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Putin has launched his corruption politic only against people who operate against him. He has never touch his own environment by this way eliminating his opposition and enemy and only increasing his power and influence.In fact, anyone who told something against Putin dismiss from position immediately, moreover, it makes public on media channels and sense that struggleagainst corruption works. In Russia corruption is daily phenomenon and it is difficult to image that people can do anything without bribes.

Didomyk in reply to Alinka130590

An example of how media publicity is stage-managed in Russia for political gain was Gazprom's premature public announcement last week about immediate start of the South Stream project even though vital EU approvals of the route and environmental Black Sea coast related issues are still pending.
One suggested reason is that Russia's publicity move was related to a EU probe accusing Gazprom of anti-competitive practices in supplying gas to Central and Eastern Europe. GAZPROM'S Miller wanted to show Putin that he could retalliate.
Russian government has apparently decided to show that they can do it their way by dealing directly with transit countries like Bulgaria, Serbia and Austria where the pipe will be built, instead of the European Commission that has overall legislative powers. The EU states are expected to submit documents to Brussels in February, 2013 and the EU commission then will have nine months to raise its doubts and concerns. Gazprom will have to wait another year.
Also a detailed plan for the entire route must be submitted to Brussels, which must approve environmental and social impact studies by national regulators in each EU country.
Gazprom's push to announce the start of pipeline construction could have been related to Putin's 'order' that construction should begin by the end of 2012. To preserve Putin's prestige domestically Gazprom arranged a public 'startup', even though actual pipeline construction is not in the cards.
Its nothing more than a political attempt (another Russian "Potiomkin Village" scheme) to preserve the Kremlin's domestic and international credibility.

kuzmich in reply to Didomyk

Didomyk, I understand your continuous indignation and your appeal to Brussels for procrastination. According to you, EU red tape is even worse than in Russia. Now it’s clear why NABUCCO has been delayed and still under a question. However, Ukraine gains nothing from either of projects. I like you being acrimonious. South Stream is on the way to Europe. And it’s in Europe’s interest especially in global climate changing. You can warm yourself up with horilka.

Didomyk in reply to kuzmich

NABUCCO offers supply diversification, my friend ! End of GAZprom monopoly ! End of price manipulations ! It will also bury once and for all Gazprom dreams of controlling gas distribution systems in Central and Western Europe. Try and learn more about the significance of the term "competition" in economic development. Competition will be good for Russia too. Trust me !

Didomyk in reply to Didomyk

Apart from Kremlin's grandiose media publicity about Gazprom's long promised (but so far fictional) South Stream project under the Black Sea to the Bulgarian coast (read my other post above), it has become known that not long ago Putin has also decided that Gazprom should develop potentially large Chayadinsk gas field in Yakutia at the projected cost of at least $40 billion. The task would include building a pipeline all the way from Yakutia to Vladivostok where a new LNG terminal would be built serving to export gas to China and Japan. In what looks like more Putin's fictional plans, this huge project is supposed to be completed by 2017. Given Yakutia's climate and difficult terrain, Western analysts estimate the project's real cost not at $40 bill. but at over $65 billion with construction time of up to ten years.

Concerned that Gazprom may have already lost out on the Chinese LNG market, Russian politicians ignore a reality that Yakutian gas is currently projected to cost four to five times the current price of natural gas in the U.S.. The project is unlikely to ever become competitive with LNG supplies from Australia, Quatar and potentially from Canada's west coast. The Chinese already get cheaper Turkmen gas through an existing pipeline that is likely to be expanded.
With the South Stream project and other Gazprom's investment commitments, its total capital expenditures are projected to be about $45 billion a year for the next five years, well in excess of its net profits. Given that Gazprom usually exceeds capital expenditure projections while missing its annual production targets, Putin's over-ambitious investment targets may yet drive Gazprom into bankruptcy within the next few years cutting off Gazprom's currently substantial annual contributions to the total state revenues.


As a former KGB,Putin stabilized his power by fighting with Chechnya for Russia's unity,which means he is a strong man not only to his enemy but also to his colleagues.In 2006,former agent of Russia Litvinenko was killed by FBS,
Putin will never let anyone threat his govern.But the latest election gave his a lesson that the corruption is the real threat to him.However,if he fight against the corruption,he may lose his dominate to Russia for many embezzlers are his political allies.But the country would collapse,if Putin let corruption slide.In a word,Putin is in a dilemma.

Didomyk in reply to UranusLeon

"..former KGB,Putin stabilized his power by fighting with Chechnya for Russia's unity.."

The Chechens have a long history of fighting Russian occupation. The Chechens were suppressed by Stalin, exiled en mass into Central Asian steppes, banned from returning to their homeland, murdered by the thousands by Russian OMON troops. What nonsense are you talking about ? Get real, learn hiastory's facts ! Chechnia, Ingushetia, Degestan and other peoples of the Caucasus are not Russians, they have repeatedly proven their strong will to be free by taking up arms against Russian occupation.

dr dubie

Leave it to the Economist to turn a story about a wonderful turn of events in Russia into a negative piece about its initiator, who is almost certainly doing it selflessly to his own detriment. (And perhaps because he is indeed facing his mortality or no longer cares about using his best judgement to better himself--interesting points but negatively presented.) Your bias makes me sick. The cold war ended two decades ago, you ideolog tabloid hacks.

kpxoxol in reply to dr dubie

Can't hold my laughter about the anger and jealousy of Putin coming form the inept broke western losers.

They whine while Russia laughs all the way to the bank and Forbes recognizes Putin as the third most powerful person in the World circa 2012.

West can be funny if not so pathetic, heh, heh, heh :D

kuzmich in reply to dr dubie

dr dubie, I’ll tell you why the Economist turns the anti corruption campaign in Russia into a negative piece. There’s going to be less Russian individuals to bring misappropriated funds to the UK. Won’t be possible to skim off the creams.


Russia's Prime Minister Medvedev has disclosed top secret info on files on aliens that may have landed in Russia !!!

In footage recorded Friday after a television interview, Medvedev, the former president, joked that each Russian leader gets two folders with information about extra-terrestrials that visited our planet — and stayed here.

He was heard telling a TV journalist he could not tell "how many of them are among us, because it may cause panic." He also said more details could be found in Barry Sonnenfeld's "Men in Black" films.

Is it safe to assume that at least some of these extra-terrestrials are contributing regular pro-Putin comments on TE Blogs ???

airborne cigar

We tend to forget that Russia ,like Britain,is part of Europe and hence 'The West'.In the emerging World Society the next stage is clearly the evolution of large power blocks. Hence in the 'West' there could eventually be three , North America,South America and The European Union. In the remaider of the Globe similar large Federations will come together. Only by Developments of this nature can our civilization hope to deal with the huge emerging problems of adequate power sourcing,feeding the increasing population, the effects of Climate Change etc. Thus it is inevitable that for this to happen peaceably. the European Union must become The European Federation ,and include European Russia, so that Europeans can retain a strong presence in the future . Do you not think that the Russians may also give thought to this outcome ? No-one who is concerned over the future of mankind,can believe that civilization can survive otherwise.


Why Putin doesn´t leave Russia at the very moment? Isn´t the answer obvious? He is afraid that his enemies plan to overthrow him, while he is abroad and without direct control of the country. Therefore he plays hide and seek.
Putin gambles. Whether he win or not, will decide the stability of Russia and its future.

kpxoxol in reply to ThomasF.

The importand difference between Russia and the US about fighting the corruption is that the DEMOCRATICALLY ELECTED Russia President is trying to curb it, while the US presidents are bought and sold LEGALY by wealthy "donors" who can purchase the best government money can buy.

The US NEVER EVER had democratic elections. The electoral system is inherently anti-democratic and the "elected officials" BUY their way to the top.


J. Kemp


Sounds very much like the systemic corruption system put in place by America's congress and state legislatures.

Do you have a desire to steal from the people? Simply fund some legislator campaigns and they will happily draft and pass some laws which legitimize your intended larceny.

Meanwhile in Britain, corruption remains old-fashioned. Alleged bribes paid by Rolls-Royce, bribe-paying and taking by newspapers to policemen, paying private investigators to unlawfully hack people's telephones, and fraudulently fixing the LIBOR rate for personal and company profit.

In America, it is easily observed that the modern system of unions is systemically corrupt, enabling organized groups to extort from employers, both public and private. Union members are by all indications loyal voters for the democratic party in America. Thus one more mafia of bought and paid for voters helping hold a particular regime in power. Other blocks of voters are also arguably paid off in America through various entitlements, and through liberal immigration policies.

It may be interesting to note that bribe-taking by bureaucrats has a very long history in Russia, and during part of that history was actually legal. Even today, the salaries of many low-level bureaucrats in Russia are so low, that like in the time of Peter the Great and after, bribe-taking was the only true compensation for bureaucrats. While this may be shocking to Western readers, what should also pain Western readers is their own bloated bureaucracies and the large, secure salaries and pensions which their taxpayers are burdened with because of same.

The long-term solution for eliminating all corruption in Russian government would be higher (survivable) salaries, and strong penalties against bribe-takers, which would also, of course, mean higher taxes for Russian citizens, and possibly a downsized bureaucracy.

The long history in Russia of bureaucrats being lawfully paid via кормления ("feedings"), otherwise known as bribes, when government did not have it as a custom, or have the funds, to pay survivable salaries, is how this norm emerged as an element of bureaucratic culture in Russia. Thus the process of change is against a more challenging slope than would be the case in many Western nations. And of course, Russia has comparatively low income taxes, which would have to be raised significantly to normalize the salaries of government employees in Russia. Bribery payments to bureaucrats are an ugly compensation model to Western eyes, but during certain long periods of Russia's history, such was the lawful norm for paying bureaucrats, which at least had the presumable benefit of down-scaling bureaucratic compensation during periods of economic necessity.

Keep in mind that the cost of government is over 40% of GDP in America, and over 50% in France. Both being countries where a system which automatically down-scaled government compensation during downturns might have made these countries much better off, and less ridden by debt than they are today.

Didomyk in reply to TONI 209

" If you mention the scale of corruption in Russia, within the minutes you get response quoting...."

That's clear evidence of the KPB (Kremlin Propaganda Bureau) agents being keen to earn their annual bonuses. The Holidays are coming, an extra bonus is more than welcome !

Puntmeister in reply to J. Kemp

I've made the point in another post, but will make it again:

Often times, people refer to 'corruption', when in fact they are really describing 'extortion' and/or 'embezzlement'.

Corruption can be found everywhere - yes, even in the U.S.

To clarify:

An example of corruption: A shop-owner has a building code violation, and gets out of it by bribing the inspector.

An example of extortion: A shop-owner has no building code violations, but is threatened with closure by an inspector just the same, unless they pay-up.

An example of embezzlement: A director of a government agency siphons off tens of millions of government funds to their private Swiss bank account.

Corruption - in the form of bribery of public officials for private gain - is near impossible to completely eradicate, although it is more prevalent in some countries than others (anyone who thinks the U.S. is as bad as Russia in this domain is misinformed or disingenous). However, corruption is not debilitating to a market economy.

Extortion is much more debilitating to a healthy market than corruption. Extortion is fairly rampant in Russia, while nearly non-existant in the U.S./Western Europe. The practise of extortion can, and should be, eradicated in Russia.

Embezzlement can be the most painful in terms of direct financial costs - especially when you are talking the billions of dollars that are embezzled away from the Russian citizenry every year. Again, Russia suffers tremendously from embezzlement. Aggregious forms of embezzlement are fairly easy to track down - the fact that such cases are rarely prosecuted in Russia is shameful, and should result in mass public outcry.

Puntmeister in reply to J. Kemp

Your point about corruption arising as a form of reasonable levels of remuneration to otherwise low-paid government staff is well understood.

The problem with Russia is not corruption (it exists widely, but police officers taking $10 bribes to clear traffic violations does not ruin a country).

The problem with Russia is the rampant extortion and embezzlement, which stifle entrepreneurs and ran-sack the public coffers.

kpxoxol in reply to J. Kemp




the sky might fall

what else is new
corruption, ok...

now name me
1) a television where one "usually" would be able to find news of corruption scandals involving officials close to presidents,
and 2) a country where high-level bureaucrats "usually" go loudly public when they fall


Today outgoing Ukrainian Rada (Parliament) abolished forthcoming doomsday. Nothing will stop corruption.

kpxoxol in reply to kuzmich

Are you talking about THIS doomsday? :D

OilPrice.com: Ukraine crushed in $1.1 billion fake gas deal

Certainly the folks at Gazprom are having a good snicker, reveling in the mockery that has been made of what should have been a landmark Ukraine-Spain gas deal that would have loosened Russia’s gas grip on Kiev.

It was a horrible moment for Ukraine on Monday—all the more horrible because the whole event was televised—when the historical $1.1 billion deal it was about to sign with Spain’s Gas Natural Fenosa turned out to be fake.



Didomyk in reply to kuzmich


Sounds like you are really sorry there will be no doomsday !

Relax. As soon as Yanek is gone, the Rada will vote to bring doomsday back ! And to deliver it to Moscow's Red Square that by that time will have been renamed VLAD PUTIN Square !

Son of Hamilcar Barca

I think the economist is mistaken or unclear when it theorizes that Putin is out of touch. Although this may be true internationally, within Russia what Putin thinks is what is in touch; any view that differs from his is out of touch.

Son of Hamilcar Barca

Whatever he may call himself Putin is a dictator. As such I do not think he will be able to maintain dictatorial contol of Russia without either keeping his cronies happy or appealing to the general public in some way. Weeding out corruption (which in Russia is like weeding salt out of the ocean) effectively reminds the wealthy that he can distroy them and the general population that he has built his "presidency" on political bulling, protest supression, and probable ballet box rigging.
On the other hand:
The Russian people have shown a tremendously generous (or short sighted) willingness to forgive strong leaders for their sins, and even with a bad back Putin is a strong leader. They may accept his actions at, if not face value (at face value they look like blantant attempts to control his rivles and manipulate the public) then at whatever value he tells them to place on his action.

Putin is under continuing pressure by Russia's right wing movements and imperial-minded 'philosophers' like Alexander Dugin and others. Read more on Dugin and his right-wing views here:


A sample of Alexander Dugin's, the 'Father' of the so-called International "Eurasian Movement", comments on Putin's rule:

"The crisis of Putin's rule came in the four years when Medvedev was the president. It seemed then that we are back in the 90's, back with the liberal West, striving for a rapprochement with the United States. It threatened to again raise the issue of stability and bring an end of the new wave of the collapse of Russia from the North Caucasus and other weak points. This danger of Medvedev's government was very serious because it was surrounded by pro-Western liberals, by agents of influence, that continue for 90 years in an attempted destruction of our state. Putin's return for a third term created new conditions.
"... on the one hand Putin embodies the strength, in the sense of the opposite reaction to liberal Western-destructive tendencies, that is, represents the force of life. It is a response to evil and decomposition of Russia. But, on the other hand, Putin does not have sufficient internal outlook for consistent implementation of patriotic reforms ..."
".... his return could be filled with even more drama, generate another unstable historical period. On the one hand, he is an extremely positive figure , especially compared with the Liberals and with Medvedev, on the other hand - we can see that he has no internal ideological inclinations for creativity."
Conclusion: Putin is not sufficiently right-wing nationalist. He has insufficient Russian "ideoloical creativity" (however defined!)

Didomyk in reply to kuzmich

So, to be more precise, what exactly has Putin influenced in his terms as President and PM ? I really can't think of some good example. A war in Chechnia, Dagestan, etc ? Annual capital Outflow in billions ? The number of Russian billionnaires ? The number of corrupt officials buying multi-million- dollars apartments in Londongrad ? Maybe the number of publicity photos showing half-naked Putin .. ? Maybe you can help ?

kuzmich in reply to Didomyk

Didomyk, I’m sorry I’m not Forbes. I can pass over your doubts and questions to Forbes editorial board. You in your turn can forward and puzzle TE nameless observers. As far as I know, you have good connection in TE. Tell them to write another article on the thrilling news.
You know why Obama is the first. Because he waged more impressive wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Moreover, he assisted “democratic’ revolutions in Libya, Egypt and Tunis where a big mess going on today. Merkel in the middle is a politically correct move. Obama and Putin are not male chauvinists.


Like China, Vietnam & many other countries such as those in African Russia has its dictatorship, right? So, how one, even in the highest top of power, can fight corruption in such a regime of giving birth to corruption, bribe, and again dictatorship?


Yes, the law needs to be fully implemented. A good start would be arresting the perpetrators of numerous(too numerous) assassinations.


Lonely, super leader Putin is indeed lonely at the top surrounded by all this retarded incompetent western leaders who brought the west economies to oblivion to rot in debt several times their GDP, while Russia economy grows, Russia is debt free, got the third largest FOREX reserve in the World and reaps nice trade surplus of hundreds of $$$ BN.

No wonder the broke and sinking west are so angry on Putin - they a jealous on Russia. They thump their flea infested chest, stomp their little feet, make whiny noises, lick their chops and watch how Russia laughs all the way to the bank, heh, heh, heh :D

Russia has no debt because other coutries do not trust Russia with credit. Also, Russia is the only country in the world, not in a state of war-civil war with a negative population growth rate, which looks disturbing like rats leaving a ship.
Look, we understand national pride and if you (I'm assuming your Russian) would rather have a strong leader than the ability to vote in free election thats fine just say it like it is, don't pretend like the Russian public is roling in piles of money...

Russia unlike most of the broke and sinking western country is NET LENDER country and the REAL income of the Russia population rises ever since Putin is in the helm, unlike the stagnant west. Russia people may not be "rolling in money" but so do 90% of the US population which "rolls" in irrecoverable debt because they spent beyond their real means much like the US government itself and live on the back of the future generation of their offsprings. Same for most of their EU lackey.

The credit is good so far if some is capable to pay back in time, else much like the west discovers as we speak the payback is a betch. Thanks God Putin Russia pull itself from the deptor pit the DERMOcrap Yeltsin and his US HIID "economy advisers" bring Russia, and now watches with amusement how the west sinks in the trap they dug for themselves. LOL :D

I've had a little trouble understanding what you are trying to say, but since your English is much better than my Russian (which is nonexistant) I can't really complain.
There probabily isn't any point in arguing opinions, since I have never visited Russia, and I'm guessing you have never visited the U.S. so lets look at some facts:

Average life expectancy: U.S. 78 years; Russia 70
Per capita GDP U.S.48,442; Russia 21,248
Net migration rate U.S. 3.62; Russia .29
Population growth rate U.S .96; Russia -.51
Human rights index U.S. 1 "Free"; Russia 7 "Not Free"

The list goes on...
I'm not going to try to argue that one country is better than the other because thats a matter of perspective and opinion. What is clear is that a if a child is born in each country, the child in the United States can anticipate a higher quality of life than the child born in Russia.

>Per capita GDP U.S.48,442; Russia 21,248

Actually the GDP per capita in the USA is US$(-1,875) considering the fact that the US owes more than they earn (debt per capita in the US is $50317), and the quality of the US public education is below the one of Zimbabwe, hence the US aborigine have no chance to compete and their jobs are outsourced to COMMUNIST China. the US has no future while Russia still controls 34% of all known Earth natural resources and is REAL RICH.

>Net migration rate U.S. 3.62; Russia .29

The net migration rate in the US 2012 is ZERO - even Mexico don't want to go to the broke and sinking US anymore, while Russia had to issue new laws to curb the illegal immigration to Russia :

Net Migration from Mexico Falls to Zero—and Perhaps Less



walterbenjamin in reply to kpxoxol

kpxoxol is a such primitive Russian Chauvinist, just one of these Putin propagandist who are daring tow rite here and polluting our Free Press in our Free Democratic Countries - it is not necessary to even consider his arguments, of course even to read this street guy and vulgar Putin's propaganda.
However there is one point that I would like to underline - this point is one of the most important political arguments made by Putin: the Russians are, today, because of him, "rich" - or at least richer than in 1999.
The right question that the Russian Newspapers , Vedomosti, has named : "The Illusion of a Rich Russia" - at 02 December 2012

Part I

"Foreigners may think Russia has overcome the problem of poverty. "Russians seem to live worry-free lives, especially in the big cities," writes journalist Pierre Avril in a Nov. 13 article in Le Figaro. "While housewives in Europe battle depression, Russia seems unaffected by the crisis, and families buy up consumer goods at a prodigious pace." Avril notes that Russians buy cars, luxury goods and food items as though they were unaffected by any economic problems at all.

The quantity of mobile phone numbers registered to every 100 people is 1 1/2 times higher in Russia than in France, the U.S. or Japan. The amount Russians spend on international tourism has grown so quickly that they now rank seventh in the world, pushing ahead of the Japanese. LVMH — the world's largest luxury retailer and producer of Moet & Chandon champagne, Hennessy cognac as well as clothing and accessories sold under the Fendi, Kenzo and Louis Vuitton brand names — has shown growth in sales in Russia for years on end.

The number of Russians who live below the poverty line, as defined by the World Bank, is exceptionally small, according to the report "Farewell to Poverty" by Mikhail Dmitriyev, head of the Federal Center for Social Development, and Svetlana Misikhina, head of the National Economics Academy's Center for Social Policy. Russia's formerly impoverished population has now climbed above the benchmark of spending $2 per day (measured as the daily purchasing power parity) and has now become the "wealthy poor." The nearly 12 percent of Russians who continue to live on $2 to $10 per day enjoy a higher standard of living than comparable segments of the population in China, India and Indonesia. What's more, they are buying almost as much food and as many telephones, televisions and computers as people with even higher incomes. In addition, thanks to the Soviet legacy, Russians enjoy almost equal access to the country's infrastructure.

Amid all of the seemingly good news, however, Russia's poverty problem is far from conquered."

walterbenjamin in reply to kpxoxol


Part II

"First, the boom in consumption is not necessarily the result of greater incomes but of the rapid growth in borrowing. Russians are accumulating debt at an alarming rate. Individual borrowing is outpacing corporate borrowing by 300 percent. The number of loans that Russians have taken out this year is 40 percent higher than last year. Similar growth in the borrowing rate was last seen just before the 2008 crisis, when the rate of borrowing was climbing by 55.8 percent.
Second, if poverty were measured not as a function of the number of televisions purchased but by more qualitative indicators such as the quality of housing and health, the picture would not be as rosy as we have been led to believe.
Housing conditions are also an accurate indicator of Russians' real standard of living. More than 61 percent of Russians have a very modest living space per person: 7 square meters to 30 square meters. Another 2.3 percent are even more tightly packed at home, according to the Higher School of Economics National Research University. Worse, the level of "housing poverty" has not changed appreciably in the last 20 years. In addition, considering that the price for 1 square meter of an apartment is now several times greater than the average Russian's income, the only chance most people have for an improvement in living conditions is if a family member dies and leaves more room for the others.
What about health? Statistics on morbidity are not published very regularly, but judging from those that are available for 2000-10, Russia is experiencing a steady upward trend, with 18 percent more illnesses registered than before. Taking into account the shrinking population, the real increase in illness is actually 20.4 percent. Taken separately, the illness rate among youth is up 150 percent.
Obviously, it is not the people with tuberculosis living in shoebox-sized apartments along with a handful of relatives who are snatching up Louis Vuitton handbags. Rapidly growing income inequality is a characteristic of modern Russia. True, the poorest Russians are not as bad off as those in India and China, but this country has a different cultural makeup and had already taken steps in the last century to eliminate the worst forms of poverty. Yet it remains a distant dream to eradicate widespread poverty."


Graft and corruption is as much part of the Russian culture as it is of the Chinese. If you want to open a store in Moscow you have to pay off dozens of people from the janitor to the Mayor and the Police chief -- it is simply their way of life.

Puntmeister in reply to dunnhaupt

It is worth being more specific.

People often talk about 'corruption' when they are really referring to 'extortion' and/or 'embezzlement'.

Paying kickbacks to win a contract, or paying an inspector to turn their backs to a violation, are acts of corruption - and are indeed endemic to most developing nations. This form of corruption is problematic, and leads to an unfair market, but is not as disruptive as extortion, or as financially painful to the public as embezzlement.

An example of extortion - being forced to payoff inspectors, even when there no violations! (this is common in Russia).

An example of embezzlement - siphoning off millions in State funds to private offshort bank accounts. Also all too common in Russia.

No way Putin, or anyone, can end corruption. But extortion and embezzlement can, and should be, curbed.


If Putin was serious about takling corruption he would walk straight into the nearest police station.

This is about appearances, nothing more.

Didomyk in reply to guest-ilwmnme

Can you imagine what would happen if Putin "would walk straight into the nearest police station" ?

a)all guys would run away in fear of what's coming next !

b)the station chief would commit suiside for fear of what's coming !

c) Putin would find all the staff asleep with several empty vodka bottles on the table !


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