Relying on oil and gas wealth, the country has yielded only a handful of entrepreneurial successes: search engine Yandex, e-mail service Mail.ru, cyber security giant Kaspersky Labs, and cloud computing company Parallels.

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Soon after the publication of the Russian article, Quijada began to receive a steady stream of letters from e-mail addresses ending in .ru, peppering him with arcane questions and requesting changes to the language to make its words easier to pronounce.

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That hack led, rather organically, to the establishment of AnonLeaks.ru, a Web site where the Anonymous hackers posted tens of thousands of HBGary e-mails in a handy web viewer.

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