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The following two stories turned up next to each other in my inbox several mornings ago. The first story (about the hidden costs of common areas in new residential buildings) was promoted as its "Article of the Week" by the business daily Delovoi Peterburg, whose chronicles of post-Soviet capitalism on the march in my favorite city I have been reading and sharing here for two decades, usually against the grain. The second story (about how the authorities in Kaliningrad hushed up the recent de...