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onetime,December 2025
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Smoky Gladiolus

I am a schoolgirl in America, was born here and have never been abroad. I hope I wrote something readable (I've been sitting for 40 minutes, struggling with an unfamiliar Russian keyboard, heh). A couple of years ago I noticed that I read (and generally speak) Russian with great difficulty. I decided to look into Russian news, and stumbled upon Meduza (it was one of the few Russian-language websites unblocked on the school computer). At first I just scrolled through the Shapito page, but then out of boredom I switched to reading the news. I never imagined what it's like to live in a country, where opposition members are beaten, imprisoned for decades, killed. Where independent sources of information are called foreign agents. Where one has to fully fight for the truth. You can call it teenage naivety, but someday I want to answer the "call of ancestors" and visit Russia, freed from oligarchs and totalitarianism. Although I have no funds for donation, I hope that you will support this brave, and in such times necessary publication.

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