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In this paper we present the findings discovered when conducting a perceptual experiment with the goal of analyzing Russian native speaker text juncture partition. This experiment is one of the first forays into applying exper- imental methods to discovering optimal methods of steganography in general and the first to do so on the basis of Russian written texts. The participants were to read through a semantically cohesive phonetically neutral and balanced Russian text that was modified to exclude any spaces, capital letters, paragraph indicators and punctuation symbols. The participants were further asked to divide the re- sulting string of symbols into paragraphs, phrases, syntagmas and words. The experiment goal was to discover statistically notable junctures with the prospect of analyzing and comparing their discovery rates in all four mentioned juncture paradigms. The results allow to determine prospective optimal minimal text mod- ifications for the use of steganographic trigger-containers.