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Oh, thanks, you are always full of all the interesting information... It is difficult to imagine you could not know something... Yep, I always forget it looks foolish... Yes, I've seen part of "The First Circle" and liked it very much. Too bad I've lost some of it - I've programmed my...

Yes, you are right, as always... Erm, erm, erm... But have I mentioned to you that I was going to my dentist? My jaw feels queer since...

Yes, we surely did. Wow, I see. I remember that guy from Top Gear mentioning some of the islands... It seems one of his cars had Man's plate... Yep. But only we succeeded at producing so much of such interesting personalities throughout centuries... Our dacha record this winter is -40C...

Wow... I would have liked to say something... But just cannot get my jaw operating properly...

Yep, it is a good book. BTW, have you heard that the author came through the Cancer Ward himself?

Oh, if I decided to mention all the important people that have spoken Russian - I would have still been at it until now, I think. Not many of them got popular in the West - but it is not because they were not as good as Dostoevsky, Nabokov or Soljhenitsyn. People are interested in things that...

Get real, people. There WERE already tonnels across the Mexican-USA border, and as to victims among American border guards - I think that most of these were shown in the Guys in Black - remember that incident on the border? OK, maybe 100 years before that was different, but I do not imagine it...

Ahhh... BTW, my own daughter turns 15 next week. I decided to give her a new PC as a birthday present. How do you think - is it OK for a young lady of 15? Oh, it seems you like cats? What's his name? It's "he", yes?

Russian is a cool language. Pushkin, Tolstoy, Lermontov, Nekrasov... Lenin, Stalin, Brejnev... myself... All these people, and many-many others used Russian to express themselves. But... What would I have done about my life if I hadn't have learned small bit of English that I know...

Oh, thanks, though I am not nearly that good to know all the military history... Yep. I remember the Baltic States too - we should have discussed that already... :) I do not like them at all. I think those rates apply to people with really huge incomes, though. No wonder the rich always...

Oh, T-72 came slightly later: the operation was meant to topple Hafizulla Amin, and to install Babrak Karmal, who had to invite the Russian army to enter Afganistan on the far wider scale. Too bad that is in the past now... Eh, Finland... The manager we work with regularly says how much...

I think it has been meant as subtle (not as subtle as eliminating somebody with an umbrella or a ball pen, of course) as an assault by a small group of Spetcnaz could be. It went slightly wrong and got louder than it had been meant, but Spetcnaz guys were really cool - so the result has been...

Of course I am not aware of the politics behind it, but as far as I understand Mr. Luzhkov - he has in him more of a wise man, than of a really good one. So he needs his power and all the money he can lay his hands on, but he understands that to have that the people must like him. So he does...

Wow... How very unusual and interesting... Maybe I should check those around me for long teeth and red eyes, as if there are you and your friends - there surely must be others... BTW, have you difficulty cleaning your teeth already? I have always wondered how the vampires do that...

Sure. But the latest announcements of Mrs. Rice (sp?) shows that USA should be quite high on that list. Of course that is not coincidence. I've already mentioned that the blow was made when it would surely be felt by all the interested parties. Without that nobody would have cared about...

I think Russia used covert operations too. But they went wrong too often, and the people who done them went public soon: I would like to mention Afganistan again, when Amin residence was stormed. Everybody knows all the details now. (Though even then all the thing looked so obvious, that even...

Oh. One would think that when sex gets unpopular, it would be quite soon after that that nobody will buy anything. So far it doesn't seem to be our immediate concern.

I think your understanding is right, speaking of Russian leaders, but the same is right to some extent in respect to any other country: each one tends to have as many friendly or dependent territories between them and potentially dangerous countries. It's a geopolitics again, but those political...

Oh, Kenny, I like this discussion very much, so please do not think I am angry or something. I will try to return tomorrow evening - we are going to Moscow tomorrow morning, my wife is offered a new contract and she will meet her colleagues tomorrow, and I will try to understand what's wrong...