and 2015 use a prototype digital camera, a MacBook-hosted real-time website and later iPhone photos to document ordinary Russians; the same anecdote about bears in the streets appears in six places. Findings: broad pro-Putin sentiment outside Moscow and St. Petersburg, people blame the West for economic pain, gay life is tolerated privately but not publicly, and many young Russians are health-conscious, entrepreneurial and learning English or Chinese.
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