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mikeash on July 8, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Who’s Behind the GandCrab Ransomware?

Russia switched to the Gregorian calendar in 1918, so I don’t think it would need to.

schoen on July 9, 2019 [–]

Although there are a small number of Russian Orthodox Christians who remain disappointed about that:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/True_Orthodoxy

(I don't think this would affect anyone's civil birthdate.)

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