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Russia: TorrentReactor Village; $17,000 in Roaming Charges

Written byVeronica Khokhlova
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Posted 18 August 2010 15 years ago

Svetlana Gladkova of Profy shares two stories much discussed in the Russian blogosphere now: how a “Russian village almost got named after a torrent website in a publicity stunt,” and how a Russian woman received a $17,000 roaming charges bill after her son had spent some four hours playing games on her iPhone during their vacation abroad.

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