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  "title": "Are residents of Russian Federation eligible to participate?",
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      "postDate": "12/22/2014 19:53:54",
      "content": "<p>Totally non-expert response: I see this rule in other kaggle competitions and there are many, many residents of the Russian federation competing on kaggle. If you were in North Korea, Sudan, Iran, or Syria you might have &nbsp;a problem. Cuba might be OK now, but I don't think there's much internet access there.</p>\n<p>The issue could only ever come up if you finished in the top 3.</p>\n<p>There&nbsp;are a very small number of Russian officials who are embargoed by name by US law. I think if you were one of them, you would know it.</p>",
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      "post_date": "12/22/2014 19:53:54",
      "content": "<p>Totally non-expert response: I see this rule in other kaggle competitions and there are many, many residents of the Russian federation competing on kaggle. If you were in North Korea, Sudan, Iran, or Syria you might have &nbsp;a problem. Cuba might be OK now, but I don't think there's much internet access there.</p>\n<p>The issue could only ever come up if you finished in the top 3.</p>\n<p>There&nbsp;are a very small number of Russian officials who are embargoed by name by US law. I think if you were one of them, you would know it.</p>",
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