There are plenty of gloomy and dystopian cities that are not Russian, let's not get weird about this

The original author of the post is theoretically an architect student from the Philliphines, according to some articles. I agree, however, who knows... just screenshots.

It's odd because the original version was written in English. Then somebody (Alconost) translated to Russian, without giving credit to the original source, but putting in a bunch of advertisements for their own site, then somebody poorly translated it back to English.

How many people in the world speak Russian is irrelevant and has nothing to do with the fact that it's odd that whoever translated it to Russian didn't bother crediting the original, and just credited themselves a lot.

Then because of that omission, somebody wasted their time making such a terrible redundant translation back to English, with bizarre phrases like "Transferred to Alconost" and "The article is translated in Alconost", which make one question the skills of the translator so bent on claiming credit for themselves without giving proper credit to others.

https://archive.ph/GokfI

The original author of the city was indeed an architecture student from the Philippines, Vincent Oscala. At least Alconost left Vincent's name in when he misappropriated somebody else's article to advertise his low quality translation and advertising services.

The odd and terrible Russian translation also omits important links, including this interview with Vincent:

Viceland Games: The Totalitarian Buddhist Who Beat SimCity

https://archive.ph/eA7CX

Mammoth:

http://m.ammoth.us/blog/2010/10/magnasanti/