That decision is the first to rule on this set of facts in the context of the now-ancient Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA).

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But as we know democracy in the Russian context has many meanings: free and fair elections (liberal), corrupted elections and the rule of the powerful (cynical), chaos (1990s) political and social participation (Soviet).

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