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Why do Russians use brackets instead of smileys? (VIDEO)
Anna Sorokina
Sep 12 2025
Lifestyle
Russians usually put closing brackets at the end of what they write when they want to express positive emotions and the number of brackets has meaning!)))
Anna Sorokina
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