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Many public statements by Russian leaders today shock "not so much by their reactionary quality... but by their illiteracy," the result, Vladimir Pastukhov says, of the unleashing by the Kremlin of "a mechanism of 'the de-civilization' of Russian society, which, if extraordinary measures are not taken in time could turn out to be irreversible." 

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