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From: Anneliese Kropf <akropf@mariner.amc.ed.au>
Subject: Ilyushin Help Needed
Organization: Australian Maritime College
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Date: Mon, 14 Sep 92 05:04:17 GMT

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> Subject: Ilyushin Help Needed.
> 
> 
> Hello,
> 	I am an Australian seeking information about the Ilyushin Aircraft
> Design Bureau, in particular about the IL-96-300
> 	and the Tupolev Aircraft Design Bureau, in particular about the
> 	TU 204
> 
> 	I need fax numbers or E-mail numbers.
> 
> 	Any help greatly appreciated.
> 
> 
> 
	Please direct all answers to the address below (Do not reply directly
to this posting).

		hoconnel@adelphi.physics.adelaide.edu.au
From: muh@physics.Berkeley.EDU (Yury M. Mukharsky)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet
Subject: Re: The least nationalistic nation
Date: 10 Sep 1992 04:19:46 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
NNTP-Posting-Host: physics.berkeley.edu

No matter who writes:
>
>That's exactly the illustration of point in question. Of course, he is great
>writer _not_ because he captures the feelings of drunkard completely, but
>that is just exactly what escaped you, sorry, because you are not an insider.

Ja emu govoril, ne meshai vodku s portvewinom, a on "koktail, koktail.."

Yury

Highbrows may disagree, if they want.
From: dleschin@FEDS66.PRIME.COM (Dmitri Leschiner)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet
Subject: Re: The least nationalistic nation
Date: 9 Sep 92 21:53:46 GMT
Reply-To: "soc.culture.soviet via ListServ" <SCS-L@indycms.iupui.edu>

>Date:         Wed, 9 Sep 1992 17:00:38 EST
>From: "Linda H. Scatton" <SCATTONL%SNYCENVM.BITNET@pucc.Princeton.EDU>

>  So, with respect to your example, I myself can't identify with Venichka be-
>cause I've never been drunk, not to mention desperate to get booze before the
>stores open, but there are many people out there who *can identify*, and they
>are not all in the xSU!  For me, personally, therefore, Erofeev is not a favo-
>rite, but I'm willing to agree with those who think he's a great writer because
>he captures this feeling so completely.
>  It's insulting and narrow-minded to claim that only insiders can take part in
>the riches which world cultures offer us.

That's exactly the illustration of point in question. Of course, he is great
writer _not_ because he captures the feelings of drunkard completely, but
that is just exactly what escaped you, sorry, because you are not an insider.
Not that being an insider provides you with perception disability insurance,
though.

Dmitry
From: novost@halcyon.com (mashina)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet
Subject: help with translation
Date: 12 Sep 92 16:49:38 GMT
Reply-To: novost@halcyon.com
Organization: The 23:00 News and Mail Service
Originator: novost@halcyon.com

I only have 2 small Russian-English dictionaries and they are
not much help when it comes to technicasubjects.  Can anyone
help me out with the following words?
razrabotka nedr -
chetvertichnyj pereod -
antropogenovyj pereod -
suglinok -
valun -
supes' -
limnoglyatsial'nyj -

Thanks in advance.

               Jeff
From: ivirker@qualcom.qualcomm.com (Igor Virker)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet
Subject: Font Wanted
Date: 14 Sep 92 23:28:58 GMT
Article-I.D.: qualcom.ivirker.716513338
Organization: Qualcomm, Inc., San Diego, CA

Does anybody out there have a Cyrillic Font for Windows 3.1 ?
Please send me.
				Thanks,
				Igor.
Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet
From: patricia@cco.caltech.edu (Patricia M. Schwarz)
Subject: Re: The least nationalistic nation
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 18:16:43 GMT


>You make me laugh! If you think that there is racism against Russians in
>"Red Heat" it means that you have no idea of what humour is.

To find a racist stereotype humorous is part of the self-hatred that
comes along with being a victim of this stereotype.

I know a lot of Jews who laugh at antisemitic jokes. I couldn't
understand that, but some of my Jewish friends said that this was part
of Jewish self-hatred. 

People used to laugh at "Amos and Andy" in America, even blacks liked it,
but the next generation of children grew up and didn't think it was so
funny. They thought more highly of themselves and could see that this
program made blacks out to be uniformly lazy and irresponsible idiots.

I think that "Red Heat" makes an awful stereotype of the Soviet man
as an insensitive, brutal savage who can only be ruled by a totalitarian
system. All the Russian men I know, even the few here who attack me,
are exactly the opposite of this. I'm sure there are such Russian men as
the one Schwarzeneggar portrayed, but I haven't met any and I hate the
idea of Americans thinking this character is typical.

I can't think of an American film showing the type of Russian man that
I have come to know.

-patricia
From: mmarkish@FEDS46.PRIME.COM (Mark Markish x2799)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet
Subject: et tu, Pushkin
Date: 9 Sep 92 06:38:51 GMT
Reply-To: "soc.culture.soviet via ListServ" <SCS-L@indycms.iupui.edu>

Big, big news. It was not only Gogol, who was a pervert, but also Pushkin,
as Helen Iswolsky clearly attests to in her _Soul_of_Russia_, p.72:

" Pushkin was gay, lighthearted, and dissipated, but his destiny, the
" story of his life and death, is marked with a mysterious beauty and
" sadness."
Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet
From: muh@physics1 (Yury M. Mukharsky)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet
Subject: Re: Koenigsberg/Kaliningrad
Date: 8 Sep 1992 05:32:41 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: physics1.berkeley.edu

In article <1992Sep7.172836.22157@cs.tu-berlin.de> wolfi@opal.cs.tu-berlin.de (Wolfgang Schwanke) writes:

>>is fascist, I just saying that free election does not imply
>>anything.
>
>It doesn't make a wonderful world, but it makes sure you can get rid of that
>government.

Yes, if they will have the one more opportunity. But Russians who participated
in free election of Supreme Soviet now have not right to vote. 

Yury
From: AUSBROOK@iubacs.bitnet (Entropy Warrior)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet
Subject: Dear Igor,
Date: 12 Sep 92 00:45:00 GMT
Reply-To: "soc.culture.soviet via ListServ" <SCS-L@indycms.iupui.edu>

>Somali or Haitian refugee without English are part of American culture,
>and speak in prose but don't know that?
>What do you mean by "culture". Or better look in decent dictionary.

You look in a decent dictionary.  To make my point--and I
am not flaming about your English--but it is appalling.  You are,
like it or not, for better or worse, here *and* part of American
culture.  Your lack of knowledge of English does not exclude you
from the culture--though it ought to make you think twice before
criticizing the inadequacy of English translations.  If your
position that others can never understand Russian culture--or any
"alien" culture is true, you have no legitimate ground from which
to launch an attack on translations into languages "belonging" to
cultures not your own.  I happen to think your criticisms of
translations are fine--at least as a starting point.  But I don't
believe in the infallibility of the Pope or of Russians about
Russian culture.

As for the Somali and Hatian refugees--they're here, as are you.
Welcome to American culture.  If you have a problem with what
something "means" to other folks who have been here longer, I'll
be happy to give you my single view of the possibilities.  But
your own possibilities are not wrong--they may only be more or
less widely shared.

Culture--it's probably something so big and so inclusive that
presence "in" it is probably enough.

Now back to my dinner.

Be well,
-Mka
From: krainev@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu
Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet
Subject: R E L A X,  P L E A S E....
Date: 5 Sep 92 15:54:29 CDT
Organization: University of Kansas Academic Computing Services


        SHASHKI NAGOLO !

    (Khodil po Uralu Chapaev-geroi)

  Pomimo bessmertnikh obrazov poruchika Rzhevskogo i CHUKCHI,
 v Russkoi literature suschestvuyut obrazy Chapaya i Pet'ki. 
 V oznamenovanie nachala novogo uchebnogo goda, a takzhe dlya
 vseobschego udovol'stviya pochtennoi publike predlagayutsya


  S uvazheniem,                    Arkadi Krainev,

                               lyubitel' Russkogo slova,
                               svezhij poselenez shtata Kanzas.

           * * * * * * * * * * * *

 Vasilij Ivanovich i Pet'ka mechtayut o svetlom buduschem.
 
 P.: A po levomu beregu reki mi postroim konservatoriyu, a
     po pravomu beregu - esche odnu konservatoriyu...

 V.I.: Net, Pet'ka, ti ne prav, pri kazhdoj KONSERVAtorii
       dolzhna bit pristroena OBSERvatoriya...

           * * * * * * * * * * * *     
 
 Vasilij Ivanovich est kartoshku. Vbegaet Pet'ka:
 - Furmanov priekhal!

 V.I.: Idi, Pet'ka, pozovi ego est' kartoshku.
 P.(vozvraschaetsya): On ne khochet, on sit.
 V.I.: Vot pust' POSSIT, i prikhodit...

          * * * * * * * * * * * * *

 V shtab vkhodit Chapaev:
 - Gde Pet'ka?

 - On na krishe, antennu natyagivaet.
 V.I.(mechtatel'no): Krasivoe imya - Antenna...

           * * * * * * * * * * * * *
From: avg@rodan.UU.NET (Vadim Antonov)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet
Subject: Re: Philip Morris
Date: 14 Sep 1992 15:36:41 -0400
Organization: Berkeley Software Design
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: rodan.uu.net

In article <190os0INNuv@agate.berkeley.edu> muh@physics.Berkeley.EDU (Yury M. Mukharsky) writes:
>"Esli vy ne zhivete to vam i ne umirat'".

A line from VV's song if i recall correctly.

--vadim
Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet
From: ryyti@jyu.fi (Jarmo Ryyti)
Subject: Re: Koenigsberg/Kaliningrad
Organization: University of Jyvaskyla, Finland
Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1992 07:56:13 GMT

In article <188uf1INNa3g@agate.berkeley.edu> muh@physics.Berkeley.EDU (Yury M. Mukharsky) writes:
>In article <1992Sep4.072539.3173@jyu.fi> ryyti@jyu.fi (Jarmo Ryyti) writes:
>>>
>>
>>1809 Finland fell under a Russian administration after a
>
>Are you sure you have not missed 100 years. Knowing the way people
>they are teach in Finnish schools, you know :). Seriously am I wrong
>that Finland was taken from Sweden by Russia at the 1700's?
>
>>
There was a war called War of Finland 1807-09 when Sweden "lost"
Finland for Russia. From Swedish point of view the war was a disaster.
Most of the battlefields were on the Finnish soil and around the
area where I live is quite many memory-stones of those battles.
Yes it was really 1809. Since that Sweden has not had, I think any
more wars and former quite a large Swedish "Empire" become to its
size where it is now. Sweden had before 1907-09 war lots of wars
with Russian wre the borders were changing constantly but the whole Finland
fell under Russian adminstration 1809.

Of the rest we have different views. I don't consider Estonian
adminstration especially bad or the situation of russians so bad as you
in Estonia.
Jarmo
>
>Yury
From: muh@physics.Berkeley.EDU (Yury M. Mukharsky)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet
Subject: Re: "democratic" Estonia
Date: 10 Sep 1992 17:13:41 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
NNTP-Posting-Host: physics.berkeley.edu

In article <1992Sep10.052858.14427@jyu.fi> ryyti@jyu.fi (Jarmo Ryyti) writes:
>: 
>test and it is very difficult. In Finland you have to pass a language
>test in a spoken Finnish, the certificate can be obtained from the legalized
>Finnish

Listen Jarmo. When Finland became independend, what did you do with your
Swedes? Did you ask those long-time occupants of your land to learn Finnish,
before they can become citizens. No, they became citizens automatically.
( you even where not satisfied with amount you have and got a hefty 
extra at Allans :) ). Their language became second official language.
And there are much less Swedes in Finland (at least now) than Russians
in Estonia.

Also this repeating of "Ah occupants, ah occupants" does not make any sense
Who are not. Finns? Look thousand something years ago. Americans? Germans?
We all are occupants living on occupied territories.

My point is that occupation was more or less forgotten in USSR. How many Estonians live
out of Estonia, in other x-USSR republics? I do not know the answer, but
I will allow myself to guess that ratio of Estonians_living_in_Russia/Total_Estonians 
is bigger then Russians_living_in_Estonia/total_Russians. I have no numbers
so correct me if I'm wrong.

I think that for people abroad ocuupation
of Estonia was much more important than for Estonians themselfs. It is
very uncomfortable to live with the idea that you are occupied or occupiing.
People tend to forget, cast away this thought. After you are independend,
of course, it is time to remeber, that you were brave and overcame occupation.

The point is not that those Russians should be easier accepted as citizens,
the point is that it's should be automatical. They are there to stay.
Only very stupid peoples starts new life with there roommates from quarrel,
who is the boss. Fortunately not all Estonians are like that. The leader
of National Front party seems to be decent guy.

As for information, Jarmo, you should learn Russian saying: "Zapretnyj
plod sladok". I would guess that average educated Russian have more information
than average educated Finn. At least judging by some representatives :).

Yury
From: mmarkish@FEDS46.PRIME.COM (Mark Markish x2799)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet
Subject: Russophobia - etymology and semantics
Date: 10 Sep 92 14:40:16 GMT
Reply-To: "soc.culture.soviet via ListServ" <SCS-L@indycms.iupui.edu>

> From: Leonid Andreev
>
> I really hate this stupid term "russophobia",...
> By it's literary meaning, `russophob' should be a person who
> IS AFRAID of russians!

This is a justified concern, even though there is a confusion:

by its _literal_ meanintg (etymologically) the word is 'fear of Russia';
by its _literary_ meanintg it is 'hatred of Russia', or the Russians,
and sometimes even of the word itself.

Let us note that in the Russian language the word 'Judophobia' (pronounced
with "y") anteceded 'anti-Semitism' by decades, if not more. And those who
called themselves (or were coined by others) Judophobs, sure enough,
insisted that they were not afraid of Jews, but simply hated them.

In certain instances, however, fear and hate go hand in hand.
From: pv02@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (PETER VOROBIEFF)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet
Subject: Hands off Shafarevich!
Date: 6 Sep 92 17:06:31 GMT
Organization: Lehigh University

Hi everybody!

I've decided to join the discussion concerning Shafarevich because
it is of personal importance to me. I have been introduced to 
Igor Rostislavovich (though, most probably, he does not
remember me), I have read his book and I know a few things about
his life. Of course, I do not force anybody to share my opinion, 
but I think that to some people a bit of extra information about
Shafarevich may be of interest.

First, Shafarevich was for years among the most prominent figures 
in the human rights movement in Russia. He was one of the friends
of Sakharov, and on short terms with Solzhenitsyn too. As a dissident
he got a reputation of a man of unbendable will and high moral stature.

Second, the book Russophobia really contains a disputable view on the
Russian history. As it seems to me, it tends to diminish the power 
and importance of the Russian nation. But there is nothing chauvinistic
in it (and no special offence to Jews either).

Third, Shafarevich is a great nice old guy, and when I read NAMES some
people call him, I just want to, hmm, I'll probably omit the next few words.
Please don't call him NAMES - it's rude, it's ugly, it's uncivilised.
Even if you don't share his views and ESPECIALLY when you don't even know
them.

And do remember, that the only EXPELLED member of any academy in the
history was Einstein. And NAZIES expelled him.
-- 
Thus spake Kalmoth the Vile, Slayer of the Seven Pigs of the North.
From: zhelud@drfmc.ceng.cea.fr (Andrei Zheludev)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet
Subject: Re: Russian poetry
Date: 9 Sep 92 14:30:01 GMT
Article-I.D.: husc3.1992Sep9.103002.15490
Distribution: usa
Organization: Conspiracy International
Originator: verbits1@husc9.harvard.edu

In article <1992Sep9.094339.20310@cco.caltech.edu> patricia@cco.caltech.edu (Patricia M. Schwarz) writes:
>>Bravo, Igor!
>
>>Spasi nas Bog ot damochek s diplomami i aspiraciami.
>
>>Alexandre "Sasha Propili Bashli" Kostomaroff
>
>Why do you hate me and want to hurt me?
>
>-patricia






I think I know why he does. Vidish li, dorogaya, est liudi, koto-
rie vsemi kletkami svoey dushi nenavidiat massovikov-
zatinikov i profsojuznih dejateley. Mozhet on odin iz takih liudey.
Ja ne iz takih, no, dorogaya Patricia, ja tebe skazhu, kak sebia
nado vesti chtobi takie liudi na tebia ne napadali:
Ob odnom proshu tebia, drug Arkadiy, ne govori krasivo.
Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet
From: Anneliese Kropf <akropf@mariner.amc.ed.au>
Subject: Ilyushin Help Needed
Organization: Australian Maritime College
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Date: Mon, 14 Sep 92 05:03:21 GMT

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> Subject: Ilyushin Help Needed.
> 
> 
> Hello,
> 	I am an Australian seeking information about the Ilyushin Aircraft
> Design Bureau, in particular about the IL-96-300
> 	and the Tupolev Aircraft Design Bureau, in particular about the
> 	TU 204
> 
> 	I need fax numbers or E-mail numbers.
> 
> 	Any help greatly appreciated.
> 
> 
> 
	Please direct all answers to the address below (Do not reply directly
to this posting).

		hoconnel@adelphi.physics.adelaide.edu.au
From: dleschin@FEDS66.PRIME.COM (Dmitri Leschiner)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet
Subject: Re: Russophob Belov
Date: 13 Sep 92 01:01:58 GMT
Reply-To: "soc.culture.soviet via ListServ" <SCS-L@indycms.iupui.edu>

> Date:         Wed, 9 Sep 1992 20:08:04 GMT
> From: vlad <vlad@ERG.SRI.COM>
>
> WARNING TO IDIOTS: both Ivan's and my postings are supossed to be
> SARCASTIC. Yes, sarcastic. Please do not start flaming us! Please!
>

Didn't even think of it.

>
> > - he didn't fight (even passively) the Communist system.
>
> Look, you miss the six crucial points that all Russian patriots must be
> aware of:
>
> 1) Those damn Jews should be shot for imposing Communism on the poor
> Russians in 1917
>
> 2) Those damn Jews should be shot for destroying Communism, the best system
> for Russians, in 1991.
>
> 3) Those damn Jews should be shot for starting ChK, NKVD, KGB.
>
> 4) The patriots of Pamyat' express their solidarity with the noble
> organization of KGB and will do all in its power to strengthen it.
>
> 5) The Jewish guilt in the Communist crimes is proved beyond doubt by the
> fact that 90% of all Orthodox Christian churches were destroyed by
> Communists
>
> 6) The Communists should be applauded for the fact that 98% of all Jewish
> synagogues were destroyed by Communists
>
> Are so stupid that you don't find these logical? Well, even great
> mathematicians like Pontryagin, Vorobyev and Shafarevich find the above
> logical. So must you.
>

Great! Exactly! You seem to be a really good mathematician, to grasp the very
core of complicated dialectics of our time. Nothing to wonder: reality is so
full of illogical things, just like mathematics itself, only great mathemati-
cians could possibly grasp it.


Dimulya
Sexist abuser
Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet
From: bil@burka..aix.kingston.ibm.com (Igor Belchinskiy)
Subject: Re: Tuk-tuk....
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 92 20:42:16 GMT
Organization: Be. I am.

In article <2521@cronos.metaphor.com> covdy@shemesh.metaphor.com (Ivan Covdy) writes:
>in article <BuC4F2.IqE@news.cso.uiuc.edu>, didinsky@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (didinsky garry) says:
>[...]
>> 
>>     ps.  Reading Ms. Schwart's messages reminded me of a joke:
>> 
>>     Armyanskomu radio pishet storoj Vasilii Ivanovich Zaitsev iz derevni
>>     imeni Dvadtsatogo s'ezda Partii.  On prosit chto byi myi syigrali dlya
>>     nego ego lyubimoe klasicheskoe proizvedenie, pervyi kontsert....(just
>>     think of something very refined).
>> 
>>     Armyanskoe radio otvechaet:  Vas'ka, ne pizdi.
>
>Nichego tak anekdotik!
>
>Dejstvitel'no, trudno poverit', chto mnogie v etoj gruppe tak uzh
>shibko duhovny i s takoj vot bol'ju v serdtse vosprinimajut, kogda
>russkuju kulturu/literaturu marajut "eti chernye amerikanskie baby".

Ivan, ty ne prav! :-)
Seriously too. And better apologize for "etih..."
Networld isn't virtual reality where one can play without responsibility.

>Tak chto, tovarishchi-radejushchije-za-russkuju-literaturu, 
>chitajte otvet Armjanskogo radio!
>
>-- 
>  Ivan Covdy, covdy@shemesh.metaphor.com, METAPHOR Inc.,  CA,  USA
> *** People are looking for a Mind somewhere in the Universe,      ***
> *** because on the Earth they've been finding only the Stupidity. ***

	-igor
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 22:10:36 GMT
	<13658.2aa73a96@ohstpy.mps.ohio-state.edu>

In article <13658.2aa73a96@ohstpy.mps.ohio-state.edu>, vadim@ohstpy.mps.ohio-state.edu writes:
>In article <1992Sep4.053432.24484@zooid.guild.org>, Adam Lawrence Salter <adam@zooid.guild.org> writes:
>> 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
>  Yeah,remember the sweet times when $1=0.57 - 0.62 rub ?


  My memory isn't that good!

                                                             adam
From: adamo@ohstpy.mps.ohio-state.edu
Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet
Subject: Russian Tutor
Date: 15 Sep 92 21:03:45 GMT

Russian Tutor!
Language, Literature, Culture.   All levels.
NATIVE SPEAKER.
M.A. in Russian Language, Literature and Education 
from Leningrad University (Russia).
Wortington area. Call 885-3061 (the best time to call - after 8pm)
Please, don't respond to this account. Thanks.
From: vadim@ohstpy.mps.ohio-state.edu
Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet
Subject: Re: Who Is Afraid Of Patricia Schwarz?
Date: 11 Sep 92 13:42:31 EDT

In article <1992Sep11.134141.28885@gtech.com>, ayr@gtech.com (Aleksey Y. Romanov) writes:
> There is one big SOVOK( and xSOVOK)/american cultural difference: we(SOVOKs and
> xSOVOKs)  are untolerant to the idiotism. I am interesting is it a Russian
> tradition or is it one of the great _zavoevanij of socializm and result of
> building new man ( means _chelovek). I do not think it is our cultural
> advantage. However, it (good or bad) is part of our culture.
> 
> What other cultural differences can you point out ?
> Aleksey Y. Romanov
> 
> DISCLAIMER: The views expressed are entirely my own and do not
> necessary reflect those of my employer or anyone else.
 
   A russian like give advises to others (russian) as though he knows
the life better than others and everybody should do as he thinks.
I do not think it is very good or very bad. Just one of the features.
Sometimes it is useful,sometimes it is annoying.
                                (one of russians
                                 -V. )