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"Mayoral election in Voronezh became noticeable after Konstantin Ashifin's website went viral on social media."

"It's not about black or white, good or bad. It's about new, more understandable, perhaps, more real political technologies..."

"There’s a boom of local Internet media in Russia, as online newspapers and magazines spring up all around Russia, from small rural towns (district centers) to large cities of one million or more people. Some of these sites get noticed on a national level.Voronezh’s Downtown is one of them."

"They did a really good job with Downtown.ru: beautiful sleek design, trendy branding and new formats that local online newspapers are just starting to use."

"The website, a cross between Time Out and Dazed and Confused magazines, publishes articles about the best places to eat and the lifestyles of the local beau monde as well as meatier think-pieces. What sets Downtown apart is its arguably loftier goal: to stem the migration of the city’s creatives by inspiring them to stay local."