What do you know about Gopniks? Russian style, bljaaa!!! 8)

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In the 90s, it seemed that the gopniki were poised to inherit, if not the earth, then at least 1/6 of the earth's land mass. Gopniki ranged across all of Russia's fabled 11 time zones, from the now-defunct Intourist Hotel lobby just a couple hundreds meters from Red Square, to the kiosk-lined walkway along Vladivostok's shoreline, and all points in between. Gopniki, or at least Russian men who'd adopted the gopnik look, seemed to be moving into every sphere of life, from "biznes," where they served as the muscle, to politics, where, as LDPR deputies they formed the core resistance to Westernization.

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