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[John Dunn]

It was Chernomyrdin: Хотели как лучше, а получилось как всегда [Khoteli kak luchshe, a poluchilos' kak vsegda].  Sources for his collected wit and wisdom include the following:

http://www.newsru.com/world/01sep2003/chernomirdin.html

A. Shchuplov, Kto est' khu, Moscow, Politbiuro [sic], 1999, pp. 210-12.  Kto est' khu is one of Gorbachev's sayings (even if the phrase was apparently coined by someone else).   

As for visas, I suspect the main effect of the agreement referred to will be to make it easier for Russian citizens to obtain Schengen visas, rather than the other way round.  My understanding is that the main problems are not with the issuing of the Russian visa itself, but with sorting out the invitation and the registration.  Significantly those parts of the operation are outwith the control of the MID.

John Dunn.

-----Original Message-----
From: Dustin Hosseini <iamlearningenglish at GMAIL.COM>
To: SEELANGS at BAMA.UA.EDU
Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2007 02:29:20 -0500
Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] registration

As with all laws, they start out well-intentioned, and end up a complete
mess.  Who was it?  Chernomyrdin or Gorbachev that said, we try to make
things better and they end up worse or the same.


John Dunn
Honorary Research Fellow, SMLC (Slavonic Studies)
University of Glasgow, Scotland

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