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3. Is definitely not a good idea. Why on earth is someone's possible
whereabouts or ancestry that important? One needn't be of Russian
ancestry to be pro-Putin.  Kirill Lokshin is an ethnic Russian, as far
as I know, so what? He doesn't seem to have any particularly
pro-Soviet attitudes. Martintg is an ethnic Australian interested in
Estonia (so that his opponents randomly 'accuse' him of being an
Estonian), so what?
True, I've also wondered how come that Russavia can edit 24 hours,
even 60 hours almost in row. No idea how that's possible, but I don't
believe there's sock puppetry involved.

On 05/04/2009, Christian Suciu <christiansuciu@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> 1. How old is Russavia? If he's older than adolescence, and his mother is
> Russian, he may have been born into an anti-Communist, Tsarist family (if
> they emigrated after 1917) or a more left-leaning one (if they came before
> the Revolution). Of course, we assume he can think for himself and reach his
> own conclusions: for example, as Tito drifted apart from Stalin, a fertile
> source of Soviet spies in Yugoslavia was the children of White emigres who
> had fled Bolshevism and were (one assumes) strident anti-Communists.
>
> If he's just an adolescent, the above could be true, or he may have been
> born to a recent arrival ([[Russian Australians]], which he moved to that
> location on 5 September, informs us that 62% of Russian-born Australians are
> women). But it's less likely that a recent arrival would have married an
> Anglo-Australian.
>
> Not sure if this all means anything, but it's fun to speculate.
>
> 2. Let us not forget William Mauco
> (http://edwardlucas.blogspot.com/2006/08/gotcha-2.html), the Westerner paid
> by the Transnistrian government to spread its propaganda on Wikipedia. I
> don't think Russavia is a paid agent (although his doppelganger Miyokan may
> be), but who knows what sorts of ties he has to the Kremlin? After all, they
> let him upload all their pictures to Commons...
>
> 3. I know Dorin speaks Russian; do any of you others? Would setting up a
> sockpuppet with all the right templates ({{lang-ru}}, {{pro-putin}}, etc)
> and maybe some pro-Russian edits, and then e-mailing him in Russian be a
> good idea? Infiltrating their network, you know.
>
>
>
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