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The Znachki Edition

On Navalny, commemorative pins, and imagined futures.

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Aug 27, 2024
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Re-running one of our favorite WITIs of the year, written by Perry Hewitt (PSH), Chief Marketing and Product Officer at data.org. Enjoy - LC

Perry here. Digging in a drawer a few weeks back, I found a box of Russian pins, or znachki (значки), acquired during my few years of study and work stints in the rapidly dissolving USSR in the late 1980s and early …

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