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You sank his battleship, too! You bastard! :lol:

You sank my battleship!

Is that just a general observation or do you have a specific beef with Massie?

*sigh* Kalinka, do I have to bring back my siggy with you acknowledging my correctness and greatness? :P So basically, from what I gather, I'm right after all? Referendum: Russians, please tell me...

Ok, so your position would be that calling a female stranger, stewardess, waitress, etc. молодой человек is fine?

Eh. I was always just under the impression that you addressed an unknown person by either молодой человек or девушка (as in "hey, <person>, can I order desert?" or "hey, <person>, excuse me, but can...

"What, young ladies can't be with young men?". I'm confused. Peter the Great was a lady?[/quote:v4051oz5]

Transexual. I saw it on Jerry Springer, so it must be true. That whole "My Tsar is a slut"...

Uh huh. Well, maybe they just ran away from home and weren't really abducted. Ever think about that!? :lol:

Нет. Запретно.

"Abducted?" What, were they part of the mob or something? How about "deleted" or "removed?" :wink:

Right. And that's to say nothing of the length/depth of the articles. On numerous occasions, I've seen an article in English that substantially more in depth than its Russian version. But in these...

Thanks for the source -- I don't think I read the Register's version, but some CNN-caliber thing. As anyone can see by reading it, my post belongs in wikipedia, probably. Perhaps I should readdress...

Yes, but not necessarilly accurate.[/quote]

Well, NOTHING is necessarily accurate; whenver humans are involved something is apt to be screwed up. There HAVE been concerns about it containing...

It IS a Russian forum. It also is a place to post reasonable, well-thought out questions. There are some people who are really knowledgable and helpful, but you need to practice some common sense and...

Now Stalin has opened up a chain of trendy restaurants in Portugal, where he lives with his poodle, Mr. Paisley.

The Romanovs are now thought by historians to be greatly overrated in terms of the...