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You're saying about formal rules but there are also implicit rules of the language.

One implicit rule of Russian is that if you pronounce each word phonetically, it is never wrong (unless you put the stress wrong).

And indeed, when publicly speaking or announcing via speakers in e.g. airport, words are pronounced almost phonetically.

Compare that to English where pronouncing phonetically is impossible and also rather undesirable.




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