HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: didinsky@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (didinsky garry)
Subject: Re: Crime and punishment/CH(G)...
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 22:21:14 GMT

pv02@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (PETER VOROBIEFF) writes:

>The most fast growing crime was theft. In particular, theft of food and cattle,
>poaching and other illegal ways of obtaining something edible. Among crimes 

Don't mean to sound stupid, but is theft of cattle part of some organized crime
or is it just some random city folks way of feeding their families?

---Garik.
Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet,talk.politics.soviet
From: phvas@marlin.jcu.edu.au (Vlad Soukhanovsky)
Subject: SovokInform (Was: EXIT VISAS ...)
Summary: zhopa
Keywords: sovokinform 
Organization: James Cook University
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 93 07:05:48 GMT

This lastest release of SovokInform is reproduced without permission and
doesn't express my opinions.

(c) SovokInform, Sergei Burkov, 1993.

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$1 = 525 rub, a to i >
-Nekotorye ceny v Msk (za 1 kg):
karamel		250rub $0.5
citrusy		400	0.8    		
banany	       1500	3
vinograd	800	1.5
kartoshka	 40	0.08
myaso (gos)	600	1.1
myaso (bazar)  1000	2
karp (zhivoj)	200	0.4
moloko		 55	0.1
tvorog		250	0.5
smetana		400	0.8
metro		  3	0.005 (=0.5 c)
windsurfing fin1500 	3

Molochnyh produktov v magazinah pochti net, est libo na bazarah, libo s koles;
chtoby kupit po vysheukazannoj cene, nuzhno esche i stoyat v ochered.

Inflyaciya = 10% v nedelyu

-Bilet na modnuyu diskoteku $15, u vhoda ohrana s dub'em i podkova-magnit, kak
v aeroportu. Nesmotrya na eto - dikie draki.
-V kafe Kosmos - pivbar s nemeckim pivom i russkim striptizom, vhod $10
-Dombaj, novyj god. Na vseh sklonah - 60 chelovek i 2m snega; putevka (1mest
nomer + zhratva) 2500 - 10 000rub/(sutki*rylo) ($5 to $20); 1 pod'em na kresle
100rub (20c); banya - 10 000rub/2 chas  ($20).
-Iz-za "svobody vyezda" zastrevali dazhe sovdiplomaty, s zelenymi passportami.
Nekotoryh iz nih ssazhivali s poezda, iduschego na Helsinki, pryamo na granice.
V 1 den tolpa ot'ezzhayuschih v Sheremet'evo zastavila aeroportovskogo OVIRovca
prostavlyat vsem vyezdnye vizy pryamo v aeroportu, pod ugrozoj linchevaniya.
Vyezdnaya viza stoit teper $200 (letom bylo $20), berut prymo v MIDe. 
Edinstvennoe realnoe izmenennie - OVIR teper rassmatrivaet prosheniya o vyezde
(na vremya) bez priglasheniya iz-za bugra. Rossijskie vlasti obraschalis k
burzhuaznym konsulstvam v CCCP davat kak mozhno menshe v'ezdnyh viz v ih
strany.


-- 
Vlad Soukhanovsky                            ,-_|\  A MARVELOUS LAND OF
phvas@marlin.jcu.edu.au                     /     \  KOALAS, KANGAROOS,
                                            \_,-._/   WOMBATS, EUCHIDNAS
                                                 v     and PLATYPUSES.  
Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet
From: jkeller@afit.af.mil (John G Keller)
Subject: Sensor Fusion
Keywords: Speaker identification, face recognition, fusion
Organization: Air Force Institute of Technology
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 23:54:42 GMT
From: pv02@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (PETER VOROBIEFF)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet
Subject: Re: Crime and punishment/CH(G)...
Date: 25 Jan 93 14:29:31 GMT
Organization: Lehigh University

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. When in Moscow "metro", one 
>should be always prepared to confront a pack of leather-clad fellows requesting 

Gee, that might have been me and my friend Kolya! $@)

>a smoke. The colloquy is customarily terse and compendious - "A pizdyulei?".
>No answer to this rhetorical question is expected, and if one is not brisk

The correct answer is "Spasibo, sam mogu podelitsya." Be calm and polite,
and all will be OK with Moscow gangsmen (save Azerbaijanis on opium).
Wouldn't give the same advice about those drug-intoxicated homicidal
morons here in the US.

>America beyond inner cities is not even worth talking about. My own
>experience is that in countryside Russia after 5pm it's an arduous task
>to find a sober male who is older than 14. Juxtapose it and any American 
>suburb. In fact, if one excludes inner city ghettos from the statistics, 
>the American crime situation appears quite decent.

I must agree that the excess number of drunks is the endemic feature of
Russian rural landscape. But there is theft and other crimes even in
smaller towns. The day before yesterday, a friend of mine failed to find
her boots, credit card, phone card and some $30 cash having returned from 
the swimming-pool.

-- 
---
Thus spake Kalmoth the Dreaded, Bane of the Forests of Gnoy.
Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet
From: davidson@ccrs.emr.ca (David Davidson)
Subject: It may just mean the end of the world...
Organization: Canada Centre for Remote Sensing, Ottawa
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 03:24:34 GMT

The publication the "Readers Digest" is a hugely popular right-wing rag in
North America. It has a huge circulation and can probably be found in the
bathroom of every North American over 60. Now this is a fitting place for
it, as the quality of its journalism qualifies its use as toilet-paper.

When I visit my parents, and having a dump, I take this opportunity to look
in the RD for a regular feature. Guaranteed there will always be one horror
story saying how we should fear the red vodka slugging hoard who will come
flowing over the polar cap if we cut back one penny on defence spending.

Well, I could not believe what I saw. An article by Jeanne Kirkpatrick on
why there should be a Marshal Plan for Russia. This has to be one of the 
most significant political shifts in history.
J.K. is a far right, gun loving fascist. She was a driving force for
Republican policy in Central America. She in no uncertain terms wanted to 
kill every Sandinista and peasant who wanted land reform in Central America.
She made Hitler look like a leftie. So, she wrote nice things about Boris Y.
and advocates the giving of massive amounts of aid to Russia. 

I read it twise to make sure that it was not some kind of joke. And then I 
checked to make sure it was infact the RD I was reading. According to the
bible, at the end of the world, the lion will lie down with the lamb.
Well, either I am hallucinating, or there is no point in paying any of my
bills this month.

What is the world comming to when you cant trust a Republican to want to kill
a socialist. Next thing you know they'll start talking about feeding the poor.
This must all be some commie brain-washing plot that began when they introduced
floride in our drinking water. Cunning devils aren't they. (heavy sarcasm)


David

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From: pv02@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (PETER VOROBIEFF)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet
Subject: Re: Crime and punishment/CH(G)...
Date: 23 Jan 93 01:13:52 GMT
Organization: Lehigh University

In article <C18s85.Cs1@news.cso.uiuc.edu>, didinsky@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (didinsky garry) writes:
>At this late hour there is only question that still prevents me from going to
>sleep: "What is the crime situation in old Russia?"  There is a lot of talk
>lately about high crime rates in the US of A.  Does anyone know how dangerous
>it is to live in Russia today?  I hear stories about people having to arm
>themselves to walk in the evenings (these ones were from Novosibirsk). What is `the risk of being assulted in big/small/medium cities?
>
>Can anyone express personal impressions/comparisons of individual safety in 
>Russia and US?
>

Well...

My experience is not _very_ recent: last time I've been in Russia in autumn.
The crime rate was steadily growing, and many people bought various 
self-defense mumbo-jumbo, especially car owners. However, I didn't feel any
necessity to buy a gun or something, continuing to rely on my fists and my 
dagger, as in the good ol' Eighties.

The most fast growing crime was theft. In particular, theft of food and cattle,
poaching and other illegal ways of obtaining something edible. Among crimes 
directly connected with violence robbery had the fastest rate of increase. 
Rape rate had a tendency to decrease, despite the media tendency to overload 
the newspaper pages and TV programs with grisly sexual maniacs stories. 

And I can bet that there is no place half as scary even in the most dreaded
prison camp zone cities of Siberia (e.g. Boguchansk) as Williamsburg in NYC.

-- 
---
Thus spake Kalmoth the Dreaded, Bane of the Forests of Gnoy.
Organization: The American University - University Computing Center
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 17:06:28 EST
From: <OMARS@auvm.american.edu>
Newsgroups: soc.culture.afghanistan
Subject: The Battle for Kabul Intensifies


This just in from combined dispatches, Jan. 25, 1993;


    Kabul Radio reports that fierce fighting took place in the South and
    Southeastern fringes of the city, and at times inside the city limit
    itself, on Monday, following the advance of Gulbudin Hekmatyar's Hezb-i
    Islami forces. The report admitted that the rebel forces' brief entrance
    into the capital resulted in heavy casualties and serious damage. But
    the forces loyal to the government repulsed the attack after fierce
    confrontations, Kabul Radio said, "the enemy suffered heavy losses."

    This latest wave of fighting comes hours after Saudi and Pakistani leaders
    pleaded with all sides to proclaim a cease-fire and enter peace-talks.
    Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, lending support to Saudi Arabia's
    invitation for negociations on Saturday, said "we share Saudi Arabia's
    pain and anguish over the unfortunate fighting in Afghanistan." The Afghan
    sides have not indicated their willingness to attend the Riyadh talks yet.


Newsgroups: soc.culture.afghanistan
From: OMARS@auvm.american.edu
Newsgroups: soc.culture.afghanistan
Subject: Fighting Rages as Saudis Try Mediation
Date: 25 Jan 93 15:17:40 GMT
Organization: The American University - University Computing Center


Agence France Presse reports from Kabul, Jan. 23, 1993:


   Following a week of intense fighting between warring Afghan factions,
   King Fahd of Saudi Arabia has invited all sides to attend a meeting in
   his kingdom to settle their differences.

   Representatives of the Kabul government and the opposition Hezb-i Islami
   said they have received the invitation but had not responded to the
   offer yet.

   In his invitation, the king said " I give you a sincere invitation to
   Saudi Arabia to meet and discuss your views and differences." In another
   section of the message he said "Afghan brothers who, only yesterday, were
   fighting in one trench, have begun to fight each other in order to seize
   power, motivated by worldly gains."

   Meanwhile, Gulbudin Hekmatyar's forces claim to have made important gains
   following a major offensive by government troops last week to dislodge
   them from the South of Kabul. The government offensive was in response to
   several days of rocket attacks on the city from Hekmatyar's positions.
   A spokesperson for the Hezb-i Islami said the former royal palace at
   Chehlsotoon and the Kabul Military Academy have fallen into their hands.
   He also said the group had captured 300 fighters of Shora-e Nezar, a force
   under the direct command of Defense Minister Ahmad Shah Massoud.

   According to eyewitnesses, boths sides have been using heavy armement,
   including helicopters, tanks and artillery, inflicting heavy casualties
   on all sides. The civilian toll is said to be high.

   Kabul's electricity has also been cut. The Hezb-i Islami accuses another
   group, the National islamic Front, of disconnecting the power from the
   Soroobi station.
Organization: Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
Date: Thursday, 21 Jan 1993 23:59:10 PST
From: Walid Majid <WALID@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU>
Newsgroups: soc.culture.afghanistan
Subject: Re: Afghan News <-- Gulbudin's version
 <1993Jan22.041520.19431@wam.umd.edu>

In article <1993Jan22.041520.19431@wam.umd.edu>, endevour@wam.umd.edu (Afghan)
says:
>
>
>We have to show them ( unlike our intellectuals who could not resist
>the pay offs ) that we belong to one party and that is Afghanistan,
>and every member of this party, this nation, stands united with each
>other. Ok, ok I know it is impossible but it just feels good saying
>it.
>

i am just curious;  who are these so called "intellectuals".  Do they
have a commone cause, e.g. are they ex-commies, chicken hawkes, suppor-
ters of the former king, who?  they have obviously done something that
has bothered you a great deal.  let me know, i am just curious.

we have here in the bay area a few people who do nothing but write
articles in afghan magazines (one is khorasan, the other one is i think
aieena) that are full of, what i think, garbage.  they have no other
occupation except to pick on things, and on people, and use the cover
of islam against one group and then the next day the cover of tadjiki or
pashtooni against another group, just to make a point.

if you call these people intellectuals, then you are being very kind
to them.  i call them total morons.  they have no principals what so
ever.

let me tell you a story about one of them.  a few years ago when i moved
here i saw these afghan magazines and got a subscription to one of
them (khorasan).  i thought this is good way to learn about the situation
back home, as well as learn more about our history, culture and yes even
practice my dari and pashtoo (the attempt to practice the latter was
futile, since this is an almost exclusively dari magazine, but that's
okay - language is just a means of communication) .  now i started
going through some of these articles, and i must say after going through
a few issues i got sick of it.  i am sure there are many good articles
there, but i guess i happend to get the issues during an intellectual
drought season.  there is this one fellow, which issues after issues
seemed to write about the stories he had heard from a minister who is
now conveniently dead, about the president who also happens to be absent.
i thought this was totally ridiculous.  at the time when the commies
were killing our best, this jerk keeps saying all sort of god knows
what kind of fiction about people he obviously had personal animosities
against.  anyway he was not alone.  another person used to alway
whine about how the tadjiks and the uzbeks were not given high posts
in the past, forgetting to mention the slight fact that not too many
pashtoons were given high posts either.  he obviously was one of those
who wanted to break our nation into little parts so that he can one
get a piece of one the little sections.  i call people like these
traitors of the worst kind, just like taraki, amin, babrak, and najib.

all i can say is that the almighty show these people the light.

ba ehteram,

walid
Newsgroups: soc.culture.afghanistan
From: bhmughal@athena.mit.edu (Bilal H Mughal)
Subject: Re: Afghanistan is becoming a satallite state
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 03:41:52 GMT

In article <1993Jan21.152808.9279@wam.umd.edu>, endevour@next05epsl.wam.umd.edu (Afghan) writes:
|> 
|> Pakistan have conveniently divided Afghanistan between Pashtoons
|> and non-Pashtoons, between Shia and Sunni.
|> 
[...]
|> 
|> Pakistan succeed in what the entire red army could not achieve. They have
|> successfully divided us into Pashtoons, Tajiks, Hazara, Sunni, Shia, 
|> Gulbudini, Jamiati etc etc. If we are with Gulbudin we turn our face 
|> and bury our heads in the sand and say hey the rockets in Kabul came from 
|> no where. If we are Wahdati we say the Afghan women who are frequently  
|> raped by their members and Glemjam militia are having some kind of  
|> delusion. If we are Jamiati we say that Rabani is indeed the President  
|> while we very well know that he fixed the whole thing up. 
|> 
[...]
|> 
|> What a victory for Paksitan. The same Afghanistan who was determined to 
|> claime its lost territory in Pashtoonistan and Baluchistan is now at the
|> mercy of Pakistani Generals for its own existance. 
[...]

I'd like to see you expand on this thread.  Exactly what territory did
Afghanistan lose in "Pashtoonistan" and Baluchistan?  When did this happen?  On
what basis does Afghanistan claim these areas?

The last question is partly rhetorical.  I presume that Afghanistan claimed these
areas largely on the basis of ethnicity in that Baluchis and Pathans are major
groups in Afghanistan as well as Pakistan.  If that is indeed the case, why not
healthy chunks of Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Kyrgystan and Iranian
Baluchistan as well?  I am ruling out rationales from the pre-British,
pre-nation-state times, for example, the unification of these areas under the
Mughals, etc.

But more importantly, with all this nostalgic yearning for
more glorious days, can you fully justify, to yourself, that all your
heartrending polemics are motivated by the humanitarian disaster in Afghanistan
and not, atleast partly, by a desire to see Afghanistan again as a regional power
throwing its weight around?  In this context, I'd like to hear your opinion of
Zahir Shah, the monarchy in general, and the days when Kabul, in concert with
New Delhi, dreamed about carving up Pakistan along the Indus river.

Without further speculation,
regards,
Bilal
Newsgroups: soc.culture.afghanistan
Subject: Afghan News
From: yea027@marshall.wvnet.edu
Date: 21 Jan 93 19:02:56 -0500
Organization: Marshall University

AFGHANISTAN
About 30 rockets were fired at Kabul airport on January 17 as two
Ariana planes, Afghanistan's civilian airline, were about to take off.
None of the planes was damaged and they managed to take-off safely
for Peshawar, Pakistan.
Rockets were also fired at the presidential palace in the heart of
Kabul.
On January 19, a number of other rockets were fired at the city
in which three people were reported killed.
A government spokesman said that it was now involved in an operation
to clear out all militias from the city so that they would not
be able to fire at the city.
The defence ministry accused forces loyal to Gulbuddin Hikmatyar of
firing the rockets. It was not immediately clear whether Hikmatyar's
forces had been responsible. The Uzbek militia led by general Abdul
Rashid Dostam is also not very happy with the regime. He has
demanded recognition for his northern council and more seats in the
government.
Dostam has been trying to get some international respectability too.
In October he made a quick visit to Pakistan. After that, he went on
a visit to Saudi Arabia and is reported to have been met by
Turki al-Faisal, the Saudi intelligence chief. Dostam said that he also
performed Umra during his visit, something he no doubt needed to do
after killing so many innocent Muslims both before Najib's overthrow
and after his departure from the scene last April.
The Saudis have been playing a dirty role in Afghanistan; their welcome
of Dostam is part of the Saudis' shady role in trying to sabotage the
establishment of an Islamic government in Afghanistan.
 
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Newsgroups: soc.culture.afghanistan
From: lhermi@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Lotfi Hermi)
Subject: Re: Afghan News <-- Gulbudin's version
Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 17:24:22 GMT

Aside from slandering and without going too much into the details - for I hate
reading long message.  Bradaram H. Abid, can you draw for us from your angle
the perspective of a future of afghanistan.  Please indicate whether such a
view is your own or that such and such thesis is supported by Afghans.

Here is a helping kit.
(1) Social structure of Afghanistan,
Elements of this structure, premisses (things taken for granted in the society)
prospect of change of such a structure, past and future trends. The question of
afghan identity vs islamic allegiance and how much these and other elements 
interact.

(2) Major parties, organizations that shape the social and power structure of 
afghan society.

(3) Personalities that shape the afghan political scene.

Rabbani, Gulbadin, Sayyaf, Pir Gailani, etc.   give a brief profile of each
personality and how much support they have in the Afghan population or
-dissatisfaction-   can expand here but short porfiles are easy to follow up.

(4) Major hurdles and future challenges that face afghan society and how to 
tackle such a structure.  An insite into the envisoned society and the ways to
bring about such an organization.

These are just a few elements to start a constructive debate without the usual 
rethorics we are accustomed to from all sides.   I know they are so afghans out
there that can give us some insite into these issues.

Lotfi
Newsgroups: soc.culture.afghanistan
From: defee@cs.tut.fi (Irek Defee)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.afghanistan,soc.culture.african,soc.culture.african.american,soc.culture.arabic,soc.culture.asean,soc.culture.asian.american,soc.culture.australia,soc.culture.bangladesh,soc.culture.bosna-herzgvna,soc.culture.british,soc.culture.brazil,soc.culture.bulgaria
Subject: Study Digital Signal Processing
Date: 28 Jan 1993 06:40:29 GMT
Organization: Tampere University of Technology
Distribution: world
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Summary: International University Program
Keywords: study, digital signal processing, Europe

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