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“It was definitely one of our hardest tasks ever,” said Andriy Vlasenko, the 45-year-old head of the dive team from the State Emergency Service.
They received state awards for their work, a far cry from one of their main winter occupations before the war: rescuing fishermen who had fallen through ice on the river.
“We repaired it, rebuilt it, launched it. Smoke rises from the stack,” said the head of the plant’s equipment unit.
But that hasn’t stopped foreign academics, officials and business executives from trying to find out—and some are turning to arcane tea leaf-reading techniques dating back to the era of Mao Zedong.
“Pekingology,” as this Chinese analog of Kremlinology is known, often involves poring over official speeches, documents and state-media coverage in a bid to divine insights from language, behavior and deviations from the norm.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.