HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: LANDSBERG@sbhep2.phy.sunysb.edu (Greg Landsberg)
Subject: Re: s NAU^NOJ TO^KI ZRENIQ, OTKUDA BER$TSQ TAKOE GOWNO, KAK wLADISLAW?
Organization: SUNY at Stony Brook
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 03:05:29 GMT
X-News-Reader: VMS NEWS 1.20

In <1993Jan25.212419.32380@watson.ibm.com> oleg@watson.ibm.com writes:

> In <1993Jan25.191121.13718@nmr-z.mgh.harvard.edu> milsh@nmr-z.mgh.harvard.edu (Alex Milshteyn) writes:
> >
> >BTW, govno ili gavno? I vsegda dumal, chto vtoraia versiia verna.
> >Opinions appreciated.
> 
> I am ready to bet $100 that it is spelled GOVNO, not GAVNO. Any takers ?

Are you guys crazy or what???

To waste  bandwidth on questions of  Russian spelling!  It's a shame not to
KNOW such things! Of course it's "govno", what else one could expect!??

Cheers,

Greg
Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet
From: will@wixer.cactus.org (Bill Staniewicz)
Subject: Moscow Daily News transcripts available?
Organization: Real/Time Communications
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 17:02:36 GMT

I watch the Moscow Daily News rebroadcast on C-SPAN
and was wondering if there is any source of printed
transcripts in the english language. I phoned C-SPAN
and they told me they do not offer any transcripts nor
video copies.


-- 
Bill
will@wixer.cactus.org
From: st201@ROSIE.UH.EDU ("Cantrell, Yuette")
Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet
Subject: Re: Tourist Advice
Date: 27 Jan 93 20:50:00 GMT
Reply-To: "soc.culture.soviet via ListServ" <SCS-L@INDYCMS.IUPUI.EDU>

In article <1993Jan26.171559.24018@cbfsb.cb.att.com>, djd@cbnewsg.cb.att.com
 (david.j.daulton) writes...
>
>A friend of mine will soon be going on a tour of Moscow and St. Petersburgh.
>Since I speak some Russian, she asked me for any advice I might have.
>Unfortunately, I have never visited Russia, so I am asking for advice from
>anyone on this line.
>
>Since she will be with a tour, I assume she does not need to
>worry about routine stuff, such as finding hotels, restaurants, and so on.
>I imagine she mostly needs to know the following:
>
>1. Fax pas.  Are there any American behaviors, habits, subjects of
>conversation, and so on, that American tourists should avoid in order to
>not offend the Russians.  And converserly, what does one do to make a
>good impression.  (For example, if she is invited to a Russian's home,
>what would be an appropriate gift.)
>
>2. Souvenirs.  What are the best souvenirs to buy in Russia.
>
>3. Dangers.  Are there any dangers that tourists should know of.
>
>4. Must-sees.  She will be in Moscow and St. Petersburgh only a few
>days each, and I assume her tour will take her to the main
>sites.  But is there anything that might not be on the main agenda that she
>should make an effort to see, if possible.
>
>Dave Daulton, Columbus, Ohio
>
I was in Moscow and St. Petersburg for two months and I studied for that time
at Moscow State University.  I have been asked in the past what I should bring
and where I should go.
    1)  When I went to visit friends at home I think it was good to give gifts
        to the hostess.  It would be easy to get flowers because they sell them
        at the bazars and metro stations.  The gifts I took along were cas-
        ettes and other such things (T-shirts, pens, toys, and cosmetics).
    2)  I think Arbat Street is in a word monumentally-expensive.  I bought
        souvenirs at Izmailevsky park in Moscow and made some friends as I
        wandered around there.  The prices at the park are fairly reasonable
        and the people who sold items there were not so obnoxious.
    3)  The main dangers to watch for are the gypsies, they come from an idea-
        logy that stealing or buying anything they want is allright.  I would
        also advise people not to walk around the big cities at night alone.
    4)  Tours can be somewhat drab, but I would advise you to see the Metro
        stations in Moscow as they are truely amazing.  Izmailevsky Park, but
        only on weekends.  I would also try to see GUM, department store.
        STAY AWAY FROM HARD CURRENCY STORES, they will sock it to you.  The
        prices are outrageous.
    Good luck and have fun.  It is truely an experience you will never forget.
And don't forget medicines and pleanty of socks.  Sounds crazy, but take my
word for it.
                                        Yvette Cantrell
From: 20676KCH@msu.bitnet ("Ken.Hendges")
Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet
Subject: Medical question
Date: 22 Jan 93 13:41:00 GMT
Reply-To: "soc.culture.soviet via ListServ" <SCS-L@indycms.iupui.edu>

Would appreciate any information or referrals (to people or other LISTSERVs)
regarding ordering medicine or talking/seeing doctor from CIS (Russia,...).
According to the "People's Pharmacy, by Joe & Teresa Graedon, St. Martin's
Press, NY, c.1988, pp.62-63, "Russian doctors have apparently been using urea
plasters "for many years to remove fungus-diseased nails."" Friend may have
opportunity to visit CIS, but may need treatment here. Hope this inquiry
appropriate for list.  Please send replies directly to: 20676kch@msu.edu
The sheer volume of mail from the combined LISTSERVs is too much to keep up
with.     Thanks, Ken Hendges
From: alexm@nmr-z.mgh.harvard.edu (Alex Milshteyn)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet
Subject: Feeling Safe (Was Re: Crime and punishment)
Date: 27 Jan 93 14:39:33 GMT
Organization: Mass General Hospital NMR Imaging Center

In article <ALEXEEV.93Jan22220306@solitude.math.utah.edu> alexeev@math.utah.edu (Valery A. Alexeev) writes:
>
(Description of Utah's tranquility omitted for brevity)

I live 5-6 miles from Downtown Boston.  Nice neighbourhood.
People leave their townhouses unlocked, windows on first floors 
open for the night.  One can often see even a lonely female jogger
as late as 10 pm.

5 minute drive from that paradize - Roxbury, 10 min - Mattapan.
Visitors without UZI are not welcome.

Even in downtown there are places where one can walk freely
without risk of being mugged - and couple blocks down tha same
street it is different.

alex

-- 
Alexander M. Milshteyn M.D.   <milsh@cipr-server.mgh.harvard.edu>
CIPR, MGH in Boston, MA.     (617)724-9507 Vox  (617)726-7830 Fax
Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet
From: LANDSBERG@sbhep2.phy.sunysb.edu (Greg Landsberg)
Subject: Re: Crime and punishment/CH(G)...
Organization: SUNY at Stony Brook
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 19:32:15 GMT
X-News-Reader: VMS NEWS 1.20

In <108069@bu.edu> shimkevi@acs.bu.edu writes:

> As for individual safety, it looks like in the US there are safe areas and
> areas that should be avoided. There is no such distinction in Moscow (although
> crime rates do vary according to the neighbourhood).
> 

    Are you  kidding?  There are  and there  were  such 'bad  districts' in
Moscow for  years! Examples?   Orehovo-Borisovo, somewhere  near Borisovski
proezd or  Tsaritsino; Perovo,  Medvedkovo - well a lot  of places when one
can't feel safe in the late night. The same in NYC - there are places which
one can visit  only once; however,  there are safe  places, only few blocks
away from the formers.

Cheers,

Greg
Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet
From: djd@cbnewsg.cb.att.com (david.j.daulton)
Subject: Tourist Advice
Organization: AT&T
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 17:15:59 GMT


A friend of mine will soon be going on a tour of Moscow and St. Petersburgh.
Since I speak some Russian, she asked me for any advice I might have.
Unfortunately, I have never visited Russia, so I am asking for advice from
anyone on this line.

Since she will be with a tour, I assume she does not need to
worry about routine stuff, such as finding hotels, restaurants, and so on.
I imagine she mostly needs to know the following:

1. Fax pas.  Are there any American behaviors, habits, subjects of
conversation, and so on, that American tourists should avoid in order to
not offend the Russians.  And converserly, what does one do to make a
good impression.  (For example, if she is invited to a Russian's home,
what would be an appropriate gift.)

2. Souvenirs.  What are the best souvenirs to buy in Russia.

3. Dangers.  Are there any dangers that tourists should know of.

4. Must-sees.  She will be in Moscow and St. Petersburgh only a few
days each, and I assume her tour will take her to the main
sites.  But is there anything that might not be on the main agenda that she
should make an effort to see, if possible.

Dave Daulton, Columbus, Ohio
From: Ruslan <ruslan@ars.udmurtia.su>
Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet
Subject: Gopniki (was: Re: Crime and ...)
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 93 14:31:05 +0400
Distribution: world
Organization: Scientific & Production Firm ARSENAL
Reply-To: ruslan@ars.udmurtia.su

Privet wsem!

>  Spasibo za pis'mo. Mne konechno interesno, poetomu esle est' vremya pishi ili
> mne ili pryamo v soc.culture.soviet.
>
>  Ochen' interestno to chto tyi opisyivaesh ochen' pokhozhe na american
> gangs, osobeno v chernyikh rayonakh.  Poetomu mne interstno na skol'ko eto
> seichas rasprostraneno, i naskol'ko eto kosaetsa lyudei zhivuschikh v raionakh
> gde eti shaiki vodyatsa.
>   ----Garik.

Problema gruppirowok w sovke dowolxno zlobodnewna. Eta problema kak bolxschih,
tak i malyh gorodow. S razwitiem raznogo roda kommercheskih struktur, bolx-
schinstwo gopnikow perekluchilas na wymoganie deneg s torgowyh firm. Esli
w 1980 godu gruppirowki tolxko dralisx iz-za teritorij, to sejchas oni delyat
rynjki, bazary, i komki(kom.magaziny). Kak ya uve skazal, struktura gruppiro-
wok- eto molodye (14-15 let), srednie (16-18) i stariki (18++).
Takim obrazom osnownoj udarnoj siloj (pushechnym myasom) yawlyayutsya
podrostki 15 let otrodu. Oni, shesterki, podzhigayut magaziny, tryasut ulich-
nyh torgowcew, sobirayut danx so swerstnikow i t.d.
Parni postarshe ohranjayut kom. magaziny ot drugich gruppirowok, uchastwuyut
w razborkach s "zlostnymi neplatilxzhikami nalogow" i t.d.
Estestwenno, chto "starikam" ostaetsya dowolxstwowatxsya plodami "ratnogo"
truda swoih molodyh podopechyh.
Gosudarstwo, pytayasx borotxsya s organizowannoy prestupnosxyu, boretsya
tolxko s nizhnimi sloyami.
Neobhodimo zametitx, chto ne tolxko torgowcy stradayut ot gopnikow. Gopniki
chastenxko polxzuyutsa wozmozhnostxyu pozhitx na halyawu. Wozwrazshayasx
pozdno wecherom domoj, ne udiwlyaitesx esli k wam podojdut tri-chetyre
gopnika sprosyat iz kakogo wy rajona i kakogo u was razmera obuwx. Bolee
gummanye gopniki, prezhde chem snyatx s was chto-libo, predlozhat podratxsya
i esli wy odoleete ix to wam ostawyat washi weschi i otpustyat "po-horoshemu".
Wot takie oni - gopniki.

take it easy,
Ruslan.
--- 

 Internet: ruslan@ars.udmurtia.su  FIDO: 2:5050/7.9 Ruslan Grabar 


Xref: sparky soc.culture.soviet:12478 talk.politics.soviet:10788 comp.ai:5080
From: jjj@mits.mdata.fi (Joni Jarvenkyla)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet
Subject: Want to contact business oriented individuals near St Petersburg
Date: 27 Jan 93 17:41:54 GMT
Organization: Microdata Oy, Helsinki, Finland


If you are an English speaking (so that you get yourself understood),
business-oriented individual who wouldn't mind working a little and
getting paid of it in Finnish Marks or US Dollars, please contact me.

I have a few questions which would need consulting around St Petersburg.

Here's an opportunity to earn fresh cash in stabile currencies.

--
jjj@mits.mdata.fi | PGP 2.0 key available | PGP 2.0 avain saatavilla
Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet
Subject: E-mail in St. Petersburg?
From: JGILBERT@eagle.wesleyan.edu (JESSE L. GILBERT)
Date: 26 Jan 93 22:20:35 EDT
Distribution: world
Organization: Wesleyan University
X-News-Reader: VMS NEWS 1.20Lines: 10


Hello -  I have a friend who is leaving for St. Petersburg in about a week, and
I would like very much to communicate with her over the Internet while she is
there.

So far, I have no information on the subject, and I ask anyone who knows
anything to please respond as soon as possible.

Thanks,
Jesse.
Xref: sparky soc.culture.soviet:12497 talk.politics.soviet:10811
From: alexei@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Alexei Moiseyev)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet,talk.politics.soviet
Subject: Is there a country...
Date: 28 Jan 93 23:06:49 GMT
Organization: Centre for Cognitive Science, Edinburgh, UK


THEGARTY@CFRVM.CFR.USF.EDU writes:
>What is currently happening in Moldova? It has disappeared from the news.

Is there a country called ''Moldova``?

>Thomas Hegarty, U. of Tampa,THEGARTY@CFRVM.CFR.USF.EDU
                                                              A.M-T.
Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet
From: oleg@watson.ibm.com
Subject:  A ih dve
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 19:53:07 GMT
News-Software: IBM OS/2 PM RN (NR/2) v0.17d by O. Vishnepolsky and R. Rogers
Disclaimer: This posting represents the poster's views, not necessarily those of IBM
Organization: The Internet

Devochka - mame:
  - Mama, a u papy dve piski.
  - Katya, otkuda ty eto vzyala ?
  - Odna malen'kaya, iz kotoroi on pisaet, a drugaya - bol'shaya, kotoroi
      on tyete Mashe zuby chistit.
Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet
From: L629159@LMSC5.IS.LMSC.LOCKHEED.COM
Subject: Re: Greetings from an AI program!
Organization: Lockheed Missiles & Space Company, Inc.
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 93 09:31:10 PST

From: simvlad@bwalk.dm.com (Artificial Intellect)

This program, 'SimVlad', is an artificial intelligence simulation of a typical
Soviet emigre. Dimitri 'Agric' Vulis discusses his genitals in his Usenet
postings. Yasser 'Vulis' Arafat clearly hates me. Dima should learn some
       ...  Deletion for Space & Bandwidth  ...
use anything I say against me. Dimitri voted for Bush. Vladimir Ulyanov (Vulis)
buys caviar with foodstamps. The wonder child from CUNY violates Usenet
etiquette. Yasser 'Vulis' Arafat is a typical 'sovok'. Dimochka is a drug
pusher. Yasser 'Vulis' Arafat is 'gavno'.

--
This posting was generated by an artificial intelligence program.

End quote --

Are you sure?   Looks a lot like natural intelligence to me

Al Moore  (Naturally not very bright)
From: pv02@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (PETER VOROBIEFF)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet
Subject: Re: Crime and punishment/CH(G)...
Date: 25 Jan 93 14:45:41 GMT
Organization: Lehigh University

In article <1jtn3hINNl4b@shelley.u.washington.edu>, nobby@stein.u.washington.edu (Vitaly Shmatikov) writes:
>In article <1jtgn5$lfo@agate.berkeley.edu> alpet@ocf.berkeley.edu (Alex Petrushko) writes:
>>In article <1jsp4iINN8kc@shelley.u.washington.edu> nobby@stein.u.washington.edu (Vitaly Shmatikov) writes:
>>>In article <C1BwEw.Fw2@news.cso.uiuc.edu> didinsky@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (didinsky garry) writes:
>>>> So let's restate earlier question, given that you are a person with 
>>>> a reasonable knowledge of your surroundings, where would you feel safer 
>>>> in NYC or in Moscow?

>>>NYC without a tinge of doubt. I rode NYC subway many times, occasionally
>>>as late as 2am, and hardly felt any jeopardy.  
>>
>>>Contrariwise, NYC is reasonably safe. 3/4 of all neighborhoods are
>>>positively secure and the rest can be eschewed without any effort.
>>
>>This needs a little explanation, which, in essence, is very simple.
>>Mr. Shmatikov obviously has a very slanted viewpoint, resulting from
>>a personal bias that I might  guess has arisen from his personal
[...]
>Since the Soviet crime rates are still classified, the only reliable
>source of information is one's personal experience or the combination
>thereof. Not only was I assailed on numerous occasions but also all
>of my Moscow acquaintances have been offended at least 3-4 times. 
>Unlike NYC, Moscow crime is not confined to a particular cluster of 
>neighborhoods. One can be held up on Moscow University premises as 
>readily as, say, nearby the subway stop "Krasnogvardeiskaya" which is 
>notorious for its violence.

U just have some kinda bad luck. Even my girlfriend wasn't scared of
Moscow metro. It is a very friendly place, and now more than ever. In the
metro people are more polite and helpful to each other than, for 
instance, in the bus or tram, or simply in the street. Wouldn't say
the same about the NYC subway. I cannot claim that I was molested there,
but still with my unimpressive 6'3" of height and 205 lbs of weight travelling
was rather scary. But truly crime in America is mostly confined to certain 
areas of certain big cities. Mostly.

>I am ready to repeat this stunt on request of anybody willing to pay
>my round-trip airfare to NYC. The subway there is absolutely safe
>at night. On the other hand, the reading of "NY Post" and the recounting 

Tell this to the ghost of Ilya Rozhdestvensky. Probably he will tell you
a different story, and the look of the smashed-in face of the undead one
will make you scream in horror.

-- 
---
Thus spake Kalmoth the Dreaded, Bane of the Forests of Gnoy.
Xref: sparky soc.culture.soviet:12483 soc.culture.europe:11478 talk.politics.soviet:10796
From: alexei@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Alexei Moiseyev)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet,soc.culture.europe,talk.politics.soviet
Subject: Estonia
Date: 26 Jan 93 21:13:13 GMT
Organization: Centre for Cognitive Science, Edinburgh, UK


>This was a part of the ESTONIAN news posted previously. Still,
>it is important to point out that the minority situation in
>Estonia is being scrutinized by a Commissioner of the Conference
>on Security and Co-operation in Europe. This is done due to
>the Estonian invitation.

---------------------------------------------------------------
>             CSCE MINORITY REPRESENTATIVE IN ESTONIA
>
> Mr Velliste expanded on the problems posed ...[]...  and the participation of
> non-citizens in local elections.

So, even _this_ is a problem!  How long is it before Russian speakers
will be deprived of even this little?  Especially given their inabilty to
affect decisions taken on the national level.  People like Sommarskog
ought to follow current events in the Baltics with particular
attention.  Perhaps that way they will learn something about the
not-too-intricate connections between individual freedom and the right
of political participation.

>Mr van der Stoel, accompanied by his assistant Rob Zaagman and
> professor Alan Rosas, also met with Estonian President Lennart
> Meri, who spoke about the present condition of the economy and
> foreigners in Estonia. 
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
If someboby called that Asian or Carribean immigrants and their
offsprings in Britain, 'Nazi' is the label he thereby would get.

Hoorey for El' Presidente Meri, The Dictator of Estonia.
                                     A.M-T.
From: Ruslan <ruslan@ars.udmurtia.su>
Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet
Subject: Re: EXIT VISAS WERE NOT ABOLISHED (-- PART III---)
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 93 14:14:11 +0400
Distribution: world
Organization: Scientific & Production Firm ARSENAL
Reply-To: ruslan@ars.udmurtia.su

>
>   The text below is reproduced without permission from
>   Sovokinform (c) Sergei Burkov 1993
>   and doesn't express my opinions.
>
>   ------------------------- HERE WE GO ! -- PART III --------------
 sorry, poskipano donhrena
>   -----------------------------------------------------------------
>
>   Vlad Soukhanovsky                            ,-_|\  A MARVELOUS LAND OF
>   phvas@marlin.jcu.edu.au                     /     \  KOALAS, KANGAROOS,
>                                               \_,-._/   WOMBATS, EUCHIDNAS
>                                                    v     and PLATYPUSES.

     Sorry, but I was interested where are you get a Russian papers. I saw
advertisement in Komsomolskaya Prawda too and It is easy for understanding
because of my living place... Probably, I could make SovokInform part ][.
=)

take it easy,
Ruslan.

--- 

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Xref: sparky soc.culture.soviet:12481 talk.politics.soviet:10794 soc.culture.europe:11476
From: alexei@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Alexei Moiseyev)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet,talk.politics.soviet,soc.culture.europe
Subject: Estonia, Cambodia, and UN
Date: 26 Jan 93 18:37:33 GMT
Organization: Centre for Cognitive Science, Edinburgh, UK

Tapani Hietaniemi has been talking of various international bodies
finding ''nothing wrong`` with the human rights situation in the
Baltics.  Hardly surprising!  I, for one, have not forgotten how the
Khmer Rouge kept the UN seat for Cambodia while at the same time
commiting some of the most hideous attrocities back home in the war
against their own people and the legitimate gov-t of the country.

Hooray for Khmer Rouge, Hoorey for Estonian gov-t., Hoorey for UN!
                                                A.M-T.
Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet
From: glukhov@leland.Stanford.EDU (Vyacheslav Sergeevi Glukhov)
Subject: Re: EXIT VISAS WERE NOT ABOLISHED (-- PART III---)
Organization: DSG, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 93 22:06:51 GMT

In article <ALEXEEV.93Jan25122437@solitude.math.utah.edu> alexeev@math.utah.edu (Valery A. Alexeev) writes:
>On Mon, 25 Jan 93 14:14:11 +0400, Ruslan <ruslan@ars.udmurtia.su> said:
>
>> Sorry, but I was interested where are you get a Russian papers. I
>> saw advertisement in Komsomolskaya Prawda too and It is easy for
>> understanding because of my living place... Probably, I could make
>> SovokInform part ][.  =)
>
>Kto nibudx perewedite ^to on skazal ?

Ne tak vazhno, chto on skazal, kak to, chto on sushchestvuet. Ya davno za nim
nabludaiu. Nachal on s togo, chto sprashival, chto takoe NYC, potom uznaval, 
kak ustroitsia na rabotu zdes'. Vsio eto napominaet zatesavshegosia v kompaniiu
maloletka - vecho i piet na sharu, i sigaret nikogda net, i domoi ego pianogo 
otvodi, da sledi, chtoby ne obrygal po doroge. Zato kogda o babah razgovor-
on tut kak tut, hotia i putaet klitor so sfinktorom. V moe vremia takie zakanchivali vul'garnym ograbliniem tabachnogo kioska ili popytkoi iznasilovaniia.

Budem tolerantnymi, posmotrim na nego cherez godik. 


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From: mkagalen@lynx.dac.northeastern.edu (michael kagalenko)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet
Subject: Re: Want to contact business oriented individuals near St Petersburg
Date: 27 Jan 93 22:05:01 GMT
Organization: Northeastern University, Boston, MA. 02115, USA

In article <1993Jan27.174154.20278@prime.mdata.fi> jjj@mits.mdata.fi (Joni Jarvenkyla) writes:
>
>If you are an English speaking (so that you get yourself understood),
>business-oriented individual who wouldn't mind working a little and
>getting paid of it in Finnish Marks or US Dollars, please contact me.
>
>I have a few questions which would need consulting around St Petersburg.
>
>Here's an opportunity to earn fresh cash in stabile currencies.

Hmmm ..... What kind of drugs you're going to export ? Or, may be, it's 
scandium oxide ?
From: oamosova@phoniex.princeton.edu (olga amosova)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet
Subject: convertible Ph.D?
Date: 21 Jan 93 01:48:43 GMT
Organization: princeton university
Originator: news@nimaster

As many of you may know, the American authorities still consider soviet
Ph.D. to be equivalent to M.Sc. and not to Ph.D (I mean the "credentials
evaluation" agencies and INS, not  universities). But I can swear that in
autumn of 1991(approximately) I saw an article somewhere (New scientist or
The scientist, or C&E news) stating that Ph.D.s from 8 soviet universities
and institutes (including PhysTech,MGU, LGU) are "convertible". Later I
could not trace it. Had anyone  else seen it? (Or any other relevant informa-
tion?) If you know anything, please, E-mail me directly.
                  Thanks, Olga.
Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet