A year ago, I registered on the Odnoklassniki.ru website (a Russian social networking site for former classmates). Yesterday I got a message from a girl from a parallel class. Saying she’d seen me on TV. I wrote back: how’s everyone doing? What’s the news? She replied (copied from the message): "We already no longer have Sergei Novikov from our class (he was killed on the border with Tajikistan), Nikolai Ionov (he hanged himself), and at one time my namesake—Roma Tyurin—also studied with us. Well, he was killed in prison." Born in 1976. What will it be like in another ten years?

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