three Russian questions

[Edward M Dumanis]

On Tue, 4 Sep 2001, Russell Valentino wrote:

> Dear Colleagues,
>
> I'm reading a contemporary short story that poses a few lexical problems.
> Can anyone tell me whether the Russian word "menty" might be used as slang
> for the police?

Yes.

> Second, does anyone know what TsSKA stands for?

Tsentral'nyj Sportivnyj Klub Armii

> Could it be a soccer team?

It could be any team of that club including a soccer team, hockey team,
and so on.

> Finally, could the word for stable, "koniushnia," be used as
> a term of abuse to refer to a person or a group of people, something like
> "lackeys" or "stable boys"?

Not to a person but rather to a situation.


Edward Dumanis <dumanis at acsu.buffalo.edu>

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