What is most striking about the Russian digital economy was its relative autonomy from the official regime.

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But the Palestinian sense of being choked off into ever-diminishing patches of relative autonomy is becoming steadily stronger.

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The Kurds, who have long sought to establish a state, have operated with relative autonomy for the past few years.

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And thus the relative autonomy of the Russian internet was born.

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