{"id":25953,"date":"2007-07-18T10:00:01","date_gmt":"2007-07-18T10:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2007\/07\/18\/if-you-read-any-book-about-traditional-weddings-in-russian-history-there-must-be-a-fight\/"},"modified":"2007-07-18T10:00:01","modified_gmt":"2007-07-18T10:00:01","slug":"if-you-read-any-book-about-traditional-weddings-in-russian-history-there-must-be-a-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20070718-01\/?p=25953","title":{"rendered":"If you read any book about traditional weddings in Russian history, there must be a fight"},"content":{"rendered":"

You can buy a fake vacation for $500 or shell out $300 to $400 for a fake brawl at your wedding. <\/p>\n

“If you read any book about traditional weddings in Russian history, there must be a fight,” said Alexander Yermilov, 22, who recently made a living at it. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

If you’re looking for counterfeits, fakes, and forgeries, Moscow’s your place<\/a>. Assuming you can spot them. <\/p>\n

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Even Putin’s doctoral dissertation, researchers from the Brookings Institution revealed this year, contained major sections lifted from a text published by academics from the University of Pittsburgh. <\/p>\n

The revelations barely were repeated in the Moscow press, not because they were scandalous, but because they weren’t—government officials routinely rely on fake dissertations patched together by underlings. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You can buy a fake vacation for $500 or shell out $300 to $400 for a fake brawl at your wedding. “If you read any book about traditional weddings in Russian history, there must be a fight,” said Alexander Yermilov, 22, who recently made a living at it. If you’re looking for counterfeits, fakes, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[103],"class_list":["post-25953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-non-computer"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"

You can buy a fake vacation for $500 or shell out $300 to $400 for a fake brawl at your wedding. “If you read any book about traditional weddings in Russian history, there must be a fight,” said Alexander Yermilov, 22, who recently made a living at it. If you’re looking for counterfeits, fakes, and […]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25953\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}