Observed arrival · 2026-11-12
The Plain Truth, No. 315: “Never of Interest”
A serialized feuilleton newspaper turns a news story about tax authorities checking business expenses into a small-town bureaucratic comedy.
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- A cited tax-news story becomes 145 handwritten inquiries and a queue of 42 people at the fictional town’s revenue window.
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The six-section installment begins at Window No. 3 of the fictional Uproshchensk Revenue Inspectorate, where inspector Arkady Ilyich Vnikaev turns a tax-service change into a town-wide paperwork ritual. The page gives concrete counts—145 inquiries sent and 42 people in the queue—and links RBC coverage as its source. Readers can also reach earlier issues through an archive and calendar, with Russian and English options visible.
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