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A few hours before Vladimir Putin gave his 2014 new year’s speech, a shadowy group calling itself Shaltai Boltai — the Russian for Humpty Dumpty, the nursery rhyme character – beat the Russian president to it by posting the text online.

“We’re always with you, even when you least suspect it,” the anonymous bloggers wrote.

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