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United Russia on Vkontakte

All 295 members of the ruling United Russia party’s State Duma faction now have accounts at Vkontakte.ru, Russia’s most popular social networking site with some 91 million user accounts, Deputy Robert Shlegel reported on his blog Monday.

Shlegel, also a United Russia member, conceded that not all of his colleagues were likely to actually make use of their accounts but said the project could bring the deputies closer to the public.

(MT)


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