CultureRemembering Jovan Savović, creator of Dirty and Leprosorium

Web designer and IT entrepreneur Jovan Savović has died at 43 after a long illness. People close to him said he had multiple sclerosis. He was best known for creating Dirty, one of the first collective blogs on the Russian-language internet, and its invitation-only offshoot Leprosorium. The sites helped popularize deliberate Russian misspellings, the “Preved!” meme, and countless Photoshop images across RuNet.

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