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<p class="MsoNormal"><span><span lang="EN-US" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Arial","sans-serif"; COLOR: black">Dear ICANN,
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span><span lang="EN-US" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Arial","sans-serif"; COLOR: black">Russian Federation cannot agree to use two-character labels “.ru”, “.đô” and “.su” at the second level under New gTLDs.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span><span lang="EN-US" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Arial","sans-serif"; COLOR: black">We are concerned that the deceptive similarity of these two-letter combinations with country codes ccTLDs creates the risk of confusion and
misleading of Internet users.</span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span><span lang="EN-US" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Arial","sans-serif"; COLOR: black">We reserve the right to further review this decision. Until further notice from our side please apply this approach to all requests under
New gTLDs.</span></span></p>
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<p><span><span lang="DE-CH" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; COLOR: black">Best regards,</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span><b><span lang="EN-US" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Arial","sans-serif"; COLOR: black">Yulia Elanskaya</span></b></span><span><span lang="DE-CH" style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Times New Roman","serif"; COLOR: black"></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span><span lang="EN-US" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Arial","sans-serif"; COLOR: black">Deputy Director of International Cooperation Department<br>
Ministry of Telecom and Mass Communications of the Russian Federation</span></span><span><span lang="DE-CH" style="COLOR: black"></span></span></p>
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