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Gustavo Moreira Freitas writes (https://www.linkedin.com/groups/25827/25827-6166706414627627011):

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A python test for an interview #1.
Today i did a simple test that you give a string to a function,
and then the return output should count the letters sequencially;
as following example:

in: "aaaaabbbbccccccaaaaaaa" => out: "5a4b6c7a"

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STOLYPIN: Can Putin really be Syrious?
Mark Galeotti of New York University
September 7, 2015
 

While Russian forces remain bogged down in the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine, prop up unrecognized regimes in Abkhazia, South Ossetia and Transnistria, and wander (and occasionally shell) the uplands of the North Caucasus, can the Kremlin really be committing itself to a substantive military deployment to Syria? Common sense would seem to say no, but the facts on the ground are beginning to suggest the answer is a – conditional – yes. Is there a rationale to such a move, or is this simply a piece of knee-jerk international posturing? And what might it portend?

Boots on the sand

Russia has long had a limited commitment in Syria – one of its last real allies, after all, alongside such equally threadbare assets as Nicaragua, Venezuela and some grudging Central Asian “’stans.” It has a very small naval installation at Tartus, not the “naval base” some allege but a limited logistical point amounting to a pier and 

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