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The word “tibla” insults this ethnicity over assimilationist policies whose criticism in the “Letter of 40” shaped a tough language mandate. Stateless “non-citizens” of mainly this [emphasize] minority ethnicity hold gray “alien’s passports” based on the Era of Silence’s 1938 Citizenship Act. The Harmony party represents this largest minority in the host country of the news site Meduza. In 2007, hackers of (10[1])this ethnicity protested a relocated bronze soldier (-5[1])with cyberattacks (-5[1])that prefigured their “web brigades.” Five countries, including (10[1])a “digital society” led by Kaja Kallas (10[1])(“KAH-yah KAHL-lahss”), have barred IT workers of (10[1])mainly this (10[1])ethnicity (10[1])with Schengen (10[1])(“SHENG-un”) tourist visas. (-5[1])Since 2022, over 200,000 asylum seekers of this ethnicity have fled to countries like Kazakhstan (10[2])and Georgia. (10[1])For 10 (-5[1])points, (10[1])Latvia (10[1])and Estonia rejected (10[1])what (10[1])ethnicity’s (10[1])exodus after (10[1])the invasion of (-5[1])Ukraine? (10[1])■END■ (10[3]0[5])

ANSWER: Russians [or russkiye, venelane, venelased, krievs, or krievi; accept Russians in specific former Soviet republics, such as Russians in Estonia; accept Russification or Russianization or rusifikatsiya; prompt on East Slavs or vostochnyye slavyane] (Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, and Finland imposed the visa restriction.)
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Conor ThompsonIowa StateIllinois6110
Cooper RohColumbia ANorth Carolina A68-5
Mattias EhatammWaterlooWUSTL A70-5
Matthew SiffYale ABrown7810
Subhamitra Banerjee RoychoudhuryMichiganJohns Hopkins8510
Matt JacksonChicago AMinnesota A9010
Jacob Hardin-BernhardtNYUNorthwestern9210
Jakob MyersIndianaCornell A9310
Ashish SubramanianDukePenn9510
Michal GerasimiukStanfordChicago B97-5
Shiv SeshanChicago DHarvard11210
Charles HangWUSTL AWaterloo11210
Graham TroyNorth Carolina BBerkeley B11410
Skand ParvatikarArizona StateYale B116-5
Sanjay SrihariGeorgia TechMaryland11710
Chinmay MurthyTexasPurdue11810
Sarod NoriCornell BChicago C12110
Albert ZhangColumbia BVirginia12210
Alan WuVanderbiltMinnesota B12310
Nicolas EdwardsMcGillKentucky12510
Nathaniel HullBerkeley AToronto A128-5
Donal RyanTruman StateSouth Carolina12910
Sky LiToronto ABerkeley A13010
Graham CopeFloridaClaremont Colleges1300
Dean Ah NowClaremont CollegesFlorida1300
Benjamin McAvoy-BickfordNorth Carolina AColumbia A13010
Robert CondronChicago BStanford13010
Mark TawfikRutgersToronto B1300
Joey SunToronto BRutgers1300
Ben SterlingYale BArizona State1300