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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.

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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.

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“We repaired it, rebuilt it, launched it. Smoke rises from the stack,” said the head of the plant’s equipment unit.

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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.

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“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.

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