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Nascent Drama

"What is happening on the Internet is entertainment, and that's beyond my scientific responsibility," said Efim Galitskiy, a sociologist at the Public Opinion Foundation (FOM), a pollster which oversaw an earlier stage of the contest.
 
When Lyubimov noticed Stalin surging into the lead, apparently after the opposition Communist party encouraged its members to vote for him, he decided to organise what he called a "flash mob" online in support of the last tsar.
 
The contest began when state television channel "Rossiya" released in May a list of 500 significant Russians and asked FOM to whittle the names down to the 50 most influential, using private polling. Stalin and Lenin figured second and third.
 
Nineteenth-century poet Alexander Pushkin's 126,600 votes put him in sixth place and Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space, is eighth with 112,400. Composer Pyotr Tchaikovsky trails in 22nd place with just 19,700 votes.
 
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, the former president, is excluded because he is still alive. So is the last leader of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev.
 
Nicholas II, caricatured in Soviet times as the face of imperial Russia and symbol of its social inequalities, has become for many Russians a martyr and symbol of lost glory. The Bolsheviks shot Nicholas II and his family in July 1918.
 
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An upstate New York man says he's still upbeat despite losing the same leg twice. Scott Listemann told the Poughkeepsie Journal that he laughs about losing his foot and lower leg "both the first time and the second time."
 
The Poughkeepsie man lost his leg below the knee in a November, 2007 accident. Listemann, 47, lost his prosthetic leg last month while skydiving in upstate New York.
 
The lower leg below the knee, with a foot clad in a running shoe, flew off after he jumped from the plane but before the parachute opened. Listemann says he's sure "it will show up eventually."
 
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