Шпаргалка: crib note or cue card; cheat sheet
A few months ago, a television advertisement appeared with the words of an Alexander Blok poem flying across Moscow in an SMS message to a cell phone. I thought: Magnificent! What a literate country this is, where they flog cell phone service by quoting Silver Age poetry. Then the words reach their destination, and you see that actually a father is sending the poem to his son during his exam -- that is, the father is cheerfully helping his son to cheat. Hmm. Cancel that praise.
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