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Rancher wishes Americans could help
I am a rancher in Oklahoma, USA. I thought that I should say how much I enjoy your paper and wished there was some way we could help the "real Russian people" and not put money into the pockets of the politicians and mafia.
We have too much food. Hogs, wheat, and corn are the lowest I can remember and farmers are going broke here.
In any case, I think the American people are concerned about the economic problems your country is going through.
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Story on cold apartments worries sailor
This is a frightening story indeed ("Angry mob: 'Give our children heat," Nov. 30). Sad that so many fundamentally decent people must suffer, for whatever reason. I visited Vladivostok this summer past, as a crew member of the Canadian Frigate HMCS VANCOUVER. For the most part we were well-treated and the crew made many friends. For many, it was a first glimpse of a country shrouded in mystery.
From other sources on the Internet, it looks like Russia is in for a hard winter. You don't have to be a meteorologist to know that Coastal cities usually take the brunt of the assault. I fear for Vladivostok.
I fear most for those I know. I have a friend who lives in Volkhovskaya Street wherever that is; I've never been there). She has a young son, and I am particularly concerned that they not go cold or hungry. I'll help if I can, although there are some restrictions on what can be shipped by mail.
Your efforts to bring the Russian crisis to the rest of the world are appreciated, and may do some good. Hopefully foreign aid will address the problem, and basic necessities will be readily available. Nobody wants to see Russia return to communist rule (at least, nobody in Canada), but democracy obviously could stand improvement.
Mark Chapman Exxon man: How about some Sakhalin photos?
I am an employee of Exxon in Houston who has traveled several times to Sakhalin over the past few years. I enjoy reading your website to keep up to date with news specifically on Sakhalin Island. Would you consider putting some photos of Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk occasionally to remind those of us not on the island what the climate is like throughout the year? I have never been there in the winter and would like to see how the residents cope with the snowfall that I have heard can be significant.
Scott Dodge Nice paper. But spell it 'PetropawlOwsk Kamchatskij'
Greetings. Congratulations on the excellent layout and superb, clear English. Your characters (handz) for China and Russia are also correct. The articles give the flavor (I shall use American spelling) of the area.
I am contemplating coming over for a while to work in one of the hospitals and lend a hand writing some articles; without pay, of course. I speak Russian, my Mandarin (putong hwa) used to be better years ago.
When I was studying mathematics some years ago at Cal in Berkeley, I was reading the doklady "AN USSR" and "Uspiehy matematiceskih nauk" in the original, but the transliteration employed in translations an inverted circumflex. Also the Cyrillic G (gamma) was a G, and the Cyrillic X was an H, as in Habarovsk; otherwise, when written Kh, people have a tendency to pronounce it as K. I think that the readers would be interested to know that Vladi Vostok means the Ruler of the East and that Primorye means the Land by the Sea. Harasho!
If I am not mistaken, Vladivostok is also the home port of the Pacific Fleet, i.e. the Tiho-okeanskij Flot.
I came across your excellent publication searching for the Web site of the English Sun newspaper. They are gunning for Oskar Lafontaine, the German Finance Minister, and on the front page today, they had his picture and a caption in German: "Is this the most dangerous man in Europe?" However, sloppy as they are, they made some spelling and grammatical errors, so it flew back in their faces, insofar as anybody in England noticed. But when I came across your paper I postponed my search and started reading yours.
The list of sponsors could have been in toto transferred from Palo Alto (Silicon Valley) California where I lived for many years. All in all, a super effort. Not as a criticism, but rather as a question for reporter Anatoly Medetsky, should it not be PetropawlOwsk Kamchatskij or PetropavlOvsk, rather than PetropavlAvsk?
Permit me a brief autobiographical sketch. I am a Scotsman, lived in Canada and California before moving to Holland. As a young man I lived in many countries and learnt practically every European language. As a child I read a book about the Russian Far East, in particular about Sahalin (Karafuto) which then was divided and the Ainu whom the Japanese are discriminating against. Some years ago a young person from Southern Sahalin (yuznij Sahalin) won the world mathematics Olympics.
With best regards, paka!
Alexander Robinson. EDITOR'S NOTE: The Vladivostok News follows accepted generally spellings of names and places, and uses the Moscow Times newspaper style guide on transliteration. Reporter Anatoly Medetsky spelled the town Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, correct usage for our style.
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