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From: eab@msc.edu (Edward Bertsch)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet,soc.penpals
Subject: Pen-pal service /Natalia/ ??
Date: 1 Sep 92 00:33:54 GMT
Organization: Minnesota Supercomputer Center, Minneapolis, MN


Hello all.

I have several female russian pen-pals.  I would like more, and have
now found myself in an interesting situation.  Somehow, my address and
a brief description (not entirely accurate due to having been taken
out of context from a letter, I believe) has been picked up by some
international pen-pal company (some brand new russian for-profit company,
no doubt).  So now I am receiving a fair number of letters from Russian
women, although some are writing me in Russian.  This is also not
a problem yet, as I know someone who can translate them for me, and
I write them back and ask them to write only in English, no matter how
bad their english may be.

My main question is does anyone know more about this NATALIA or whatever
it is called pen-pal introduction service, and where I may write to them
to ask how they got my name and if I can provide them with a more
accurate description and photo even (if they're going to advertise me,
I may as well see how I'm being advertised!)

For those in Russia or who otherwise know Russian women who would like
a 26 year old tall (1.96 meters) American pen-pal, feel free to give
them my address below.  I would like to hear from college-educated women, 
and would appreciate a photo.

Thanks much.

P.S. At this time I am happy with the pen-pals I have and am not trying
     to 'get rid of' any of them.  Please don't write me asking for
     Russian pen-pals as I'd like more than I have and don't want to
     'give away' any right now.  If this situation changes I will post
     a message here, or in soc.penpals
--

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Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet
From: simon1@bass.bu.edu (Simon Streltsov)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet
Subject: Re: Russian Culture through California sunshades
Date: 4 Sep 92 16:34:39 GMT
Reply-To: simon1@bass.bu.edu (Simon Streltsov)
Followup-To: soc.culture.soviet
Organization: Boston University

In article <1992Sep4.153328.9463@cbnewsi.cb.att.com> sasha@cbnewsi.cb.att.com (alexander.kostomaroff) writes:
>
>Ms. Patricia M. Schwarz of Caltec, Pasadena who lately has been quite
>active on SCS bridging the Shafarevich vs. NAS discussion with
>subjects of female/minorities/animal/rain forest/etc abuse,
>promulgated:

Da shto Vi vse nakinylic' na damy.

Even is she is somewhat politically correct,
and even is she cites me as 653w4232@bu.edu,
she is still dama.

After all she is going to Russia in a week,
she'll get enuf of rudeness over there.
Xref: sparky soc.culture.soviet:6965 soc.culture.nordic:5411
From: sommar@enea.se (Erland Sommarskog)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet,soc.culture.nordic
Subject: Re: Koenigsberg/Kaliningrad
Date: 31 Aug 92 07:49:36 GMT
Organization: Enea Data AB

Yury M. Mukharsky (muh@physics.Berkeley.EDU) writes:
>I can belive someone can be so ignorant as to call Finno-Swedesh city
>of Viipuri by it's Soviet name Vyborg. :)

Oh, it's not that bad. It's "Viborg" in Swedish.
-- 
Erland Sommarskog - ENEA Data, Stockholm - sommar@enea.se
F|rst till kvarn f}r f|rst vankiva
Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet,talk.politics.soviet
From: avdeyev@dsf58a.desy.de (Dmitry Avdeyev)
Subject: Re: need accronym help
Organization: Deutches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY)
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 09:07:21 GMT

avg@rodan.UU.NET (Vadim Antonov) writes:

>In article <1992Aug26.131020.1259@guvax.georgetown.edu> mchenry@guvax.georgetown.edu writes:
>>I need some help with acronyms.

[...]

>>OOO "AIS"

>??? One O is surely stands for "Obshestvo" (Society) or "Ob'yedinenie"
>(Joint Enterprise) (more likely). Two other Os i can't guess.

"OOO" stands for "Obshestvo s Ogranichennoj Otvetstvennost'yu",
which is equal to "Ltd."

[...]

>>TOO "FAL'KON"

>??? I'm not sure, but it can stand for "Tovarno-Optovoye Ob'yedinenie"
>(a kinda of retail union -- can't find an appropriate English term).

It's another version of "OOO" - "Tovarishestvo s Ogranichennoj
otvetstvennost'yu". But it means the same - Ltd.

>--vadim

Dima

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Computer networks analyst	USG DESY, Hamburg

Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet
From: viznyuk@physics.ucla.edu (Sergei Viznyuk)
Subject: Re: Koenigsberg/Kaliningrad
Organization: UCLA Department of Physics
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 92 22:28:48 GMT

In article <1992Sep2.170614.11735@jyu.fi> ryyti@jyu.fi (Jarmo Ryyti) writes:
>
>>S.V.:
>>No, better welcome to Siberia ! I bet Siberia is better
>>suited to resettle Finns than poluted Karelia. So
>>if Jarmo or other Finns decide to go there I could
>>give some directions.
>>Sincerely,
>>Serega
>
>Dear Serega,
>Which places you would recommend? Just some time ago there was 
>recovered along Finnish TV around Omsk a finnish community,
>they have been holidaying over there since 19th century when
>The Tsarist police expelled those people there. 
>I would prefer a nice calm place with no mosquitoes, on the
>sunset side of a lake.
>Good connections from here would be vital.

  I regret to inform you, dear Jarmo, that
you missed your chances not so long ago.
Just ten years back you could simply come
to Leningrad and declare yourself an American
spy and they would escort you to Siberia FOR FREE !
I fear now you would have to go all by yourself.
  But despite such an inconvenience, you still
have some opportunity. But ...mosquitoes...
as far as I know they are still not among
endangered species there...But what about Finland ?
Have the cruel Finns exterminated all those lovely
creatures in their swamps ?
  Ah, Sunset Blvd....Beverly Hills....Santa
Monica bay....sorry...I forgot... So you want
a sunset side of the lake ? Do you prefer
lake in a forest, savanna, desert, or maybe in
a mountains ? Just write me promptly - I gonna
make a reservations for you, my dear friend.
 Sincerely,
 Serega
Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet
From: ges@vsnhdd.cern.ch (Sergej Gerassimov)
Subject: Modem link with Moscow
Originator: ges@vsnhdd
Organization: European Organization for Nuclear Research, Geneva
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 15:27:06 GMT

  Hello all!
Has anybody experience of computer link with Moscow using modem via
public telephone network? It is rumoured that if the call from abroad
is recognized (somewhere on international telephone station in Moscow) 
like modem call but not a voice or fax, it is immediately cut off. 
  Does anyone knows is it truth or not?
                                               Thanks!
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From: verbit@brauer.harvard.edu (Mikhail S. Verbitsky)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet
Subject: Re: Armand and Benjamin
Date: 28 Aug 92 04:42:30 GMT
Article-I.D.: husc3.1992Aug28.004231.15171
Organization: Dept. of Math, Harvard Univ.

In article <9208261602.AA03371@feds46.Prime.COM> Mark Markish writes:
>Dr. Armand Hammer has recently been mentioned on the newsgroup;
>well, today is the right time to commemorate him.

>70 years ago, on the 13/26 of August, 1922, Metropolitan Benjamin of
>Petrograd faced the firing squad, convicted of hindering the efforts
>which Doc Hammer was such an eager and successfil participant of:
>the confiscation of Church valuables and selling them abroad.

>As comrade Lenin said with this regard, "the more reactionary clergy
>we can put to death under this pretext, the better". This advise was
>taken to the heart by CheKa: during 1922, according to the published
>data only, about 2600 clergymen, 2000 monks, and 3600 nuns were executed.

>The detailed account of this campaign, as far as I remember, has been
>given by Solzhenitsyn, among other authors.

Armand Hammer remained to be a friend of Soviet Union till his death,
when he was about 90 years old, as well as his numerous
family. I remember him coming to Russia in 80-ies with 
art exgibition and some kind of
medical mission (to cure cancer?). He got a real profit
on export of a resources from Soviets in 20-ies and 
(as Solzh. wrote) got much of Russian art objects in 30-ies
for less than bargain prices. He was a pensil fabricant,
as far as I remember. The most funny thing was that
when he died and perestroyka started there were published
a lot of evidence that he was an agent of KGB and 
even his capitals and plants were in fact Soviets-owned; 
he was just a cover for a spy/propaganda/commercial 
activity. I don't think this is known in West yet :)

Misha.
	
Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet
From: mkramer@world.std.com (Mark W Kramer)
Subject: russian alt. medical pain control methods
Summary: u.s. healthworker asks info on russian non-drug pain control
Keywords: medicine, cancer, pain, non-traditional medicine
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 17:55:12 GMT

My lunatic cousin, who runs a hospice in Dallas and is quite a wonderful
character and a great medical administrator, writes: 
  I'm speaking on non-traditional options for pain control--hypnosis,
  visualization, meditation, crystals...and I heard from a colleague
  who visited a hospice in Russia last fall that there is NO morphine 
  available, but that patients were pain free and working with tantric
  bells and chakras.  I want to know anything at all about this or any 
  other method of pain management in the latter stages of cancer.  My
  understanding of the bells is that the tones relate to or correspond
  with one of the seven chakras of the body and that this can be 
  utilized to manage pain in the areas of the chakras.  I know this 
  is far out from your perspective, but any hoep with your Russian 
  contacts would be really wonderful.  

I've run into all sorts of psychic and quaint health care in the former
S.U., from specialized massage to hydrotherapy to mudbaths to psi
vibrations eminating from those TV's that burst into flames anyhow. 
I'd appreciate hearing from anyone with knowledge or leads.  Cuz Susan is
a major player in hospice administration, and effective lore will go
planetary in no time, to the benefit of many, no doubt.
Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet
From: INIA100@INDYCMS.IUPUI.EDU (r Fredland)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet
Subject: (none)
Date: 28 Aug 92 19:00:42 GMT
Reply-To: "soc.culture.soviet via ListServ" <SCS-L@indycms.iupui.edu>

First off, please forgive us if you receive this message more than once!!
During the fall semester of 1992, a course on U.S. foreign policy will be offer
ed at Indiana Univ.-Purdue Univ. at Indianapolis (Indiana, USA).As the instruct
or, I am interested in connecting my students with students abroad via bitnet (
electronic mail). My hope is to provide all of the students the opportunity to
discuss and debate American foreign policy. Our students will be available to "
talk" with their peers abroad from approximately 1 September 1992 through 1 Dec
ember 1992 using e-mail. Interested individuals can contact me for further deta
ils at: INIA100@INDYCMS  Thanks.  Dick Fredland Ph.D.
From: avsht@sph.spb.su (Alexander Shturm)
Subject: HELP !!!
Reply-To: avsht@sph.spb.su
Organization: Center SuperPhysica
Date: Wed, 02 Sep 92 00:05:10 +0400

    Dear netters,

    Probably, you are very busy people, but, please, pay attention to
this message.

    Please, help alone russian 25-years-old woman with the one-month
baby! They need your help very much!

    Believe me, she is very nice, kind and sweetheart person.
Unfortunately, the living obstacles doesn't allow her to get if only a
bit of happiness. She is really worthy of compassion.
You know, this is wild Russia, where every natural human wish is still
impossible to realize... And she with baby suffer a lot from that.

    We (her friends) are trying to help her. Unfortunately we are able
to provide only spiritual support, but we cannot resolve completely her
financial needs.

    She gets only 60% of the minimal level of poverty (this is allowance
for the baby). More precisely, she will get them in the future (how
soon - only russian bureaucracy knows that). And this money will be for
both of them! You can not believe me, but this is the truth: being
converted to dollars, this amount of money is $3 (three!!!) per month.
It isn't a mistake, the level of poverty in Russia is 900 rubles/month,
the rate of exchange now is about 170 r/$, you can calculate yourself...

    I understand that it's impossible to help everybody in former Soviet
Union. But this is real chance to help if only one. She needs any help,
and you will do it better than we are doing. Any clothes (for her and for
baby), any food (the same), essentials of life, everything you want you
can send her in usual parcel.

    Since she doesn't correspond to any category of the people getting
Western help, she didn't get any humanitarian aid.

Her address:
    Priemysheva Elena Viacheslavovna
    Budapeshtskaya st., 89-1-13
    St.Petersburg, Russia 192283
Phone number: 7-812-177-0335  (she doesn't speak English, though)

Thank you for your attention!
Any your help will be appreciated very much!

Sincerely yours,
Alexander Shturm


P.S. Please don't answer me to this newsgroup, because I don't read it.
From: fed@sovet.cntc.dubna.su (E.D.Fedyunkin)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet
Subject: Fedyunkin refutes
Date: 1 Sep 92 04:34:12 GMT
Reply-To: fed@sovet.cntc.dubna.su
Organization: Dubna Counsil

> Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet
> From:  lebedev@sovok.cntc.dubna.su (E.Lebedev)
> Subject: [NEWS] Mr. Fedyunkin's interview.
> Message-ID: <AAMuFdf406@sovok.cntc.dubna.su>
> Keywords: gloria mundi sovok mutlu borodin
> Reply-To: lebedev@sovok.cntc.dubna.su
> Organization: Sovok International
> Date: Sat, 15 Feb 92 13:48:38 +0200 (MSK)
> Status: R
>
>            S O V O K   I N T E R N A T I O N A L
>             I n f o r m a t i o n   A g e n c y
>                  editor-in-chief E.Lebedev

> Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet
> From:  lebedev@sovok.cntc.dubna.su (E.Lebedev)
> Subject: [NEWS] Mr. Fedyunkin's interrview - cont 1.
> Message-ID: <AAx-7dg406@sovok.cntc.dubna.su>
> Keywords: gloria mundi sovok mutlu borodin
> Reply-To: lebedev@sovok.cntc.dubna.su
> Organization: Sovok International
> Date: Thu, 27 Aug 92 10:09:47 +0300 (MSD)
> Status: R

> Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet
> From:  lebedev@sovok.cntc.dubna.su (E.Lebedev)
> Subject: [NEWS] Mr. Fedyunkin's interview - cont 2.
> Message-ID: <AAYzOdg406@sovok.cntc.dubna.su>
> Keywords: gloria mundi sovok mutlu borodin transit
> Reply-To: lebedev@sovok.cntc.dubna.su
> Organization: Sovok International
> Date: Fri, 28 Aug 92 05:28:50 +0300 (MSD)
> Status: R

     This interview is mystification.
     I didn't give the interview.
     E-mail ...@sovok.cntc.dubna.su doesn't exist.

             E.Fedyunkin     fed@sovet.cntc.dubna.su
Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet
From: watersjc@NeXTwork.Rose-Hulman.Edu (Jeffrey C Waters)
Subject: Cyrillic via net
Organization: Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 00:58:29 GMT


I'm new to this thing.... but can you send cyrillic characters to  
Russia???
From: sergei@upenn5.hep.upenn.edu (Sergei Borodin)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet
Subject: Re: Professor goes on shooting spree
Date: 25 Aug 92 22:05:07 GMT
Organization: University of Pennsylvania

In article <59884@mimsy.umd.edu> vadik@cs.umd.edu (Vadim Maslov) writes:
#
#Montreal, Canada -- A Concordia University engineering professor went on a
#shooting rampage in protest of unfair practices and not getting tenure at the
#university.

[ deleted] 

# The suspect is Dr. Fabricant of the Dept. of Mechanical Engineering

  Vadim, what does it have to do with soviet.culture? I guess, that 
 honorable Dr. is the kind of person Misha Verbitski is very proud of.
 You know what I mean - guys who have enriched soviet culture, according
 to M.V.'s postings (a couple of month ago).


the following are quotations from Fabrikant:
#   Gandhi considered jail
#   as a must for an honest person.

    Jails in the USA and other capitalistic countries are overfilled
 by honest persons. I didn't manage to study Mr. Gandhi, thanks to Dr.
 for letting us know where to look for honest people.

#    I am prepared for that too.
#   I just regret that I put up with all this filth for twelve years.
#   Make no mistake, I am dead seri

ous in what I am doing. I can not fight
#   all the crooks in the world, but I shall not rest until the bogus
#   scientists in this university are exposed and the Justice is
#   served.''
#
#				V. I. Fabrikant
#
>
 Another fucking revolutionare?  Defenetely, shooting is the best
 way to solve scientific problems. And a machine gun has always been
 the best argument.

 S.B.
From: mmarkish@FEDS46.PRIME.COM (Mark Markish x2799)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet
Subject: Re: Stenka Razin
Date: 28 Aug 92 20:38:23 GMT
Reply-To: "soc.culture.soviet via ListServ" <SCS-L@indycms.iupui.edu>

Q & A :

> Iz-za ostrova na strezhen',  <what is strezhen'?>

Fairway, midstream.

> Tolko noch s nej provozhalsya  <or is it proyakshalsja?>

`Provozzhalsia', to be more precise.

> <V zharkie usta lobzaet>  (I can't remember, just made it up)
> On krasavitzu kniazhnu,

Moschnym vzmaxom obnimaet...
Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet
From: hclase@morgan.ucs.mun.ca (Howard Clase)
Subject: Any duties on gifts to Russians by mail?
Organization: Memorial University of Newfoundland
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 20:14:56 GMT

	We have sent a small parcel to some Russian friends that did get
through.   Although they were unable to afford the price of a stamp to write to
us they did get a message back via some Finnish friends.    Next time we'll
include an International reply coupon.

	But we are also worried that they might have to pay some customs
duties or other taxes on what we send.  Does anyone know about this?

	Howard Clase.


Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet
From: Adam Lawrence Salter <adam@zooid.guild.org>
Subject: Re: Currency exchange in Moscow
Organization: The Zoo of Ids
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 05:34:32 GMT
	<185smqINNntl@agate.berkeley.edu>

In article <185smqINNntl@agate.berkeley.edu>, muh@physics.Berkeley.EDU (Yury M. Mukharsky) writes:
>In article <1992Sep3.141543.22511@shearson.com> brekshyn@shearson.com writes:
>>to change currency there?  I don't want the "official" rate for American dollars,
>>but rather the "true" rate.  Also, what things should one watch out for, i.e.
>>dangerous dealers, unscrupulous (sic) people, et cetera?  Please feel free to
>
>Are these rates different? As far as I know they are not much different,
>and it is better to use official way. Am I wrong? If I am correct me please,
>it is important for me, too.
>
>Of course if you mean really "true" rate, it will be about 30 rubles/dollar or
>so.
>
>Yury


  30 rubles/$? How so? What is that rate called?

                                                                 adam
From: vadim@ohstpy.mps.ohio-state.edu
Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet
Subject: Re: News:Covetckaya nayka daet boi amerikanskoi
Date: 25 Aug 92 19:38:45 GMT

In article <59871@mimsy.umd.edu>, vadik@cs.umd.edu (Vadim Maslov) writes:
> In article <94445@bu.edu> simon1@bass.bu.edu (Simon Streltsov) writes:
>>This afternoon, Mon, 14:00 h PDT, CNN reported that a gunman has killed
>>two people at Concordia University. The gunman was described as a dis-
>>gruntled professor of Mechanical Engineering...
> 
> Yes, this case is talked about very much in universities.
> It is said, that this professor was denied tenure.
> Now many assistant professors around here are wondering
> what they are gonna do if similar thing happens to them.
> 
> Vadim Maslov (not assistant professor).
> -- 
> 
> Vadim Maslov,	Phones: (301) 405-2726, (301) 474-3473
   
       K A P I T A L I Z M   ! ! !
From: eab@msc.edu (Edward Bertsch)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet
Subject: Re: HELP !!!
Date: 3 Sep 92 21:45:32 GMT
Organization: Minnesota Supercomputer Center, Minneapolis, MN


This cost of conversion is why I recommended to send cash only.
As I understand it, cash can be used on the street, and US $ and
other liquid currencies are more valueable than rubles, and have
a more stable value.

In article <IedW9YK00Uh_M25wQp@andrew.cmu.edu>, am2f+@andrew.cmu.edu (Anne Marguerettaz) writes:
|> Wouldn't currency get "lost" somehow if you just sent it by mail? I have
|> already looked into sending checks or money order to some family in
|> Europe and it would have been very expensive for them to cash them..
|> (bank fees etc.). So what would you sugest?
|> 
|> Anya

--

Edward A. Bertsch (eab@msc.edu)   Minnesota Supercomputer Center, Inc.
Operations/User Services          1200 Washington Avenue South
(612) 626-1888 work               Minneapolis, Minnesota  55415
(612) 645-0168 voice mail         [DISCLAIMER: MY OPINIONS; NOT MSCI'S]

      ___________________________________________________
      Dump the Republocrats:      vote Libertarian in '92
      ---------------------------------------------------

% echo "potatoe potato" | spell
potatoe
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From: dleschin@FEDS66.PRIME.COM (Dmitri Leschiner)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet
Subject: Re: Stenka Razin
Date: 28 Aug 92 22:05:02 GMT
Reply-To: "soc.culture.soviet via ListServ" <SCS-L@indycms.iupui.edu>

>> <what is strezhen'?>

>Fairway, midstream.


`Eto-to ya znayu, a vot pochemu "strezhen'"
(chto za koren', chto za suffiks?) nikak ne
mogu soobrazit'. A ved' kogda-to znal.
From: galina@watson.ibm.com (Galina Kofman)_
Subject: Re: Professor goes on shooting spree
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 18:00:03 GMT
Disclaimer: This posting represents the poster's views, not necessarily those of IBM
Organization: IBM T.J. Watson Research Center

>
> 1) In the late seventies a math professor at Stanford was killed by a graduate
> student with a hammer.  I don't recall the exact number but the student had
> been working on a Ph.D. for over ten (I think) years.
>
18 yeas.  The guy was up for parole a few years ago, but I think he did not
get it, because he publicly announced that he had no remorse.

>
> Craig Rasmussen
> Space Physics Research Laboratory
> University of Michigan
> rasmussen@sprlc.sprl.umich.edu
>
> -----------------------------------------
> --
>
> Vadim Maslov, Phones: (301) 405-2726, (301) 474-3473

Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet