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First LiveJournal Post

A post in 1999 demonstrates that LiveJournal processes Cyrillic encoding, leading to the Russian internet's most pervasive and influential early social media site. LiveJournal, soon known simply as ZhZh in Russian, became a platform for poets, writers, political activists, essayists and graphomaniacs. It launched or catalyzed several literary and political careers, and fed the budding market for conspiratorial thinking in late 1990s Russia.