This & That, Ceci et Cela

Letter to Moscow Times regarding cyrillic alphabet without transliteration.

Apr 22nd, 2005 2:00am
In case any of their staff/even the writer stumble across this site, seeing as I have still not received a reply! The Moscow Times online newsletter is read by non-Russian residents/citizens like me who don't speak the language at all but are interested in global news and current affairs. So article like "Damsels in Linguistic Distress" and "Cold Cuts and Hot Beats" become a complete waste to a significant portion ...

UN oil-for-food scandal; who really dunnit?

1:00am
Interesting commentary on the real facilitators of the UN oil-for-food scandal. Chris Floyd declares in "Global Eye Gut Check": "All the guff about law, democracy and morality is just cornball for the yokels back home and for the cannon fodder sent off to die in the elite's commercial and dynastic wars". Interesting to learn that although Texas oil baron David Chalmers of Bayoil and his partners were charged ...

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