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From seduction to spy glasses and shock: Inside Russians' trail of viral shame

Yayteslav Trahov, a foreign national widely labelled online as “the Russian guy behind viral videos. 

For a while, Kenya’s social media timelines morphed into a national amphitheatre of shock, speculation, and moral debate.

Screens filled with whispered allegations, blurred clips, memes, and heated commentary, all orbiting around a foreign national widely labelled online as “the Russian guy spread like wildfire.”

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