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Field Guide To Moscow: Garrulus Garrulus
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Garrulus Garrulus
Bearded Intelligentsia
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Distinguishing features: Shaggy beard and hair so authentic you know
that they do it out of necessity rather than irony. Shitty button-down shirts, and most
importantly, shitty sandals. They always wear shitty sandals.
Habitat: Any Project OGI, Gogol, or other cheap cafe-restaurant
serving sovok food with an intellectual veneer. Kitchens.
Danger if Provoked: Moderate to high. If you ask about anything from
politics to literature to the weather, you will be subjected to a six-hour discourse on
every subject under the moon, infused with deductive reasoning the likes of which has not
been seen or heard since the days of the Toga. Moreover, you will be asked to buy him
100g of vodka every 30 minutes, and you will be told that it is "normal" for a person to
buy a bearded intellectual vodka, as well as pickled cucumbers, in order to reward his
genius.
Mortal Weaknesses: Halyava.
Comments: Garrulus Garrulus tends to avoid expats because he believes
they're not just vulgar, but stingy.
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Save The eXile: The War Nerd Calls Mayday
Editorial
The future of The eXile is in your hands! We're holding a fundraiser to save the paper, and your soul. Tune in to Gary Brecher's urgent request for reinforcements and donate as much as you can. If you don't, we'll be overrun and wiped off the face of the earth, forever.
Scanning Moscow’s Traffic Cops
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We’re happy to introduce a new column in which we publish Moscow’s raw radio communications, courtesy of a Russian amateur radio enthusiast. This issue, eXile readers are given a peek into the secret conversations of Moscow’s traffic police, the notorious "GAIshniki."
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Feature Story By The eXile
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Your Letters
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Russia's freedom-loving free market martyr Mikhail Khodorkovsky answers some of this week's letters, and he's got nothing but praise for President Medvedev.
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Your Letters
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Richard Gere tackles this week's letters. Now reformed, he fights for gerbil rights all around the world.
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Everybody complains about celebrities, but nobody does anything about them. People, it’s time to stop fretting about whether we’re a celebrity-obsessed culture—we are, we have been, we’re going to be—and instead take practical steps to clean up the celebrity-obsessed culture we’ve got...
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