Inside Russia's Creepy, Innovative Internet

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Episode 9: For the past five years, Russia's been building walls around its web and packing it with tech oligarchs, startup cities, face-finding algorithms, hacker hunters, and, of course, a few bears. The best mouse I've ever met lives in Akademgorodok, a Siberian city about an hour's drive from Novosibirsk. The mouse is not alive. It's a 2-foot statue that stands watch over a genetic engineering laboratory. Frozen in time, the mouse wears glasses and a lab coat, using a pair of knitting needles to stitch together strands of DNA.