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Morning Edition · Saturday, November 7, 2026Published at 1:25 AM EST · New York
Russian Telegram resellers advertise two years of Gemini Pro for 800 rubles while Google and Anthropic exclude Russia from their services
The advertised price is about 2% of the listed 39,000-ruble value, and the offer lists access to Anthropic's Claude Opus 5.5 and Sonnet 5.5 alongside Google's tools.
A promotion posted on November 6 to AI ML Big Data, a large Russian-language machine-learning channel on Telegram, offers 24 months of Gemini Pro for 800 rubles, or $9.90, "instead of 39,000 rubles." It works out to 33 rubles a month. The p…
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