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$10,000 Amount of the fine a Russian ad agency must pay for showing a clip from The Big Lebowski on a giant screen in Moscow last summer. The Russian government ruled last week that the clip, showing a man smashing a car with a baseball bat, riled up soccer fans in a square in central Moscow who were already seething after watching Russia lose to Japan in the World Cup. The hooligans fought, burned cars and smashed shop windows after the clip was shown.

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