FW: Medvedev!

[colkitto]

As an approximation, and deciding to ignore getting into the minutiae of the 
hard/soft contrast in Russian, while homing in on the salient items, I 
suggested, for non-Russian speakers not terribly interested in linguistics 
or phonetics:

"midVAYdif"  - stress on the VAY - in a private communication.

Robert Orr

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