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In Novaya Gazeta Baltic’s look at esoterica’s hold on the Russian imagination we learnt the staggering fact that Russians currently spend more than twice as much annually on psychics and fortune-tellers than they do on medicine. Or as Yulia, a specialist in runes, amulets and candles, put it with admirable clarity, magic has always existed, but people have only just realised quite how lucrative it can be.
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