From davidagoldfarb at GMAIL.COM  Wed May  1 01:29:15 2013
From: davidagoldfarb at GMAIL.COM (David Goldfarb)
Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2013 21:29:15 -0400
Subject: Russian keyboards
In-Reply-To: <51805621.2020609@earthlink.net>
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As the only American who works in a Polish government office, I'm the only
person using the "standard" Polish keyboard that I've seen on ancient
Polish typewriters that probably date to the 1930s. Once I had an
intern--an American--who also used the national Polish keyboard, but I
don't think I know any Poles who use it, though I'm sure they must be out
there.  The Poles all use Polonized Windows or iOS with alt-keys to form
the diacritics.

Before computers, in many European countries, typing was considered
something of a specialized skill, appropriate only to professional typists
and people in certain professions, like journalism.  In Poland, when
computers became commonly available, I don't think many people had any
particular allegiance to the national typewriter keyboard.  As recently as
the early 1990s, when I started learning Russian, I didn't know many
Russians who could type, so I wouldn't be surprised if they are not such
purists about their national keyboard.
-- 
David A. Goldfarb
Curator of Literature and Humanities
Polish Cultural Institute in New York
350 Fifth Avenue, Suite 4621
New York, NY 10118
tel. 212-239-7300, ext. 3002
fax 212-239-7577
www.polishculture-nyc.org
--
http://www.davidagoldfarb.com

On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 7:39 PM, Jules Levin <ameliede at earthlink.net> wrote:

> **
> On 4/30/2013 3:30 PM, Genevra Gerhart wrote:
>
>  The argument against a phonetic keyboard is that you’ll have grave
> difficulties with a Russian keyboard in Russia.
>
> This whole discussion is a rerun, and it ignores the reality of 2013.  It
> is like watching a Simpsons rerun from 1992.  I assume that a student in
> Russia will have a personal electronic writing machine with any number of
> keyboards installed, according to the desires of the student.  Since all
> keyboard arrangements are more or less arbitrary, there is no inherent
> virtue in the Standard vs. a phonetic keyboard.  The goals of the
> individual student should determine the choice.  Even if one can learn a
> second keyboard, why invest the time unless one derives aesthetic pleasure
> from such learning.  [This is not sarcastic:  I hate driving and would hate
> to have to learn a new way of driving in a Russian car, but I actually
> enjoy the act of typing, which I learned about 60 years ago.  And I love
> how fast I can type Russian on my phonetic keyboard.]
> The last time this came up, it was decided that if an American wanted to
> get a job in a Russian office it would make sense to learn the Standard
> keyboard, but now I think even this reason is Simpsons-1992.  Imagine that
> I am an office manager in Moscow, and for some reason (bilingual in Russian
> and English?) I want to hire an American for the summer.  Why?  Aside from
> getting an English speaker who can type letters in English, perhaps there
> is some cachet in having an attractive young American person in my office.
> Only this attractive young American informs me that s/he only knows the
> phonetic keyboard.  What do I say?  I say, well, can you install this
> keyboard on the computer you will be using?  Need I go on...?
> So in the end, there is absolutely NO reason to learn the standard
> keyboard anymore.
> Jules Levin (who obviously enjoys typing...)
> Los Angeles
>
>
<http://www.davidagoldfarb.com>

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From jwilson at SRAS.ORG  Wed May  1 06:21:35 2013
From: jwilson at SRAS.ORG (Josh Wilson)
Date: Wed, 1 May 2013 10:21:35 +0400
Subject: Russian keyboards
In-Reply-To: <CAJJ8JPSrvo4GPjQ59xc39TFzytB6jZQaMQ0ZufqS0oV-ygV5mA@mail.gmail.com>
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To get back to the original question. 

 

I'm not sure which is most popular - but we have three of them that have
been mentioned on SEELANGS before listed in section 1 (top of the page)
here: http://www.sras.org/library

 

Perhaps try them, see which you (or a sampling of your students) like best,
and run with it. 

 

Best, 

 

Josh Wilson
Assistant Director
The School of Russian and Asian Studies
Editor in Chief
Vestnik, The Journal of Russian and Asian Studies
SRAS.org 
jwilson at sras.org

 

 

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[mailto:SEELANGS at LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of David Goldfarb
Sent: Wednesday, May 01, 2013 5:29 AM
To: SEELANGS at LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] Russian keyboards

 

As the only American who works in a Polish government office, I'm the only
person using the "standard" Polish keyboard that I've seen on ancient Polish
typewriters that probably date to the 1930s. Once I had an intern--an
American--who also used the national Polish keyboard, but I don't think I
know any Poles who use it, though I'm sure they must be out there.  The
Poles all use Polonized Windows or iOS with alt-keys to form the diacritics.

Before computers, in many European countries, typing was considered
something of a specialized skill, appropriate only to professional typists
and people in certain professions, like journalism.  In Poland, when
computers became commonly available, I don't think many people had any
particular allegiance to the national typewriter keyboard.  As recently as
the early 1990s, when I started learning Russian, I didn't know many
Russians who could type, so I wouldn't be surprised if they are not such
purists about their national keyboard.

-- 
David A. Goldfarb
Curator of Literature and Humanities
Polish Cultural Institute in New York
350 Fifth Avenue, Suite 4621
New York, NY 10118
tel. 212-239-7300, ext. 3002
fax 212-239-7577
www.polishculture-nyc.org
--
http://www.davidagoldfarb.com

On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 7:39 PM, Jules Levin <ameliede at earthlink.net> wrote:

On 4/30/2013 3:30 PM, Genevra Gerhart wrote: 

The argument against a phonetic keyboard is that you'll have grave
difficulties with a Russian keyboard in Russia.  

This whole discussion is a rerun, and it ignores the reality of 2013.  It is
like watching a Simpsons rerun from 1992.  I assume that a student in Russia
will have a personal electronic writing machine with any number of keyboards
installed, according to the desires of the student.  Since all keyboard
arrangements are more or less arbitrary, there is no inherent virtue in the
Standard vs. a phonetic keyboard.  The goals of the individual student
should determine the choice.  Even if one can learn a second keyboard, why
invest the time unless one derives aesthetic pleasure from such learning.
[This is not sarcastic:  I hate driving and would hate to have to learn a
new way of driving in a Russian car, but I actually enjoy the act of typing,
which I learned about 60 years ago.  And I love how fast I can type Russian
on my phonetic keyboard.] 
The last time this came up, it was decided that if an American wanted to get
a job in a Russian office it would make sense to learn the Standard
keyboard, but now I think even this reason is Simpsons-1992.  Imagine that I
am an office manager in Moscow, and for some reason (bilingual in Russian
and English?) I want to hire an American for the summer.  Why?  Aside from
getting an English speaker who can type letters in English, perhaps there is
some cachet in having an attractive young American person in my office.
Only this attractive young American informs me that s/he only knows the
phonetic keyboard.  What do I say?  I say, well, can you install this
keyboard on the computer you will be using?  Need I go on...?
So in the end, there is absolutely NO reason to learn the standard keyboard
anymore.
Jules Levin (who obviously enjoys typing...)
Los Angeles




 

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From temp0001 at SHININGHAPPYPEOPLE.NET  Wed May  1 15:32:14 2013
From: temp0001 at SHININGHAPPYPEOPLE.NET (Don Livingston)
Date: Wed, 1 May 2013 10:32:14 -0500
Subject: Russian keyboards
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Sarah,

A phonetic keyboard allows the student to be much more rapidly productive than a FYVA keyboard, which significantly lowers student frustrations.  I tell my own students to use whichever keyboard they like better, but I usually find that even the ones who start with FYVA (Russian standard) leave it for for an ASDF (phonetic) one.

A couple of my colleagues have argued that a student should only use the FYVA keyboard because if they ever get a job in Russia, they will have problems typing because they will have to use a FYVA keyboard there.  That's a very silly argument for two reasons.  First off, every keyboard in Russia has both Cyrillic and Latin letters printed on it.  What student, newly arrived in Russia, will be confused by the concept that pushing the key that has the Cyrillic letter on it will produce a Cyrillic letter? Not one, of course.  Secondly, the vast majority of our students will not be working in Russia, so student frustration is minimized by providing them with a keyboard that optimizes their productivity and optimally matches the pre-printed letters on the language-lab computer.  Why should we decrease the performance of the majority of our students for the sake of the minority?

I have also heard it argued that a FYVA keyboard should be exclusively used because if the student is working in Russia (already a condition that affects the minority of our students) and the student doesn't have admin privileges on the computer, then s/he will not be able to install his/her most familiar keyboard.  Well, I supposed that might happen to someone somewhere, but this argument strikes me as really stretching a point.  Even here at a ASU, a security-conscious major university, the publically accessible computers allow users to download and install keyboards made with the MS keyboard installer; there is essentially no security risk.

Lastly, let's discuss accent marks.  You as a teacher probably want to occasionally include accent marks in your handouts, and if you are gloriously demanding, you might want your students to produce accent marks in their homework.  If that is the case, wouldn't you and your students be better off using a phonetic keyboard that has the accent already available in a position that is easily typed without complicated shifts/alts/ctrls or numbers?  To the best of my knowledge, none of the pre-installed MS keyboards have such a thing.

It is these considerations that led me many years ago to compile the "Russian for Gringos" keyboard.  The letter positions match the recommendations for the AATSEEL student keyboard, the most rational phonetic system I have encountered, and the acute accent is located on the forward slash key.  If you wish to download it free of charge, you may find it at the URL below, and it does run on Windows 7 and many earlier versions.

All the best, D. E. Livingston.

Windows 7 & Vista --  http://www.public.asu.edu/~deliving/resources/vista/index.htm
Windows XP, NT & 2000 --  http://www.public.asu.edu/~deliving/resources/xp/index.htm

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From sarahhurst at ALASKA.NET  Wed May  1 16:16:04 2013
From: sarahhurst at ALASKA.NET (Sarah Hurst)
Date: Wed, 1 May 2013 08:16:04 -0800
Subject: Russian keyboards
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This has been very interesting. I didn't know that phonetic keyboards were
so widely used. I assumed that the standard Russian keyboard would be easier
to use because the most frequently-used letters are more central, as with
the QWERTY keyboard. 

 

Sarah Hurst





 


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From pyz at BRAMA.COM  Wed May  1 16:55:52 2013
From: pyz at BRAMA.COM (Max Pyziur)
Date: Wed, 1 May 2013 12:55:52 -0400
Subject: Russian keyboards
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> This has been very interesting. I didn't know that phonetic keyboards 
> were so widely used. I assumed that the standard Russian keyboard would 
> be easier to use because the most frequently-used letters are more
> central, as with the QWERTY keyboard.

To add some to the discussion, the choice of keyboard layout seems to 
challenge notions of fluency. WHile I agree with Don Livingston's comment 
that a phonetic/look-a-like keyboard greatly facilitates productivity, 
like writing, keyboard layout seems to me to have something to do with the 
level of target language fluency.

Being a heritage speaker of Ukrainian, in the early 1990s I opted for 
remapping my own keyboards for something like a phonetic keyboard (this 
was still the days of 8 bit fonts and cyrillic encoding conflicts - 1251 
vs KOI8, pre hyper acceptance of UTF-8).

Sure, my keyboard had
A - А
B - Б
H - Г
and
W - Ш

Being a touch typist at between 50-70 wpm (when the winds at my back), 
phonetic/lookalike was the way to go.

However, once in a while there is an ИЦУКЕН keyboard, what then? My desire 
has always been to develop touch-typing abilities on that layout. But 
where are there tutors or exercises? Well, after twenty years of waiting, 
I think that the moment has arrived.

Similar to Don's references for resources, I'll give you mine. I'm a Linux 
user (Fedora to be specific). That's alien for most everyone. 
Nevertheless, the resources are considerable. No longer do I have to 
create my own keyboard mappings as in earlier days of Linux distributions. 
Today, I use the XFCE Desktop environment (there are at least four in the 
Linux world, to Windows one; but this isn't a religious preference, more a 
decorative one).

XFCE (and the more popular ones of KDE and Gnome) offer preset multiple 
keyboard mappings for use with different languages: for Ukrainian there 
are seven (the legacy Soviet one along with six other 
semi-phonetic/lookalike ones). For Russian, there are 13 (including 
Bashkirian). Given this menu 
of choices, my Cyrillic keyboard-mapping days are over.

As for multi-lingual typing tutors, the Linux and FOSS (Free and Open 
Source Software) community offers Klavaro; it looks like the best of 
several for this purpose.


>
> Sarah Hurst
>


fyi,

Max Pyziur
pyz at brama.com

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From genevragerhart at GMAIL.COM  Wed May  1 17:14:10 2013
From: genevragerhart at GMAIL.COM (Genevra Gerhart)
Date: Wed, 1 May 2013 10:14:10 -0700
Subject: Russian keyboards
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My mistake was learning to type before there were computers!

 

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Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] Russian keyboards

 

This has been very interesting. I didn't know that phonetic keyboards were
so widely used. I assumed that the standard Russian keyboard would be easier
to use because the most frequently-used letters are more central, as with
the QWERTY keyboard. 

 

Sarah Hurst

 

 

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From sarahhurst at ALASKA.NET  Wed May  1 17:31:39 2013
From: sarahhurst at ALASKA.NET (Sarah Hurst)
Date: Wed, 1 May 2013 09:31:39 -0800
Subject: Russian keyboards
In-Reply-To: <000301ce468f$4cc723f0$e6556bd0$@gmail.com>
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Mine too! I somehow found an old Russian typewriter in the 1990s and used it
to type my essays for university. Also, this was in the UK. I don't know if
phonetic keyboards are used as commonly in the UK as they seem to be in the
U.S. It reminds me of the current debate in the U.S. about not bothering to
teach cursive. I suppose now that people communicate mainly via texting, the
most important skill is using an iPhone. 

 

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My mistake was learning to type before there were computers!

 

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Sent: Wednesday, May 01, 2013 9:16 AM
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Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] Russian keyboards

 

This has been very interesting. I didn't know that phonetic keyboards were
so widely used. I assumed that the standard Russian keyboard would be easier
to use because the most frequently-used letters are more central, as with
the QWERTY keyboard. 

 

Sarah Hurst

 

 

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From aisrael at AMERICAN.EDU  Wed May  1 17:54:07 2013
From: aisrael at AMERICAN.EDU (Alina Israeli)
Date: Wed, 1 May 2013 13:54:07 -0400
Subject: Russian keyboards
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My 2¢. Switching from QWERTY to AZERTY is also not easy if you are  
used to touch typing.

For individuals, not labs, I suppose, there is a Ukelele (sic!)  
program that allows you to change your keyboard layout. It allowed me  
at one point to synchronize my Mac and my PC, because various phonetic  
keyboards place Щ or Ю rather according to their own desires.

On May 1, 2013, at 12:16 PM, Sarah Hurst wrote:

> This has been very interesting. I didn't know that phonetic  
> keyboards were so widely used. I assumed that the standard Russian  
> keyboard would be easier to use because the most frequently-used  
> letters are more central, as with the QWERTY keyboard.
>
>

Alina Israeli
Associate Professor of Russian
WLC, American University
4400 Massachusetts Ave.
Washington DC 20016
(202) 885-2387 	fax (202) 885-1076
aisrael at american.edu






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From e.gapova at GMAIL.COM  Wed May  1 18:27:04 2013
From: e.gapova at GMAIL.COM (Elena Gapova)
Date: Wed, 1 May 2013 14:27:04 -0400
Subject: His Butler's Sister
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Deanna Durbin passed away several days ago (yes, she was still alive).

Here's the link to the famous piece with Russian songs from "His Butler's
Sister" (1943)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3I4sg3wc6c

Elena Gapova

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From mdenner at STETSON.EDU  Wed May  1 18:57:59 2013
From: mdenner at STETSON.EDU (Michael A. Denner)
Date: Wed, 1 May 2013 14:57:59 -0400
Subject: Russian keyboards
In-Reply-To: <CAFRaNyJhqgzxSVWe7vHuMXNYRJ2ZLUpeh1nAJWS7unePzqabwQ@mail.gmail.com>
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i have to agree with colleagues here who are astonished that this point is
being discussed, particularly inasmuch as it's simple to install both the
soviet (russian) keyboard and a phonetic. i use the latter and my colleague
the former, and we just switch the keyboard setting with a click. кому как.

russian for gringos works on every computer i've ever used it on. and as
don livingston points out, it's far and away the easiest way to mark
stress... i might have mapped a few of the characters differently, but...

finally, a workaround that i use all the time: google translate with the
privet->привет function enabled, or even better the voice input method
(quite good!). as i am a sloppy typist in the best of circumstances, i
frankly appreciate its empathy for my foibles...

~mad

.oOo.oOo.oOo.oOo.oOo.oOo.oOo.oOo.oOo.oOo.oOo.oOo.
   Dr. Michael A. Denner
   Associate Professor of Russian Studies
   Editor, Tolstoy Studies Journal
   Director, Russian Studies Program

   Director, University Honors Program

   Schedule an appointment
<http://www2.stetson.edu/~mdenner/appointment.htm> with me. (Check
your time zone!)

   Contact Information:
      Russian Studies Program
      Stetson University
      Campus Box 8361
      DeLand, FL 32720-3756
      386.822.7381 (department)

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On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 1:54 PM, Alina Israeli <aisrael at american.edu> wrote:

> My 2¢. Switching from QWERTY to AZERTY is also not easy if you are used to
> touch typing.
>
> For individuals, not labs, I suppose, there is a Ukelele (sic!) program
> that allows you to change your keyboard layout. It allowed me at one point
> to synchronize my Mac and my PC, because various phonetic keyboards place Щ
> or Ю rather according to their own desires.
>
> On May 1, 2013, at 12:16 PM, Sarah Hurst wrote:
>
> This has been very interesting. I didn't know that phonetic keyboards were
> so widely used. I assumed that the standard Russian keyboard would be
> easier to use because the most frequently-used letters are more central, as
> with the QWERTY keyboard.****
> ** **
>
>
>   Alina Israeli
> Associate Professor of Russian
> WLC, American University
> 4400 Massachusetts Ave.
> Washington DC 20016
> (202) 885-2387  fax (202) 885-1076
> aisrael at american.edu
>
>
>
>
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From falcon at USNA.EDU  Thu May  2 13:36:36 2013
From: falcon at USNA.EDU (Danine Falcon)
Date: Thu, 2 May 2013 09:36:36 -0400
Subject: SEELANGS Digest - 1 May 2013 (#2013-189)
In-Reply-To: <SEELANGS%201305020000072069.0008@LISTSERV.UA.EDU>
Message-ID: <THU.2.MAY.2013.093636.0400.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.UA.EDU>

Actually, the QWERTY keyboard was not adopted because "the most frequently
used letters were the most central" -- quite the opposite. In the beginning
days of typewriting, early typists were so fast that the individual rods
containing the letter imprints would get tangled up with each other as they
went up and down striking the paper. Typewriter designers went back to the
drawing board and redesigned the layout of the keys so that it took longer
to type, thus slowing down the rods and reducing the frequency of jams. For
what it's worth. Have a nice day,

Danine Falcon
Languages and Culture Studies Dept.
Nimitz G 058
U.S. Naval Academy
589 McNair Road, MS 10C
Annapolis, MD 21402

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> Date:    Wed, 1 May 2013 13:54:07 -0400
> From:    Alina Israeli <aisrael at AMERICAN.EDU>
> Subject: Re: Russian keyboards
>
> My 2¢. Switching from QWERTY to AZERTY is also not easy if you are
> used to touch typing.
>
> For individuals, not labs, I suppose, there is a Ukelele (sic!)
> program that allows you to change your keyboard layout. It allowed me
> at one point to synchronize my Mac and my PC, because various phonetic
> keyboards place Щ or Ю rather according to their own desires.
>
> On May 1, 2013, at 12:16 PM, Sarah Hurst wrote:
>
> > This has been very interesting. I didn't know that phonetic
> > keyboards were so widely used. I assumed that the standard Russian
> > keyboard would be easier to use because the most frequently-used
> > letters are more central, as with the QWERTY keyboard.
> >
> >
>
> Alina Israeli
> Associate Professor of Russian
> WLC, American University
> 4400 Massachusetts Ave.
> Washington DC 20016
> (202) 885-2387        fax (202) 885-1076
> aisrael at american.edu
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>
>
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> Date:    Wed, 1 May 2013 14:27:04 -0400
> From:    Elena Gapova <e.gapova at GMAIL.COM>
> Subject: His Butler's Sister
>
> Deanna Durbin passed away several days ago (yes, she was still alive).
>
> Here's the link to the famous piece with Russian songs from "His Butler's
> Sister" (1943)
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3I4sg3wc6c
>
> Elena Gapova
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From kotsyuba at FAS.HARVARD.EDU  Thu May  2 19:54:29 2013
From: kotsyuba at FAS.HARVARD.EDU (Oleh Kotsyuba (Harvard Univ))
Date: Thu, 2 May 2013 15:54:29 -0400
Subject: The Krytyka Institute Launches Journal of Ukrainian Politics and
 Society
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PRESS RELEASE

May 2013

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE



Contact: Oleh Kotsyuba

Email: kotsyuba at krytyka.com

Phone: +1-617-500-8289





The Krytyka Institute Launches the First English-language

Scholarly Journal of Ukrainian Social Sciences



May 2, 2013 - Kyiv, Ukraine, and Cambridge, MA, USA



The Krytyka Institute (Kyiv, Ukraine) is proud to announce the launch  
of the first peer-reviewed English-language scholarly journal with a  
focus on Ukrainian social sciences - the Journal of Ukrainian Politics  
and Society (JUPS).

The project will be headed by a team of young scholars in political  
science, serving as Editors-in-Chief: Dr. Nadiya Kravets and Dr. Olga  
Onuch. The journal has attracted a number of internationally acclaimed  
scholars to serve on the Journal’s Editorial Board (please find full  
list below). The Journal has announced its first Call for Submissions  
(please find below).

The Journal of Ukrainian Politics and Society’s mission will be to aid  
the development of social sciences in Ukraine. The Editorial Board  
that will peer-review all articles submitted consists of world- 
renowned experts on Ukraine as well as exceptional emerging scholars.  
Published bi-annually and in an open-source format, the Journal will  
have a quick turn-around time between submission, review and  
consequent publication.

“Our vision is to embed the study of Ukraine in broader regional,  
international and transnational processes,” emphasizes Nadiya Kravets  
who received her DPhil in Politics at University of Oxford in 2012  
where she defended her dissertation on domestic sources of Ukraine’s  
foreign and security policy since independence. Dr. Kravets is  
currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Davis Center for Russian and  
Eurasian Studies at Harvard University.

“In pursuing our goal, the Journal will focus on examining Ukraine's  
social and political transformations in comparative perspective as a  
part of larger macro-systemic, political, economic, legal, historical,  
and social dynamics,” explains Olga Onuch who received her DPhil in  
Politics at the University of Oxford in 2011 where she defended her  
dissertation on social mobilization, protest, elections and the role  
of the media in democratizing states in Eastern Europe and Latin  
America. Dr. Onuch is currently a Newton Prize Fellow in Comparative  
Politics at the School of Interdisciplinary and Area Studies at the  
University of Oxford.

“In launching this new groundbreaking scholarly initiative, we aim to  
widen the pool of scholars who provide knowledge about Ukraine to  
global readership by helping local academics communicate their ideas  
to peers worldwide and in English,” adds George G. Grabowicz,  
Professor of Ukrainian Literature at Harvard and President of The  
Krytyka Institute.

The Journal particularly seeks to publish articles that place  
knowledge of Ukraine in wider comparative and interdisciplinary  
perspectives (within the region and with countries in other regions),  
and which shape and identify new directions in the study of Ukraine.

All materials will be published in bi-annual editions in an open- 
source format available to wide audience at no charge. Krytyka’s  
English edition team will perform the editing for the project, as well  
as translation and copy-editing of submissions in Russian and  
Ukrainian. The Krytyka Institute will host the Journal’s website on  
its new web platform that is currently in development. Krytyka  
reserves all rights to materials published.

ABOUT KRYTYKA

Krytyka, the journal, was founded in 1997 by Ukrainian and American  
intellectuals to promote open and democratic values and high  
international standards of debate. By 2000, Krytyka also started  
publishing books (as Krytyka Press) and in the course of the decade  
has become generally recognized as perhaps the most prestigious  
independent publishing house in Ukraine, specializing both in academic  
books and belles lettres.

The Krytyka Institute was founded in 2003 as a not-for-profit research  
institution to focus Krytyka’s research activities and academic  
goals.  Since then it has organized two major international  
conferences in Kyiv, and a number of academic and cultural symposia  
and events, and published dozens of books on subjects ranging from  
history to literature. Its latest publication is Chronicle of  
Collectivization and the Holodomor in Ukraine, 1927-1933 by Ludmyla  
Hrynevych, a compilation of documents and original research on events  
leading up to the Great Famine of 1932-33.



More information about the Journal of Ukrainian Politics and Society  
(JUPS):

Please like and join the Journal’s page on Facebook! Stay informed  
with frequent updates!

https://www.facebook.com/JournalOfUkrainianPoliticsAndSociety



Contact the Editors-in-Chief via Email:

Nadiya Kravets, kravets at krytyka.com

Olga Onuch, onuch at krytyka.com





EDITORIAL BOARD – JOURNAL OF UKRAINIAN POLITICS AND SOCIETY

Margarita M. Balmaceda (Seton Hall University)

Timothy J. Colton (Harvard University)

Paul J. D’Anieri (University of Florida)

Marta Dyczok (University of Western Ontario)

Rory Finnin (University of Cambridge)

George Grabowicz (Harvard University)

Lubomyr Hajda (Harvard University)

Henry Hale (George Washington University)

Oleksiy Haran (University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy)

Yaroslav Hrytsak (Ukrainian Catholic University)

Carol S. Leonard (University of Oxford)

Stanislav Markus (University of Chicago)

Tamara Martsenyuk (University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy)

Serhii Plokhii (Harvard University)

Mykola Ryabchuk (University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy)

Gwendolyn Sasse (University of Oxford)

Oxana Shevel (Tufts University)

Peter Solomon (University of Toronto)

Lucan Way (University of Toronto)

Andrew Wilson (University College London)

Maksym Yakovlyev (University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy)



CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

We invite article contributions for an inaugural issue of the Journal  
of Ukrainian Politics and Society from scholars working on  
developments in Ukrainian economics, history, international relations,  
law, politics, public policy, and sociology. All methods and  
approaches will be considered. Manuscripts should not have been  
previously published. Preference will be given to articles that  
present findings from new research.



Please adhere to the following guidelines:

Authors should limit their manuscripts to 8,000-10,000 words  
(including footnotes), although occasionally we will consider longer  
articles of an exceptional quality.

Please remove your name or any references in the manuscript that might  
identify you.

Include an abstract (100-150 words) on the first page of your  
manuscript.

Please send your submissions and all queries to the following Email  
address:

jups at krytyka.com

Full text of the Call for Submissions on Google Docs:

https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B081JGIdrILULTlFZHhpTWhOeE0/edit?pli=1









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From ameliede at EARTHLINK.NET  Fri May  3 05:59:53 2013
From: ameliede at EARTHLINK.NET (Jules Levin)
Date: Thu, 2 May 2013 22:59:53 -0700
Subject: Herzen
Message-ID: <THU.2.MAY.2013.225953.0700.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.UA.EDU>

A lazy American would appreciate links to works by Alexander Herzen 
available on line (in Russ of course).
Thanks very much,
Jules Levin

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From rjeoutski at GMAIL.COM  Fri May  3 08:32:18 2013
From: rjeoutski at GMAIL.COM (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Vladislav_Rj=E9outski?=)
Date: Fri, 3 May 2013 09:32:18 +0100
Subject: Fwd: French in Russia project publication of documents
In-Reply-To: <CADHfsiE3+TUi3FuHv=_E4jHk2ss0uLMzmj6JrzWiMrHN-4DSpw@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <FRI.3.MAY.2013.093218.0100.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.UA.EDU>

Dear all,

We are pleased to be able to announce that we have published on the website
of our AHRC-funded project on ‘The History of the French Language in
Russia’ the first batch of twelve pairs of documents (primary source texts
and introductory essays on them) in the corpus we are constructing there.

These documents may be found in the ‘Scholarly resources’ section of the
site at http://frinru.ilrt.bris.ac.uk . Click  on Texts/Introductions in
the navigation pane in the left-hand margin to access these documents.

This first batch contains the following material (in rough chronological
order of the composition of the text in question, from the 1710s to the
1860s):

   - Teaching and learning French in the early eighteenth century: Ivan
   Shcherbatov’s letters to his French teacher
   - French in Russian diplomacy: Antiokh Kantemir’s address to King George
   II and his diplomatic and other correspondence
   - French in public education in eighteenth-century Russia: the case of
   the Cadet Corps
   - Translation and propaganda in the mid-eighteenth century: French
   versions of Sumarokov’s tragedy *Sinav and Truvor*
   - French in the education of the nobility: Mikhail Shcherbatov’s letters
   to his son Dmitrii
   - Noble sociability in French: romances in Princess Natalia Kurakina’s
   album
   - Family correspondence in the Russian nobility: letters from Georges
   and Alexandre Meyendorff to their mother (1815-18)
   - Foreign languages and noble sociability: documents from Russian
   Masonic lodges
   - French in the nineteenth-century Russian salon: Fiodor Rostopchin’s
   ‘memoirs’
   - Ego-writing in French: the diary of Anastasiia Iakushkina
   - Family correspondence in the Russian nobility: a letter of 1847 from
   Valerii Levashov to his cousin, Ivan D. Iakushkin
   - Xenophobia in French: Count Andrei Rostopchin’s reflections in the
   catalogue of his library

We aim to publish at least three further batches of such material at
roughly six-monthly intervals during the lifetime of the project, up until
autumn 2014.

With all best wishes,

Gesine Argent, Derek Offord and Vladislav Rjéoutski

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From olga_musaeva at HOTMAIL.COM  Fri May  3 10:16:51 2013
From: olga_musaeva at HOTMAIL.COM (Olga Musaeva)
Date: Fri, 3 May 2013 13:16:51 +0300
Subject: Math in Moscow?
In-Reply-To: <CD8E0670.5DE9F%amewington@davidson.edu>
Message-ID: <FRI.3.MAY.2013.131651.0300.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.UA.EDU>

Dear Amanda,this university is a really great place to study and I hope that your student will get there. If you´ll need something, I could try to help (as I live in Moscow, I hope that would´t be a problem).Good luck,Olga

> Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2013 22:41:17 +0000
> From: amewington at DAVIDSON.EDU
> Subject: [SEELANGS] Math in Moscow?
> To: SEELANGS at LISTSERV.UA.EDU
> 
> I have a first-year student who plans to major in Math and minor in Russian and is interested in finding out more about the Math in Moscow program: http://www.mccme.ru/mathinmoscow/index.php
> 
> Understandably, our Registrar and Study Abroad office would like to know about the program.  Anyone out there have any experience with Math in Moscow?  I'd appreciate your feedback.  Please respond off list: amewington at davidson.edu
> 
> Thank you!
> 
> Amanda
> 
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> Amanda Ewington, Ph.D.
> Associate Professor, Department Chair
> Russian Studies
> Davidson College
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> Fax 704-894-2782
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From e.gapova at GMAIL.COM  Fri May  3 13:21:41 2013
From: e.gapova at GMAIL.COM (Elena Gapova)
Date: Fri, 3 May 2013 09:21:41 -0400
Subject: Herzen
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На блюдечке с голубой каемочкой: http://az.lib.ru/g/gercen_a_i/


Elena Gapova


2013/5/3 Jules Levin <ameliede at earthlink.net>

> **
> A lazy American would appreciate links to works by Alexander Herzen
> available on line (in Russ of course).
> Thanks very much,
> Jules Levin
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From cchenowe at GMAIL.COM  Fri May  3 12:23:28 2013
From: cchenowe at GMAIL.COM (Carlotta Chenoweth)
Date: Fri, 3 May 2013 16:23:28 +0400
Subject: Available Housing in Moscow
Message-ID: <FRI.3.MAY.2013.162328.0400.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.UA.EDU>

Dear Seelangers,

I'm posting this for a friend- a room in her lovely apartment will be
available from June 1st:

One large bedroom in a three bedroom apartment centrally located on Ulitsa
Prechistenka, near metro stations Kropotkinskaya and Park Kultury.
Beautiful, quiet area in a pre-Revolution building. The room in furnished,
and rent includes all utilities, WiFi and weekly cleaning. 40,000p per
month.

If interested, please contact Alexandra at moscowstay at gmail.com,

Best regards,

Carlotta Chenoweth

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From Alexandra.Smith at ED.AC.UK  Fri May  3 09:47:11 2013
From: Alexandra.Smith at ED.AC.UK (Alexandra Smith)
Date: Fri, 3 May 2013 10:47:11 +0100
Subject: a conference on memory in Padua -7-9 May Italy --FYI (in a
 different format UTF8)
Message-ID: <FRI.3.MAY.2013.104711.0100.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.UA.EDU>

FYI -- My apologies for reposting this programme since the previous  
message did not show Russian and Italian titles.

----------------------------
Sent on behalf of the organisers:

Please feel free to contact the organizers for any request of
information
about the conference.

Andrea Gullotta & Claudia Criveller
red.avtobiografija at gmail.com

andrea.gullotta at unipd.it
claudia.criveller at unipd.it



Conference Programme

7 MAY 2013
SALA PALADIN, PALAZZO MORONI

9.30 Official opening, CARMEN CASTILLO PEÑA
9.45 Introduction, CLAUDIA CRIVELLER and ANDREA GULLOTTA

First Session
"Autobiographical forms and genres in Russian literature"
Chair: MARIALUISA FERRAZZI

10.00 JURIJ ZARECKIJ, Vysšaja Škola Ekonomiki, Moscow
Протопопица (Настасья Марковна в «Житии» Аввакума)
10.25 RODOLPHE BAUDIN, University of Strasbourg
La simplicité comme idéal du Moi épistolaire: l’exemple de la
correspondance d’exil d’Alexandre Radichtchev
10.50 Discussion
11.00 Break

11.30 CATHERINE VIOLLET, CNRS Paris
Mémoires de Catherine II de Russie: réécritures
11.55 CINZIA DE LOTTO, University of Verona
Гоголь: авторская «исповедь»?
12.20 PATRIZIA DEOTTO, University of Triest
Субъективная и литературная память в автобиографии по заказу
12.45 Discussion
13.00 Lunch

Second session
"Looks from the outside, looks from the inside"
Chair CINZIA DE LOTTO

14.30 EMILIE MURPHY, University of Nottingham
Memory and Identity in Russian Noblewomen’s Francophone Travel
Narratives
(1777-1848)
14.55 NATAL’JA RODIGINA, University of Novosibirsk,
TAT’JANA SABUROVA, University of Omsk
Воспоминания журналиста: время, пространство, память в
авто/биографической
прозе А.В. Амфитеатрова и В.М. Дорошевича
15.20 Discussion
15.30 Break

16.00 STEFANO ALOE, University of Verona
Реконструкция литературной среды: дневник В.К. Кюхельбекера в годы
заточения и ссылки
16.25 ANDREA GULLOTTA, University “Ca’ Foscari” of Venice
Memory in a Different Space: The Memoirs by Escapees from the Soviet
Camps
(1918-1939)
16.50 PIETRO TOSCO, University of Verona
Autobiografia e romanzesco nella scrittura di Vasilij Grossman:
riflessioni intorno al Dnevnik prochoždenija rukopisi
17.15 Discussion


8 MAY 2013
SALA PALADIN, PALAZZO MORONI

First session
"The life of the others, the life among the others"
Chair PATRIZIA DEOTTO

9.30 EVGENIJ DOBRENKO, University of Sheffield
Молодой Эйхенбаум и “Молодой Толстой”: Литература как оформление опыта
жизни
9.55 ROBERTA DE GIORGI, University of Udine
Autobiografia per interposta persona: My life di Sof’ja Andreevna
Tolstaja
10.20 EMILIA MAGNANINI, University “Ca’ Foscari” of Venice
L’«io» e il «noi» nel diario di Vera Aksakova (sullo sfondo della
scrittura intima femminile del XIX secolo)
10.55 Discussion
11.10 Break

11.40 ALEXANDRA SMITH, University of Edinburgh
An elegy for oneself? Joseph Brodsky’s essay “In a Room and a Half”
(1985)
as a realm of memory
12.05 IL’JA KUKULIN, Vysšaja Škola Ekonomiki, Moscow
Автобиографические элементы в прозе Павла Улитина и ее европейские и
американские параллели
12.30 Discussion
12.45 Lunch

15.00 Meeting of the editorial board of the journal“AvtobiografiЯ” at
Palazzo Liviano, Aula Diano
20.00 Dinner (at the Restaurant “Zaramella”, Largo Europa, 10 - Padova)

9 MAY 2013
ARCHIVIO ANTICO, PALAZZO DEL BO

9.30 Greetings from the President of the Association of Italian Slavists
MARCELLO GARZANITI (University of Florence)
9.45 Presentation of the website “La rifrazione del sé: forme e generi
autobiografici e memorialistici nella cultura russa del XIX e XX
secolo”.
CLAUDIA CRIVELLER and ANDREA GULLOTTA
10.30 Break

First session
"Memories, reconstructions, inventions"
Chair OLEG KLING

11.00 FRANCESCA LAZZARIN, University of Padua
Беллетризованные мемуары или мемуарная беллетристика? К вопросу о
«гибридных» жанрах в русской прозе 20-30-х гг
11.25 RAFFAELLA VASSENA, University of Milan
Петербург как «общественное зрелище» в дневниках и мемуарах об Эпохе
Великих Реформ
11.50 MASSIMO TRIA, University “Ca’ Foscari” of Venice
L’immagine di Praga nei testi autobiografici degli intellettuali russi:
alcuni casi rappresentativi del periodo interbellico
12.15 Discussion
12.30 Lunch

Second Sessione
"Memory, words, images"
Chair JURIJ ZARECKIJ

14.30 ALEKSEJ CHOLIKOV, State University of Moscow
Трансформация памяти о писателе на пересечении словесного и визуального
пространств
14.55 MARINA BALINA, Wesleyan Illinois University
Childhood as Contested Space: Negotiating Past in Contemporary Russian
Life-Writing
15.20 Discussion
15.30 Break

16.00 OLEG KLING, State University of Moscow
Автобиографизм Андрея Белого: пять измерений
16.50 MARIA LEVINA-PARKER, University Sorbonne of Paris
Andrey Bely and his Serial Autobiography
16.25 CLAUDIA CRIVELLER, University of Padua
Линия жизни – линия творчества.Автобиографические маски Андрея Белого
17.15 Discussion and concluding remarks


-- 
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From e.gapova at GMAIL.COM  Fri May  3 15:54:21 2013
From: e.gapova at GMAIL.COM (Elena Gapova)
Date: Fri, 3 May 2013 11:54:21 -0400
Subject: Question re TLS
Message-ID: <FRI.3.MAY.2013.115421.0400.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.UA.EDU>

Dear colleagues,

I've been trying to get access to a certain  book review  published April
26, 2013 in TLS (The Times Lit. Suppl.). The university library (which is
subscribed to TLS) has the paper copy published on that date, and the
electronic one will be available in probably a month. I need an electronic
version. Is it just "our library", or do electronic copies really become
available to the subscribers after a delay? That's seems impossible.
Any help with hijacking the review will be appreciated.

Elena Gapova

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From gsafran at STANFORD.EDU  Fri May  3 17:30:10 2013
From: gsafran at STANFORD.EDU (Gabriella Safran)
Date: Fri, 3 May 2013 10:30:10 -0700
Subject: Memorial for Joe Frank at Stanford on May 20
Message-ID: <FRI.3.MAY.2013.103010.0700.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.UA.EDU>

Dear Colleagues,
On Monday, May 20, the family and colleagues of Joseph Frank, emeritus
professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Stanford University, will
hold a memorial service.  It will begin at 4:00 PM in Levinthal Hall in
Stanford's Humanities Center ( 474 Santa Teresa St, Stanford, CA 94305;
http://shc.stanford.edu/about/contact-us/ ). We invite Joe's students,
friends, and colleagues and all those who miss him and wish to gather to
remember his life and work, which touched so many of us over several
generations.

If you have questions, please contact Denys Roberts at denysr at stanford.edu.

A second memorial, more accessible for those on the East Coast, will be
held at Princeton University in October.

take care,
Gabriella Safran


-- 
Gabriella Safran
Eva Chernov Lokey Professor in Jewish Studies
Director, Slavic Languages and Literatures
Chair, Division of Literatures, Cultures, and Languages
Stanford University
Stanford, CA 94305-2006

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From mkatz at MIDDLEBURY.EDU  Fri May  3 18:00:20 2013
From: mkatz at MIDDLEBURY.EDU (Katz, Michael R.)
Date: Fri, 3 May 2013 18:00:20 +0000
Subject: Question re TLS
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Elena:

You could always scan the paper copy of the review.

Michael Katz
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Subject: [SEELANGS] Question re TLS

Dear colleagues,

I've been trying to get access to a certain  book review  published April 26, 2013 in TLS (The Times Lit. Suppl.). The university library (which is subscribed to TLS) has the paper copy published on that date, and the electronic one will be available in probably a month. I need an electronic version. Is it just "our library", or do electronic copies really become available to the subscribers after a delay? That's seems impossible.
Any help with hijacking the review will be appreciated.

Elena Gapova
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From e.gapova at GMAIL.COM  Fri May  3 17:59:44 2013
From: e.gapova at GMAIL.COM (Elena Gapova)
Date: Fri, 3 May 2013 13:59:44 -0400
Subject: Question re TLS cancelled
Message-ID: <FRI.3.MAY.2013.135944.0400.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.UA.EDU>

Dear colleagues,

the book review has been successfully hijacked. Thanks to all who tried to
help.
e.g.

2013/5/3 Elena Gapova <e.gapova at gmail.com>

> Dear colleagues,
>
> I've been trying to get access to a certain  book review  published April
> 26, 2013 in TLS (The Times Lit. Suppl.). The university library (which is
> subscribed to TLS) has the paper copy published on that date, and the
> electronic one will be available in probably a month. I need an electronic
> version. Is it just "our library", or do electronic copies really become
> available to the subscribers after a delay? That's seems impossible.
> Any help with hijacking the review will be appreciated.
>
> Elena Gapova
>

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From masako_fidler at BROWN.EDU  Fri May  3 22:27:45 2013
From: masako_fidler at BROWN.EDU (Fidler, Masako Ueda)
Date: Fri, 3 May 2013 18:27:45 -0400
Subject: Email to David Short
Message-ID: <FRI.3.MAY.2013.182745.0400.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.UA.EDU>

Dear SEELANgers,
if you know the email address of Prof. David Short, please let me know off
list.
thank you,
Mako


Mako Fidler
Brown U

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From thysentinel at HOTMAIL.COM  Sat May  4 14:33:31 2013
From: thysentinel at HOTMAIL.COM (Sentinel76 Astrakhan)
Date: Sat, 4 May 2013 14:33:31 +0000
Subject: "Vysotsky in English" in Boston
In-Reply-To: <0145E7A9-83C4-4CC7-A0D0-524C331D6D16@american.edu>
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A bit of shameless self-promotion:

===============

Dear Russian culture lovers in Boston!

"Vysotsky in English" project is returning to Boston after 4 years.  I would like to cordially invite you all to my show.


Friday, May 17, 9 pm
The Russian Lounge, 386 Market St, Brighton, MA
http://therussianlounge.com/

My shows are a tribute to one of the greatest Russian poets of the 20th Century, entertaining / educational events.  I have successfully performed at Stanford, MIT, Carnegie-Mellon, and lots of other places.  It would be awesome if you could attend!

Vadim Astrakhan
www.vvinenglish.com
 		 	   		  
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From rifkin at TCNJ.EDU  Sun May  5 16:06:07 2013
From: rifkin at TCNJ.EDU (Benjamin Rifkin)
Date: Sun, 5 May 2013 12:06:07 -0400
Subject: Russian Acts of Kindness
Message-ID: <SUN.5.MAY.2013.120607.0400.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.UA.EDU>

Dear SEELANGers:

In the context of all the negative stories about Russia, there is this:

http://kottke.org/13/05/tender-moments-caught-on-russian-dash-cams

With best wishes to all,

Ben Rifkin
The College of New Jersey


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From paulbg at PBG-TRANSLATIONS.COM  Sun May  5 20:21:39 2013
From: paulbg at PBG-TRANSLATIONS.COM (Paul B. Gallagher)
Date: Sun, 5 May 2013 16:21:39 -0400
Subject: Convert this?
Message-ID: <SUN.5.MAY.2013.162139.0400.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.UA.EDU>

Can anyone decipher the following Cyrillic text? I've tried every 
encoding I can think of, and all I get is various forms of gibberish:

Original Unicode -- Поздравляю!
Viewed as Western -- Поздравляю!
Viewed as Windows 1251 -- Поздравляю!

Thanks much.

-- 
War doesn't determine who's right, just who's left.
--
Paul B. Gallagher
pbg translations, inc.
"Russian Translations That Read Like Originals"
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From zielinski at GMX.CH  Sun May  5 20:35:51 2013
From: zielinski at GMX.CH (Jan Zielinski)
Date: Sun, 5 May 2013 22:35:51 +0200
Subject: Convert this?
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W dniu 2013-05-05 22:21, Paul B. Gallagher pisze:
> Can anyone decipher the following Cyrillic text? I've tried every 
> encoding I can think of, and all I get is various forms of gibberish:
>
> Original Unicode -- Поздравляю!
> Viewed as Western -- Поздравляю!
> Viewed as Windows 1251 -- Поздравляю!
>
> Thanks much.
>
Isn't it simply


  Поздравляю?



Jan Zielinski




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From paulbg at PBG-TRANSLATIONS.COM  Sun May  5 20:46:43 2013
From: paulbg at PBG-TRANSLATIONS.COM (Paul B. Gallagher)
Date: Sun, 5 May 2013 16:46:43 -0400
Subject: Convert this?
In-Reply-To: <5186C2A7.8050801@gmx.ch>
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Jan Zielinski wrote:
> W dniu 2013-05-05 22:21, Paul B. Gallagher pisze:
>> Can anyone decipher the following Cyrillic text? I've tried every
>> encoding I can think of, and all I get is various forms of gibberish:
>>
>> Original Unicode -- Поздравляю!
>> Viewed as Western -- Поздравляю!
>> Viewed as Windows 1251 -- Поздравляю!
>>
>> Thanks much.
>>
> Isn't it simply
>
>
>   Поздравляю?

Makes perfect sense, but I couldn't figure out how to get there.

Thanks to you and to Tom Dolack, who offered the same solution off-list.

-- 
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From katyaites at GMAIL.COM  Sun May  5 21:03:00 2013
From: katyaites at GMAIL.COM (Katya Ites)
Date: Sun, 5 May 2013 17:03:00 -0400
Subject: Russian Acts of Kindness
In-Reply-To: <B6324451-AE2E-4F8B-B39D-1DE9E2F8227C@tcnj.edu>
Message-ID: <SUN.5.MAY.2013.170300.0400.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.UA.EDU>

Thank you, Ben, for sharing :)

Katya I.
UMass-Amherst


2013/5/5 Benjamin Rifkin <rifkin at tcnj.edu>

> Dear SEELANGers:
>
> In the context of all the negative stories about Russia, there is this:
>
> http://kottke.org/13/05/tender-moments-caught-on-russian-dash-cams
>
> With best wishes to all,
>
> Ben Rifkin
> The College of New Jersey
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From townsend at PRINCETON.EDU  Sun May  5 21:20:01 2013
From: townsend at PRINCETON.EDU (Charles Townsend)
Date: Sun, 5 May 2013 17:20:01 -0400
Subject: Russian Acts of Kindness
In-Reply-To: <CAPPmrezkQLn1JOZwM-E00F=hzuMcOjJjeP0Bhj2PqzaxAfU75A@mail.gmail.com>
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We always knew there were lots of kind Russians, and it's such a great country in so many ways.  But that benighted entity has become the Soviet Union again, with its constant repressions, suppressions, threats and the obstacles to humane policy it throws up.  It's really sad.  We're left with their marvelous language.

Charlie Townsend
On May 5, 2013, at 5:03 PM, Katya Ites wrote:

> Thank you, Ben, for sharing :)
> 
> Katya I.
> UMass-Amherst
> 
> 
> 2013/5/5 Benjamin Rifkin <rifkin at tcnj.edu>
> Dear SEELANGers:
> 
> In the context of all the negative stories about Russia, there is this:
> 
> http://kottke.org/13/05/tender-moments-caught-on-russian-dash-cams
> 
> With best wishes to all,
> 
> Ben Rifkin
> The College of New Jersey
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From grylkova at UFL.EDU  Sun May  5 21:30:26 2013
From: grylkova at UFL.EDU (Rylkova,Galina S)
Date: Sun, 5 May 2013 17:30:26 -0400
Subject: Russian Acts of Kindness
In-Reply-To: <17E55DA4-4CF6-493E-A674-4F0773A89B5E@princeton.edu>
Message-ID: <SUN.5.MAY.2013.173026.0400.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.UA.EDU>

  

With all due respect, I find such statements condescending and
ill-informed. I watch several Russian programs and read Russian news on
a daily basis and can say that Russian people enjoy the same amount of
freedom (freedom of speech and expression) as any Americans do in the
United States. I would actually say that the variety of opinions that
one can find in Russian newspapers and on Russian political shows would
be very hard to match here. 

Sincerely, 

Galina Rylkova 

On Sun, 5
May 2013 17:20:01 -0400, Charles Townsend wrote: 

> We always knew
there were lots of kind Russians, and it's such a great country in so
many ways. But that benighted entity has become the Soviet Union again,
with its constant repressions, suppressions, threats and the obstacles
to humane policy it throws up. It's really sad. We're left with their
marvelous language. 
> Charlie Townsend
> 
> On May 5, 2013, at 5:03 PM,
Katya Ites wrote: 
> 
>> Thank you, Ben, for sharing :)
>> 
>> Katya I.
UMass-Amherst 
>> 
>> 2013/5/5 Benjamin Rifkin 
>> 
>>> Dear SEELANGers:

>>> In the context of all the negative stories about Russia, there is
this: 
>>>
http://kottke.org/13/05/tender-moments-caught-on-russian-dash-cams [1]

>>> With best wishes to all, 
>>> Ben Rifkin 
>>> The College of New
Jersey
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256 Dauer Hall
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Florida
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From Wwdslovene at AOL.COM  Sun May  5 21:46:11 2013
From: Wwdslovene at AOL.COM (William Derbyshire)
Date: Sun, 5 May 2013 17:46:11 -0400
Subject: Convert this?
Message-ID: <SUN.5.MAY.2013.174611.0400.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.UA.EDU>

Hello Paul,
I tried Russian,and got nonsense, then I tried Serbian. and bingo! If it  
does not 
work for you, get back to me.
Bill Derbyshire
 
 
In a message dated 5/5/2013 2:23:11 P.M. Mountain Daylight Time,  
paulbg at PBG-TRANSLATIONS.COM writes:

Can  anyone decipher the following Cyrillic text? I've tried every 
encoding I  can think of, and all I get is various forms of gibberish:

Original  Unicode -- Поздравляю!
Viewed as Western --  Поздравляю!
Viewed as Windows 1251 -- РџР ѕР·РґСЂР°РІР»СЏСЋ!

Thanks much.

-- 
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--
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From krutsala at OU.EDU  Sun May  5 21:49:33 2013
From: krutsala at OU.EDU (Rutsala, Kirsten M.)
Date: Sun, 5 May 2013 21:49:33 +0000
Subject: Russian Acts of Kindness
In-Reply-To: <d58a7e8b5ce03fbc567346011163da07@ufl.edu>
Message-ID: <SUN.5.MAY.2013.214933.0000.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.UA.EDU>

The most recent Press Freedom Index produced by Reporters Without Borders places Russia 148th out of 179 countries, and its position has fallen six points from last year.  The United States is ranked at 32.  For those of us who study Russia and the Russian media, this should come as no surprise.  I don't think it is at all accurate to suggest that freedom of speech and expression in Russia and the U.S. are in any way comparable (though the U.S. might want to take some pointers from Finland, which ranks #1 in the Press Freedom Index).



http://en.rsf.org/press-freedom-index-2013,1054.html



Kirsten Rutsala
Assistant Professor of Russian
Department of Modern Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics
University of Oklahoma
206 Kaufman Hall
780 Van Vleet Oval
Norman, OK 73019
(405) 325-1393
________________________________
From: SEELANGS: Slavic & East European Languages and Literatures list [SEELANGS at LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of Rylkova,Galina S [grylkova at UFL.EDU]
Sent: Sunday, May 05, 2013 4:30 PM
To: SEELANGS at LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] Russian Acts of Kindness


With all due respect, I find such statements condescending and ill-informed. I watch several Russian programs and read Russian news on a daily basis and can say that Russian people enjoy the same amount of freedom (freedom of speech and expression) as any Americans do in the United States. I would actually say that the variety of opinions that one can find in Russian newspapers and on Russian political shows would be very hard to match here.

Sincerely,

Galina Rylkova

On Sun, 5 May 2013 17:20:01 -0400, Charles Townsend wrote:

We always knew there were lots of kind Russians, and it's such a great country in so many ways.  But that benighted entity has become the Soviet Union again, with its constant repressions, suppressions, threats and the obstacles to humane policy it throws up.  It's really sad.  We're left with their marvelous language.
Charlie Townsend
On May 5, 2013, at 5:03 PM, Katya Ites wrote:

Thank you, Ben, for sharing :)

Katya I.
UMass-Amherst


2013/5/5 Benjamin Rifkin <rifkin at tcnj.edu<mailto:rifkin at tcnj.edu>>
Dear SEELANGers:
In the context of all the negative stories about Russia, there is this:
http://kottke.org/13/05/tender-moments-caught-on-russian-dash-cams
With best wishes to all,
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The College of New Jersey
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From grylkova at UFL.EDU  Sun May  5 22:53:43 2013
From: grylkova at UFL.EDU (Rylkova,Galina S)
Date: Sun, 5 May 2013 18:53:43 -0400
Subject: Russian Acts of Kindness
In-Reply-To: <33B99AB8CE248B4998946E4BD551339C55542187@it-athena.sooner.net.ou.edu>
Message-ID: <SUN.5.MAY.2013.185343.0400.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.UA.EDU>

  

I am not surprised that Russia was ranked 148th out of 179th. What
is surprising that the organization with the annual reported budget of
4,000.000 British pounds (roughly the income of 4-5 CNN reporters) can
be trusted to produce comprehensive and valid research in 200 countries.


On Sun, 5 May 2013 21:49:33 +0000, Rutsala, Kirsten M. wrote: 

> The
most recent Press Freedom Index produced by Reporters Without Borders
places Russia 148th out of 179 countries, and its position has fallen
six points from last year. The United States is ranked at 32. For those
of us who study Russia and the Russian media, this should come as no
surprise. I don't think it is at all accurate to suggest that freedom of
speech and expression in Russia and the U.S. are in any way comparable
(though the U.S. might want to take some pointers from Finland, which
ranks #1 in the Press Freedom Index). 
> 
>
http://en.rsf.org/press-freedom-index-2013,1054.html [6] 
> 
> Kirsten
Rutsala 
> Assistant Professor of Russian 
> Department of Modern
Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics 
> University of Oklahoma 
> 206
Kaufman Hall 
> 780 Van Vleet Oval 
> Norman, OK 73019 
> (405) 325-1393

> 
> -------------------------
> 
> FROM: SEELANGS: Slavic & East
European Languages and Literatures list [SEELANGS at LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on
behalf of Rylkova,Galina S [grylkova at UFL.EDU]
> SENT: Sunday, May 05,
2013 4:30 PM
> TO: SEELANGS at LISTSERV.UA.EDU
> SUBJECT: Re: [SEELANGS]
Russian Acts of Kindness
> 
> With all due respect, I find such
statements condescending and ill-informed. I watch several Russian
programs and read Russian news on a daily basis and can say that Russian
people enjoy the same amount of freedom (freedom of speech and
expression) as any Americans do in the United States. I would actually
say that the variety of opinions that one can find in Russian newspapers
and on Russian political shows would be very hard to match here. 
> 
>
Sincerely, 
> 
> Galina Rylkova 
> 
> On Sun, 5 May 2013 17:20:01 -0400,
Charles Townsend wrote: 
> 
>> We always knew there were lots of kind
Russians, and it's such a great country in so many ways. But that
benighted entity has become the Soviet Union again, with its constant
repressions, suppressions, threats and the obstacles to humane policy it
throws up. It's really sad. We're left with their marvelous language.

>> Charlie Townsend
>> 
>> On May 5, 2013, at 5:03 PM, Katya Ites
wrote: 
>> 
>>> Thank you, Ben, for sharing :)
>>> 
>>> Katya I.
UMass-Amherst 
>>> 
>>> 2013/5/5 Benjamin Rifkin 
>>> 
>>>> Dear
SEELANGers: 
>>>> In the context of all the negative stories about
Russia, there is this: 
>>>>
http://kottke.org/13/05/tender-moments-caught-on-russian-dash-cams [1]

>>>> With best wishes to all, 
>>>> Ben Rifkin 
>>>> The College of New
Jersey
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>
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From moss at MIDDLEBURY.EDU  Mon May  6 00:32:26 2013
From: moss at MIDDLEBURY.EDU (Moss, Kevin M.)
Date: Mon, 6 May 2013 00:32:26 +0000
Subject: Russian Acts of Kindness
In-Reply-To: <d58a7e8b5ce03fbc567346011163da07@ufl.edu>
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On May 5, 2013, at 5:30 PM, Rylkova,Galina S wrote:

Russian people enjoy the same amount of freedom (freedom of speech and expression) as any Americans do in the United States.

Seriously?

That must be why they are introducing a law to fine anyone who suggests that gay relationships are equivalent to straight relationships.

Because Lord knows Americans could never do that.

I'm sorry, but if anything is ill-informed it is this statement. I have heard of many people, especially in the LGBT community AND JOURNALISTS who are seriously talking about leaving because of the new laws. Most of MY Russian friends and relatives are appalled at the current situation, but perhaps we know completely different circles? Let's see what happens tomorrow.

There WAS variety in the 90s, but that was already ending in Putin's first term, and now it is simply absurd to talk about variety, unless you mean independent internet media.

I am increasingly reluctant to return. I was more eager to visit in the days of Brezhnev than I am with the new anti-American and anti-gay policies of Putin.

Kevin Moss
Middlebury College

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From grylkova at UFL.EDU  Mon May  6 01:17:20 2013
From: grylkova at UFL.EDU (Rylkova,Galina S)
Date: Sun, 5 May 2013 21:17:20 -0400
Subject: Russian Acts of Kindness
In-Reply-To: <751DB158-55FD-4EEE-BEBE-9C9BF769089A@middlebury.edu>
Message-ID: <SUN.5.MAY.2013.211720.0400.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.UA.EDU>

Dear Professor Moss,

I was not comparing my circle of friends to any other circle of 
friends. I was offering my own informed opinion of someone who is fluent 
in both languages (who can watch political debates, etc. for hours 
non-stop in both languages), who lived in both countries for extended 
periods of time and who also has analytical skills to analyze and 
compare. And as someone who watches CNN, PBS, FOX and MSNBC coverages on 
a daily basis (unlike most Russians that I know) I can competently 
compare the variety being offered in both countries.

Yes, most of my Russian friends and relatives also believe that they 
don't have freedom of speech and many other freedoms. But they don't 
read American newspapers or watch American TV.

I also don't believe that current discussions of abortion and gay and 
lesbian rights in America are very reassuring.

Galina Rylkova

On Mon, 6 May 2013 00:32:26 +0000, Moss, Kevin M. wrote:
> On May 5, 2013, at 5:30 PM, Rylkova,Galina S wrote:
>
> Russian people enjoy the same amount of freedom (freedom of speech
> and expression) as any Americans do in the United States.
>
> Seriously?
>
> That must be why they are introducing a law to fine anyone who
> suggests that gay relationships are equivalent to straight
> relationships.
>
> Because Lord knows Americans could never do that.
>
> I'm sorry, but if anything is ill-informed it is this statement. I
> have heard of many people, especially in the LGBT community AND
> JOURNALISTS who are seriously talking about leaving because of the 
> new
> laws. Most of MY Russian friends and relatives are appalled at the
> current situation, but perhaps we know completely different circles?
> Let's see what happens tomorrow.
>
> There WAS variety in the 90s, but that was already ending in Putin's
> first term, and now it is simply absurd to talk about variety, unless
> you mean independent internet media.
>
> I am increasingly reluctant to return. I was more eager to visit in
> the days of Brezhnev than I am with the new anti-American and 
> anti-gay
> policies of Putin.
>
> Kevin Moss
> Middlebury College
>
> 
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From paulbg at PBG-TRANSLATIONS.COM  Mon May  6 01:57:05 2013
From: paulbg at PBG-TRANSLATIONS.COM (Paul B. Gallagher)
Date: Sun, 5 May 2013 21:57:05 -0400
Subject: Russian Acts of Kindness
In-Reply-To: <cd90f43aaea8f1906c9a93ef30f603d4@ufl.edu>
Message-ID: <SUN.5.MAY.2013.215705.0400.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.UA.EDU>

Galina S Rylkova wrote:

> Dear Professor Moss,
>
> I was not comparing my circle of friends to any other circle of friends.
> I was offering my own informed opinion of someone who is fluent in both
> languages (who can watch political debates, etc. for hours non-stop in
> both languages), who lived in both countries for extended periods of
> time and who also has analytical skills to analyze and compare. And as
> someone who watches CNN, PBS, FOX and MSNBC coverages on a daily basis
> (unlike most Russians that I know) I can competently compare the variety
> being offered in both countries.
>
> Yes, most of my Russian friends and relatives also believe that they
> don't have freedom of speech and many other freedoms. But they don't
> read American newspapers or watch American TV.
>
> I also don't believe that current discussions of abortion and gay and
> lesbian rights in America are very reassuring.

Freedom of speech is largely about the consequences (or lack thereof) of 
expressing nonstandard, unconventional, unapproved views. If you lose 
your job, are evicted from your apartment, are beaten by nameless thugs, 
are jailed on trumped-up charges, etc., these consequences demonstrate a 
lack of freedom and have a chilling effect on public debate. Although 
our country is imperfect in this area, most people feel free to speak 
out without risking consequences like these. It hasn't always been so, 
and for one obvious example, servicemen in our armed forces only 
recently gained the right to admit they are gay or lesbian without 
risking a dishonorable discharge. But preposterous slanders such as the 
accusations that President Obama is a Muslim born in Kenya are routinely 
publicized without fear. Can you imagine V.V. Putin putting up with that 
for more than a New York minute?

I haven't been to Russia lately, so I can't speak authoritatively, but 
from the outside it appears that those who publicly espouse views 
contrary to those of the Putin cabal are taking very serious risks, in 
some cases putting their lives in danger. We have seen too many blatant 
cases in the media to think otherwise.

If you would make the case that Russian freedom of speech is equal to 
ours, you must also show that dissidents survive and can even prosper, 
and that the government aggressively prosecutes cases of harassment and 
intimidation so as to ensure a wide range of fully voiced opinions. 
Where are your equivalents to Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, Michele 
Bachmann, Ron Paul, and so forth? (or under Bush II: Paul Krugman, 
Rachel Maddow, Katrina van den Heuvel, etc.)

To the contrary, media reports indicate that the Putin government is 
responsible for most cases of harassment and intimidation, and actively 
works to repress dissenting views. It may be true that the lawn has some 
weeds, but the mower comes through once a week and ensures that none can 
grow big and strong enough to compete with the party in power.

-- 
War doesn't determine who's right, just who's left.
--
Paul B. Gallagher
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From idshevelenko at WISC.EDU  Mon May  6 01:58:32 2013
From: idshevelenko at WISC.EDU (Irina Shevelenko)
Date: Sun, 5 May 2013 20:58:32 -0500
Subject: Russian Acts of Kindness
In-Reply-To: <cd90f43aaea8f1906c9a93ef30f603d4@ufl.edu>
Message-ID: <SUN.5.MAY.2013.205832.0500.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.UA.EDU>

The only media in Russia that do not have freedom of speech are those which
happen to have an audience in the millions, i.e., all major TV channels.
And, yes, it means there is no freedom of speech and information in Russia.
What is here to debate? Whom are we kidding?

Irina Shevelenko
(also quite fluent in both languages)

-----Original Message-----
From: SEELANGS: Slavic & East European Languages and Literatures list
[mailto:SEELANGS at LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Rylkova,Galina S
Sent: Sunday, May 05, 2013 8:17 PM
To: SEELANGS at LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] Russian Acts of Kindness

Dear Professor Moss,

I was not comparing my circle of friends to any other circle of friends. I
was offering my own informed opinion of someone who is fluent in both
languages (who can watch political debates, etc. for hours non-stop in both
languages), who lived in both countries for extended periods of time and who
also has analytical skills to analyze and compare. And as someone who
watches CNN, PBS, FOX and MSNBC coverages on a daily basis (unlike most
Russians that I know) I can competently compare the variety being offered in
both countries.

Yes, most of my Russian friends and relatives also believe that they don't
have freedom of speech and many other freedoms. But they don't read American
newspapers or watch American TV.

I also don't believe that current discussions of abortion and gay and
lesbian rights in America are very reassuring.

Galina Rylkova

On Mon, 6 May 2013 00:32:26 +0000, Moss, Kevin M. wrote:
> On May 5, 2013, at 5:30 PM, Rylkova,Galina S wrote:
>
> Russian people enjoy the same amount of freedom (freedom of speech and 
> expression) as any Americans do in the United States.
>
> Seriously?
>
> That must be why they are introducing a law to fine anyone who 
> suggests that gay relationships are equivalent to straight 
> relationships.
>
> Because Lord knows Americans could never do that.
>
> I'm sorry, but if anything is ill-informed it is this statement. I 
> have heard of many people, especially in the LGBT community AND 
> JOURNALISTS who are seriously talking about leaving because of the new 
> laws. Most of MY Russian friends and relatives are appalled at the 
> current situation, but perhaps we know completely different circles?
> Let's see what happens tomorrow.
>
> There WAS variety in the 90s, but that was already ending in Putin's 
> first term, and now it is simply absurd to talk about variety, unless 
> you mean independent internet media.
>
> I am increasingly reluctant to return. I was more eager to visit in 
> the days of Brezhnev than I am with the new anti-American and anti-gay 
> policies of Putin.
>
> Kevin Moss
> Middlebury College
>
> 
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From aisrael at AMERICAN.EDU  Mon May  6 01:00:08 2013
From: aisrael at AMERICAN.EDU (Alina Israeli)
Date: Sun, 5 May 2013 21:00:08 -0400
Subject: Russian Acts of Kindness
In-Reply-To: <a1b9f2b08a4473569bc8a8e4a0ba28dc@ufl.edu>
Message-ID: <SUN.5.MAY.2013.210008.0400.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.UA.EDU>

Those were probably ten year old figures, because

The combined income of Reporters Without Borders and Reporters Without  
Borders International in 2008 was €4,874,443 and expenditure  
€5,003,261, making a deficit of €128,818. (http://en.rsf.org/income-and-expenditure-07-09-2009,34401 
)

Now the comparison with CNN salaries makes no sense at all. It's like  
saying, "How can you produce a decent film with a budget smaller than  
Angelina Jolie's pay per picture?"

For example "Fargo" was made with a budget of $7 million, while Angie  
gets $15 million per picture (or something like that).


On May 5, 2013, at 6:53 PM, Rylkova,Galina S wrote:

> I am not surprised that Russia was ranked 148th out of 179th. What  
> is surprising that the organization with the annual reported budget  
> of 4,000.000 British pounds (roughly the income of 4-5 CNN  
> reporters) can be trusted to produce comprehensive and valid  
> research in 200 countries.
>

Alina Israeli
Associate Professor of Russian
WLC, American University
4400 Massachusetts Ave.
Washington DC 20016
(202) 885-2387 	fax (202) 885-1076
aisrael at american.edu






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From colkitto at ROGERS.COM  Mon May  6 03:24:43 2013
From: colkitto at ROGERS.COM (Robert Orr)
Date: Sun, 5 May 2013 23:24:43 -0400
Subject: Russian Acts of Kindness
In-Reply-To: <003f01ce49fd$368f5640$a3ae02c0$@wisc.edu>
Message-ID: <SUN.5.MAY.2013.232443.0400.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.UA.EDU>

Does anyone recall chapter one of Maurice Baring's Landmarks in Russian
Literature (written, I think between the Russo-Japanese War and the
Revolution), where he describes ordinary Russians as "the most naturally
kind people in Europe."  I've had quite a few glimpses of that over the
years.




-----Original Message-----
From: SEELANGS: Slavic & East European Languages and Literatures list
[mailto:SEELANGS at LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Irina Shevelenko
Sent: Sunday, May 05, 2013 9:59 PM
To: SEELANGS at LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] Russian Acts of Kindness

The only media in Russia that do not have freedom of speech are those which
happen to have an audience in the millions, i.e., all major TV channels.
And, yes, it means there is no freedom of speech and information in Russia.
What is here to debate? Whom are we kidding?

Irina Shevelenko
(also quite fluent in both languages)

-----Original Message-----
From: SEELANGS: Slavic & East European Languages and Literatures list
[mailto:SEELANGS at LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Rylkova,Galina S
Sent: Sunday, May 05, 2013 8:17 PM
To: SEELANGS at LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] Russian Acts of Kindness

Dear Professor Moss,

I was not comparing my circle of friends to any other circle of friends. I
was offering my own informed opinion of someone who is fluent in both
languages (who can watch political debates, etc. for hours non-stop in both
languages), who lived in both countries for extended periods of time and who
also has analytical skills to analyze and compare. And as someone who
watches CNN, PBS, FOX and MSNBC coverages on a daily basis (unlike most
Russians that I know) I can competently compare the variety being offered in
both countries.

Yes, most of my Russian friends and relatives also believe that they don't
have freedom of speech and many other freedoms. But they don't read American
newspapers or watch American TV.

I also don't believe that current discussions of abortion and gay and
lesbian rights in America are very reassuring.

Galina Rylkova

On Mon, 6 May 2013 00:32:26 +0000, Moss, Kevin M. wrote:
> On May 5, 2013, at 5:30 PM, Rylkova,Galina S wrote:
>
> Russian people enjoy the same amount of freedom (freedom of speech and
> expression) as any Americans do in the United States.
>
> Seriously?
>
> That must be why they are introducing a law to fine anyone who 
> suggests that gay relationships are equivalent to straight 
> relationships.
>
> Because Lord knows Americans could never do that.
>
> I'm sorry, but if anything is ill-informed it is this statement. I 
> have heard of many people, especially in the LGBT community AND 
> JOURNALISTS who are seriously talking about leaving because of the new 
> laws. Most of MY Russian friends and relatives are appalled at the 
> current situation, but perhaps we know completely different circles?
> Let's see what happens tomorrow.
>
> There WAS variety in the 90s, but that was already ending in Putin's 
> first term, and now it is simply absurd to talk about variety, unless 
> you mean independent internet media.
>
> I am increasingly reluctant to return. I was more eager to visit in 
> the days of Brezhnev than I am with the new anti-American and anti-gay 
> policies of Putin.
>
> Kevin Moss
> Middlebury College
>
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From thysentinel at HOTMAIL.COM  Mon May  6 03:03:49 2013
From: thysentinel at HOTMAIL.COM (Sentinel76 Astrakhan)
Date: Mon, 6 May 2013 03:03:49 +0000
Subject: Russian Acts of Kindness
In-Reply-To: <51870DF1.8040500@pbg-translations.com>
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> Date: Sun, 5 May 2013 21:57:05 -0400
> From: paulbg at PBG-TRANSLATIONS.COM
> Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] Russian Acts of Kindness
> To: SEELANGS at LISTSERV.UA.EDU
> 
> But preposterous slanders such as the 
> accusations that President Obama is a Muslim born in Kenya are routinely 
> publicized without fear. Can you imagine V.V. Putin putting up with that 
> for more than a New York minute?
> 
> I haven't been to Russia lately, so I can't speak authoritatively, but 
> from the outside it appears that those who publicly espouse views 
> contrary to those of the Putin cabal are taking very serious risks, in 
> some cases putting their lives in danger. We have seen too many blatant 
> cases in the media to think otherwise.
> 
> If you would make the case that Russian freedom of speech is equal to 
> ours, you must also show that dissidents survive and can even prosper, 

I will play devil's advocate here for a moment.

1.  Dmitry Bykov, who's criticism of Putin is nothing short of personal attacks, seems to be doing pretty well, enjoying a wide audience and lucrative media deals.  More power to him.

2.  The coverage of the 08/08/08 War was much more diverse in Russia than in American media sources.

That said, on average, Russia enjoys far lesser freedom of speech than USA.  Anybody who says otherwise is delusional and needs to consider purchasing a one way ticket from JFK Airport.

Vadim
 		 	   		  
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From sarahhurst at ALASKA.NET  Mon May  6 08:13:04 2013
From: sarahhurst at ALASKA.NET (Sarah Hurst)
Date: Mon, 6 May 2013 00:13:04 -0800
Subject: Russian Acts of Kindness
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I just visited St. Petersburg for 3 weeks in March. I found it very
depressing. People said the law was completely arbitrary. They were afraid
of being fined or jailed for arbitrary reasons. I heard about someone who
had a business that was closed down because she had participated in some
opposition event. Someone told me that the laws are written so that they're
impossible to comply with, so that bureaucrats can make money from bribes;
people find more and more inventive ways to get around them, then the laws
get more and more ridiculous. NGOs are being fined for being "foreign
agents". If people can't form social organizations independent of and
critical of the government, I don't see how society can develop and
flourish. State-controlled TV broadcasts propaganda. There are opposition
media outlets, but I was told that the government tolerates them just
because they appeal to such a limited sector of society, and they aren't a
threat, but they make it seem like the press is free. 

 

Sarah Hurst

 


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From sarahhurst at ALASKA.NET  Mon May  6 08:19:07 2013
From: sarahhurst at ALASKA.NET (Sarah Hurst)
Date: Mon, 6 May 2013 00:19:07 -0800
Subject: Russian Acts of Kindness
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Also, I want to add, people seemed out of touch with the rest of the world,
due to the absence of information. I spoke to several Arctic experts who
assured me that global warming wasn't man-made, but was just a natural cycle
caused most likely by increased solar activity. I know there are lots of
global warming skeptics in the U.S., but these are usually ordinary people
rather than scientists. There were only a few scientists who focused on the
Arctic; it wasn't seen as a very promising area for research as the Russian
government makes it very difficult for people to go there. I also heard a
lot of negative talk about gays (I was told homosexuality was a disease),
and ethnic minorities. 


Sarah Hurst

 


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From kcf19 at DIAL.PIPEX.COM  Mon May  6 09:01:28 2013
From: kcf19 at DIAL.PIPEX.COM (Robert Chandler)
Date: Mon, 6 May 2013 10:01:28 +0100
Subject: Voznesensky and Goya
Message-ID: <MON.6.MAY.2013.100128.0100.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.UA.EDU>

Dear all,

Aged about 16, during my first years of studying Russian, I used to be transfixed by a recording of Voznesensky reading his famous early poem about Goya.  Perhaps for this reason, I was struck by the following story, which he told to Olga Carlisle (it is in Poets on Street Corners, Random House, 1968. p. 316) when she was visiting Moscow in 1967: ‘I remember the last war fairly vividly, although I was quite small when it started.  My mother and I were refugees in a small village in the Ural mountains.  My father was in Leningrad.  We thought that he had died.  We were hungry; near the village wolves howled at night.  One day the door opened and my father came in.  He was unshaven and wore an old black overcoat.  He brought us a tin of canned meat and a book about Goya; he was on leave and had come to visit us briefly.  Since that day – I was nine – Goya has become a symbol for me, the symbol of war.’

But …...  How many people got "leave" from Leningrad in 1942???  Can this story be true, or was Voznesensky just romancing?

Any thoughts, anyone?

All the best,

Robert


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From grylkova at UFL.EDU  Mon May  6 11:40:39 2013
From: grylkova at UFL.EDU (Rylkova,Galina S)
Date: Mon, 6 May 2013 07:40:39 -0400
Subject: Russian Acts of Kindness
In-Reply-To: <51870DF1.8040500@pbg-translations.com>
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Dear Paul Gallagher,

Russian people (and intellectual in particular) have been traditionally 
infinitely more critical of any political regime than their American 
counterparts. In 2011-2012 Putin was accused of every possible failure 
and crimes. For the most extreme summary see Masha Gessen's "The Man 
Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin" (2012). This book 
was highly advertised through various blogs and was on sale in one 
Moscow bookstore. Do you think that Putin (who had a meeting with Masha 
Gessen after this book's publication) was unaware of its content?

Russian journalists have been working extremely hard to uncover the 
truth and  often show extreme/unprecedented courage. Yet they think that 
what they do is a mere fraction of what their American counterparts are 
supposedly doing here. This phenomenon of living up to some non-existing 
standards is explored (albeit very gently) in Todorovsky's film 
"Stiliagi" (The Totalitarian Rock).

Yes, it is possible to match your list with Rush Limbaugh and other 
critically-minded people.

You can meet such people at any Channel 1 (state, pro-Putin channel) 
debates that are hosted by Vladimir Solov'ev twice a week on Thursdays 
and Sundays: Vladimir Zhirinovsky, Aleksandr Prokhanov, Mikhail Veller, 
Irina Khakamada, Leonid Gozman, Alexandr Pochinok, Dmitrii Gudkov, 
Dmitrii Bykov, Aleksandr Dugin, to name but a few.

Marianna Maksimovskaia ("Nedelia s Mariannoi Maksimovskoi") can be your 
match for Rachel Maddow.

Then there are Aleksei Venediktov ("Ekho Moskvy"), Yuliia Latynina 
("Ekho Moskvy"), Kseniia Sobchak, Valeria Novodvorskaia, Vladimir 
Pozner, Leonid Parfenov, and others who are not particularly kind to 
Putin in their shows, broadcasts, articles, and blogs.

Anatolii Vasserman and Yegor Kholmogorov (show "Reaktsia Vassermana") 
can likely serve as the Russian equivalent of Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, 
and Michele Buchmann


On Sun, 5 May 2013 21:57:05 -0400, Paul B. Gallagher wrote:

> Freedom of speech is largely about the consequences (or lack thereof)
> of expressing nonstandard, unconventional, unapproved views. If you
> lose your job, are evicted from your apartment, are beaten by 
> nameless
> thugs, are jailed on trumped-up charges, etc., these consequences
> demonstrate a lack of freedom and have a chilling effect on public
> debate. Although our country is imperfect in this area, most people
> feel free to speak out without risking consequences like these. It
> hasn't always been so, and for one obvious example, servicemen in our
> armed forces only recently gained the right to admit they are gay or
> lesbian without risking a dishonorable discharge. But preposterous
> slanders such as the accusations that President Obama is a Muslim 
> born
> in Kenya are routinely publicized without fear. Can you imagine V.V.
> Putin putting up with that for more than a New York minute?
>
> I haven't been to Russia lately, so I can't speak authoritatively,
> but from the outside it appears that those who publicly espouse views
> contrary to those of the Putin cabal are taking very serious risks, 
> in
> some cases putting their lives in danger. We have seen too many
> blatant cases in the media to think otherwise.
>
> If you would make the case that Russian freedom of speech is equal to
> ours, you must also show that dissidents survive and can even 
> prosper,
> and that the government aggressively prosecutes cases of harassment
> and intimidation so as to ensure a wide range of fully voiced
> opinions. Where are your equivalents to Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck,
> Michele Bachmann, Ron Paul, and so forth? (or under Bush II: Paul
> Krugman, Rachel Maddow, Katrina van den Heuvel, etc.)
>
> To the contrary, media reports indicate that the Putin government is
> responsible for most cases of harassment and intimidation, and
> actively works to repress dissenting views. It may be true that the
> lawn has some weeds, but the mower comes through once a week and
> ensures that none can grow big and strong enough to compete with the
> party in power.

-- 
Galina S. Rylkova
Associate Professor of Russian
Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
256 Dauer Hall
University of Florida
Gainesville, FL 32611
USA
grylkova at ufl.edu
http://www.languages.ufl.edu/russian

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From colkitto at ROGERS.COM  Mon May  6 12:26:37 2013
From: colkitto at ROGERS.COM (Robert Orr)
Date: Mon, 6 May 2013 08:26:37 -0400
Subject: Russian Acts of Kindness
In-Reply-To: <002a01ce4a32$6130a040$2391e0c0$@alaska.net>
Message-ID: <MON.6.MAY.2013.082637.0400.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.UA.EDU>

"I spoke to several Arctic experts who assured me that global warming wasn't
man-made, but was just a natural cycle caused most likely by increased solar
activity."

 

Russia comes out ahead of the US here in that case.  

 

"There WAS variety in the 90s, but that was already ending in Putin's first
term, and now it is simply absurd to talk about 

variety, unless you mean independent internet media.

 

There's also the fact, paradoxically, that nowadays it's sometimes easier to
be "politically incorrect"  in Russia than in the US.

'

 

 


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From aisrael at AMERICAN.EDU  Mon May  6 15:24:16 2013
From: aisrael at AMERICAN.EDU (Alina Israeli)
Date: Mon, 6 May 2013 11:24:16 -0400
Subject: Russian Acts of Kindness
In-Reply-To: <7f3d7bb4cb2190dc81923f09bc49f5cc@ufl.edu>
Message-ID: <MON.6.MAY.2013.112416.0400.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.UA.EDU>

Galina,

Have you asked yourself why in the country where there is such a great  
freedom of speech (Russia) there is such a long list of killed  
journalists: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_journalists_killed_in_Russia 
  ?

It does not include those who were beaten up and harassed. Just  
recently Beketov died http://expert.ru/2013/04/8/himkinskaya- 
tragediya/; he was beaten up in 2008. Attacks on journalists are a  
daily business: http://www.cpj.org/europe/russia/

After Oleg Kashin was attacked http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulIYVd_0W2U 
  Medvedev promised to get to the bottom of it. He is still getting to  
the bottom of it and will be till the second coming.

There was also a wonderful story when Bastrykin threatened a  
journalist of Novaya Gazeta to the point that he had to go into  
hiding: http://www.gazeta.ru/comments/2012/06/13_e_4624421.shtml

Bastrykin was forced to apologize after weeks of denying the incident.

These are the measures of freedom of speech, not what we can say in  
our kitchen with impunity, although for 40 years that was also  
dangerous.

And we are not even talking about the repressions against the  
manifestation which occurred a year ago today. The number of people on  
trial promises to be very impressive.


On the subject of ecology, the attacks on the concept of global  
warming come from the right and from the left (Latynina). The debate  
reminds me the one about the roundness of the Earth. Not everybody is  
good at calculations, Latynina makes sometimes ridiculous blunders due  
to her inability to understand science, but together with the  
officialdom they got the issue covered.

Meantime Russia is ahead (впереди планеты всей) on  
some forms of pollution http://www.geotochka.ru/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=274:---&catid=34&Itemid=119

But I believe the thinking is: It's going to get warmer, we are going  
to grow bananas in Russia.
Here's the projected temperature change: http://www.global-climate-change.ru/index.php/ru/climate-rf/78-about-climate-rf/184-climate-change-ggo
Not enough for bananas or even oranges, but permafrost is already  
melting.


On May 6, 2013, at 7:40 AM, Rylkova,Galina S wrote:

> Dear Paul Gallagher,
>
> Russian people (and intellectual in particular) have been  
> traditionally infinitely more critical of any political regime than  
> their American counterparts. In 2011-2012 Putin was accused of every  
> possible failure and crimes. For the most extreme summary see Masha  
> Gessen's "The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir  
> Putin" (2012). This book was highly advertised through various blogs  
> and was on sale in one Moscow bookstore. Do you think that Putin  
> (who had a meeting with Masha Gessen after this book's publication)  
> was unaware of its content?
>
> Russian journalists have been working extremely hard to uncover the  
> truth and  often show extreme/unprecedented courage. Yet they think  
> that what they do is a mere fraction of what their American  
> counterparts are supposedly doing here. This phenomenon of living up  
> to some non-existing standards is explored (albeit very gently) in  
> Todorovsky's film "Stiliagi" (The Totalitarian Rock).
>

Alina Israeli
Associate Professor of Russian
WLC, American University
4400 Massachusetts Ave.
Washington DC 20016
(202) 885-2387 	fax (202) 885-1076
aisrael at american.edu






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From Yevgeniy.Slivkin at DU.EDU  Mon May  6 15:31:25 2013
From: Yevgeniy.Slivkin at DU.EDU (Yevgeniy Slivkin)
Date: Mon, 6 May 2013 15:31:25 +0000
Subject: Russian Acts of Kindness
In-Reply-To: <DC28D64A-E720-4D86-8D81-AC75113DE5FB@american.edu>
Message-ID: <MON.6.MAY.2013.153125.0000.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.UA.EDU>

Dmitry Bykov mentioned by the “devil’s advocate” plays in the Russian media the role of the court jester. Smart kings in the Middle Ages understood that their jesters’ “attacks” on them just made them look more powerful and splendid.
Actually, to compare the freedom of the media in the USA and Russia is like comparing the two physically different processes of flying and swimming (perhaps even in a swamp). The resistance of the environment and the necessary muscle efforts are so different that the comparison makes no sense.
Here anyone who subscribes to the Direct TV package which includes Russian TV (RT) broadcasting daily in English can see and hear many pleasantries about American life and critical views of American politics (voiced by discontented American academics and independent journalists). Similar American TV broadcasting in Russia will be possible probably only at the end of the twenty-first century. That is not to say that academic and journalistic freedom in the US is absolute. Yet the means to limit this freedom are significantly less dirty and more subtle in this country than in Russia.

Yevgeny Slivkin
Department of Languages and Literatures
University of Denver

________________________________
From: SEELANGS: Slavic & East European Languages and Literatures list [SEELANGS at LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of Alina Israeli [aisrael at AMERICAN.EDU]
Sent: Monday, May 06, 2013 9:24 AM
To: SEELANGS at LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] Russian Acts of Kindness

Galina,

Have you asked yourself why in the country where there is such a great freedom of speech (Russia) there is such a long list of killed journalists: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_journalists_killed_in_Russia ?

It does not include those who were beaten up and harassed. Just recently Beketov died http://expert.ru/2013/04/8/himkinskaya-tragediya/; he was beaten up in 2008. Attacks on journalists are a daily business: http://www.cpj.org/europe/russia/

After Oleg Kashin was attacked http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulIYVd_0W2U Medvedev promised to get to the bottom of it. He is still getting to the bottom of it and will be till the second coming.

There was also a wonderful story when Bastrykin threatened a journalist of Novaya Gazeta to the point that he had to go into hiding: http://www.gazeta.ru/comments/2012/06/13_e_4624421.shtml

Bastrykin was forced to apologize after weeks of denying the incident.

These are the measures of freedom of speech, not what we can say in our kitchen with impunity, although for 40 years that was also dangerous.

And we are not even talking about the repressions against the manifestation which occurred a year ago today. The number of people on trial promises to be very impressive.


On the subject of ecology, the attacks on the concept of global warming come from the right and from the left (Latynina). The debate reminds me the one about the roundness of the Earth. Not everybody is good at calculations, Latynina makes sometimes ridiculous blunders due to her inability to understand science, but together with the officialdom they got the issue covered.

Meantime Russia is ahead (впереди планеты всей) on some forms of pollution http://www.geotochka.ru/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=274:---&catid=34&Itemid=119

But I believe the thinking is: It's going to get warmer, we are going to grow bananas in Russia.
Here's the projected temperature change: http://www.global-climate-change.ru/index.php/ru/climate-rf/78-about-climate-rf/184-climate-change-ggo
Not enough for bananas or even oranges, but permafrost is already melting.


On May 6, 2013, at 7:40 AM, Rylkova,Galina S wrote:

Dear Paul Gallagher,

Russian people (and intellectual in particular) have been traditionally infinitely more critical of any political regime than their American counterparts. In 2011-2012 Putin was accused of every possible failure and crimes. For the most extreme summary see Masha Gessen's "The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin" (2012). This book was highly advertised through various blogs and was on sale in one Moscow bookstore. Do you think that Putin (who had a meeting with Masha Gessen after this book's publication) was unaware of its content?

Russian journalists have been working extremely hard to uncover the truth and  often show extreme/unprecedented courage. Yet they think that what they do is a mere fraction of what their American counterparts are supposedly doing here. This phenomenon of living up to some non-existing standards is explored (albeit very gently) in Todorovsky's film "Stiliagi" (The Totalitarian Rock).


Alina Israeli
Associate Professor of Russian
WLC, American University
4400 Massachusetts Ave.
Washington DC 20016
(202) 885-2387  fax (202) 885-1076
aisrael at american.edu<mailto:aisrael at american.edu>





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From grylkova at UFL.EDU  Mon May  6 15:42:10 2013
From: grylkova at UFL.EDU (Rylkova,Galina S)
Date: Mon, 6 May 2013 11:42:10 -0400
Subject: Russian Acts of Kindness
In-Reply-To: <DC28D64A-E720-4D86-8D81-AC75113DE5FB@american.edu>
Message-ID: <MON.6.MAY.2013.114210.0400.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.UA.EDU>

  

Alina, 

I am not suggesting that Russia is perfect. Far from that.
My initial post was in response to calling it "that benighted entity
[that] has become the Soviet Union again .... We're left with their
marvelous language." I do believe that even on state Russian channels
the variety of views/interpretations of the same event would correspond
if not surpass the variety of views expressed here. 

Galina 

On Mon, 6
May 2013 11:24:16 -0400, Alina Israeli wrote: 

> Galina, 
> Have you
asked yourself why in the country where there is such a great freedom of
speech (Russia) there is such a long list of killed journalists:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_journalists_killed_in_Russia [1] ?

> It does not include those who were beaten up and harassed. Just
recently Beketov died http://expert.ru/2013/04/8/himkinskaya-tragediya/
[2]; he was beaten up in 2008. Attacks on journalists are a daily
business: http://www.cpj.org/europe/russia/ [3] 
> After Oleg Kashin was
attacked http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulIYVd_0W2U [4] Medvedev
promised to get to the bottom of it. He is still getting to the bottom
of it and will be till the second coming. 
> There was also a wonderful
story when Bastrykin threatened a journalist of Novaya Gazeta to the
point that he had to go into hiding:
http://www.gazeta.ru/comments/2012/06/13_e_4624421.shtml [5] 
>
Bastrykin was forced to apologize after weeks of denying the incident.

> These are the measures of freedom of speech, not what we can say in
our kitchen with impunity, although for 40 years that was also
dangerous. 
> And we are not even talking about the repressions against
the manifestation which occurred a year ago TODAY. The number of people
on trial promises to be very impressive. 
> On the subject of ecology,
the attacks on the concept of global warming come from the right and
from the left (Latynina). The debate reminds me the one about the
roundness of the Earth. Not everybody is good at calculations, Latynina
makes sometimes ridiculous blunders due to her inability to understand
science, but together with the officialdom they got the issue covered.

> Meantime Russia is ahead (впереди планеты всей) on
some forms of pollution
http://www.geotochka.ru/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=274:---&catid=34&Itemid=119
[6] 
> But I believe the thinking is: It's going to get warmer, we are
going to grow bananas in Russia. 
> Here's the projected temperature
change:
http://www.global-climate-change.ru/index.php/ru/climate-rf/78-about-climate-rf/184-climate-change-ggo
[7] 
> Not enough for bananas or even oranges, but permafrost is
already melting. 
> 
> On May 6, 2013, at 7:40 AM, Rylkova,Galina S
wrote: 
> 
>> Dear Paul Gallagher,
>> 
>> Russian people (and
intellectual in particular) have been traditionally infinitely more
critical of any political regime than their American counterparts. In
2011-2012 Putin was accused of every possible failure and crimes. For
the most extreme summary see Masha Gessen's "The Man Without a Face: The
Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin" (2012). This book was highly advertised
through various blogs and was on sale in one Moscow bookstore. Do you
think that Putin (who had a meeting with Masha Gessen after this book's
publication) was unaware of its content?
>> 
>> Russian journalists have
been working extremely hard to uncover the truth and often show
extreme/unprecedented courage. Yet they think that what they do is a
mere fraction of what their American counterparts are supposedly doing
here. This phenomenon of living up to some non-existing standards is
explored (albeit very gently) in Todorovsky's film "Stiliagi" (The
Totalitarian Rock).
> 
> Alina Israeli 
> Associate Professor of Russian

> WLC, American University 
> 4400 Massachusetts Ave. 
> Washington DC
20016 
> (202) 885-2387 fax (202) 885-1076 
> aisrael at american.edu [8]

> 
>
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Links:
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[1]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_journalists_killed_in_Russia
[2]
http://expert.ru/2013/04/8/himkinskaya-tragediya/
[3]
http://www.cpj.org/europe/russia/
[4]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulIYVd_0W2U
[5]
http://www.gazeta.ru/comments/2012/06/13_e_4624421.shtml
[6]
http://www.geotochka.ru/index.php?option=com_content|+|amp|+|view=article|+|amp|+|id=274:---|+|amp|+|catid=34|+|amp|+|Itemid=119
[7]
http://www.global-climate-change.ru/index.php/ru/climate-rf/78-about-climate-rf/184-climate-change-ggo
[8]
mailto:aisrael at american.edu
[9] http://seelangs.home.comcast.net/

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From sarahhurst at ALASKA.NET  Mon May  6 15:56:48 2013
From: sarahhurst at ALASKA.NET (Sarah Hurst)
Date: Mon, 6 May 2013 07:56:48 -0800
Subject: Russian Acts of Kindness
In-Reply-To: <7f3d7bb4cb2190dc81923f09bc49f5cc@ufl.edu>
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Masha Gessen said herself in her book that it was hardly available in Russia (one Moscow bookstore?), and that when she met Putin he was clearly unaware of the content of it and that he just wanted to ask her why she'd resigned from her job writing for a geographical magazine. 

Sarah Hurst

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From svitlana.kobets at UTORONTO.CA  Mon May  6 16:14:08 2013
From: svitlana.kobets at UTORONTO.CA (Svitlana Kobets)
Date: Mon, 6 May 2013 12:14:08 -0400
Subject: Russian Acts of Kindness
In-Reply-To: <DC28D64A-E720-4D86-8D81-AC75113DE5FB@american.edu>
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Dear all,
let me bring in one more illustration of the state of Russia's freedom of speech. Roughly a year ago we all witnessed / followerd the act, arrest and trial of Pussy Riot. On the one hand Russia had a diverse and very interesting coverage of the case. on the other hand the trial was nothing but a show trial, Putin took the 'insult' personally and did not even hide it. Were the defendants, lawyers and media allowed to speak freely? They sure were. Did they stand a chance to get a just trial? Absolutely not. it was  obvious that the fate of the accused was sealed even before the trial. 
What kind of freedom of speech are we talking about?
Svitlana Kobets




On 2013-05-06, at 11:24 AM, Alina Israeli wrote:

> Galina,
> 
> Have you asked yourself why in the country where there is such a great freedom of speech (Russia) there is such a long list of killed journalists: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_journalists_killed_in_Russia ?
> 
> It does not include those who were beaten up and harassed. Just recently Beketov died http://expert.ru/2013/04/8/himkinskaya-tragediya/; he was beaten up in 2008. Attacks on journalists are a daily business: http://www.cpj.org/europe/russia/
> 
> After Oleg Kashin was attacked http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulIYVd_0W2U Medvedev promised to get to the bottom of it. He is still getting to the bottom of it and will be till the second coming.
> 
> There was also a wonderful story when Bastrykin threatened a journalist of Novaya Gazeta to the point that he had to go into hiding: http://www.gazeta.ru/comments/2012/06/13_e_4624421.shtml
> 
> Bastrykin was forced to apologize after weeks of denying the incident. 
> 
> These are the measures of freedom of speech, not what we can say in our kitchen with impunity, although for 40 years that was also dangerous.
> 
> And we are not even talking about the repressions against the manifestation which occurred a year ago today. The number of people on trial promises to be very impressive. 
> 
> 
> On the subject of ecology, the attacks on the concept of global warming come from the right and from the left (Latynina). The debate reminds me the one about the roundness of the Earth. Not everybody is good at calculations, Latynina makes sometimes ridiculous blunders due to her inability to understand science, but together with the officialdom they got the issue covered.
> 
> Meantime Russia is ahead (впереди планеты всей) on some forms of pollution http://www.geotochka.ru/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=274:---&catid=34&Itemid=119
> 
> But I believe the thinking is: It's going to get warmer, we are going to grow bananas in Russia.
> Here's the projected temperature change: http://www.global-climate-change.ru/index.php/ru/climate-rf/78-about-climate-rf/184-climate-change-ggo
> Not enough for bananas or even oranges, but permafrost is already melting.
> 
> 
> On May 6, 2013, at 7:40 AM, Rylkova,Galina S wrote:
> 
>> Dear Paul Gallagher,
>> 
>> Russian people (and intellectual in particular) have been traditionally infinitely more critical of any political regime than their American counterparts. In 2011-2012 Putin was accused of every possible failure and crimes. For the most extreme summary see Masha Gessen's "The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin" (2012). This book was highly advertised through various blogs and was on sale in one Moscow bookstore. Do you think that Putin (who had a meeting with Masha Gessen after this book's publication) was unaware of its content?
>> 
>> Russian journalists have been working extremely hard to uncover the truth and  often show extreme/unprecedented courage. Yet they think that what they do is a mere fraction of what their American counterparts are supposedly doing here. This phenomenon of living up to some non-existing standards is explored (albeit very gently) in Todorovsky's film "Stiliagi" (The Totalitarian Rock).
>> 
> 
> Alina Israeli
> Associate Professor of Russian
> WLC, American University
> 4400 Massachusetts Ave.
> Washington DC 20016
> (202) 885-2387 	fax (202) 885-1076
> aisrael at american.edu
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From krugovoys at YAHOO.COM  Sun May  5 18:08:43 2013
From: krugovoys at YAHOO.COM (Christel)
Date: Sun, 5 May 2013 14:08:43 -0400
Subject: Russian Acts of Kindness
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From votruba+slangs at PITT.EDU  Mon May  6 20:36:22 2013
From: votruba+slangs at PITT.EDU (Martin Votruba)
Date: Mon, 6 May 2013 15:36:22 -0500
Subject: Russian Acts of Kindness
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When we look at the actual rating (less is better), rather than mere ranking, of press freedom in the countries and cultures of interest to SEELANGS (plus the UK and U.S. for comparison):

10.17 Czech R. (compare: 10.24 Germany)
13.11 Poland
13.25 Slovakia
16.89 United Kingdom
18.22 U.S.
20.49 Slovenia
26.59 Serbia
26.61 Croatia (compare: 26.11 Italy)
26.86 Bosnia and Herzegovina
28.58 Bulgaria (compare: 28.46 Greece)
34.27 Macedonia
36.79 Ukraine
43.42 Russia
48.53 Belarus

... there is a detectable regional-cum-historical match and no "Slavic" match. As to the distress expressed by some about Russia's rating, let me note by comparison that when the 2013 ratings were published some time ago, commentaries in Bulgaria, Croatia, and even high-rated Slovakia expressed concern that press freedom should be better in their countries with no suspicions that Reporters without Borders are playing on the American, or any other, team. A few other countries across Europe for good measure: 6.31 Finland (top), 9.94 Switzerland, 20.5 Spain, 21.6 France, 26.09 Hungary.


Martin

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From nushakova at GMAIL.COM  Tue May  7 00:37:02 2013
From: nushakova at GMAIL.COM (Nataliya Ushakova)
Date: Mon, 6 May 2013 19:37:02 -0500
Subject: ACTR Russian Scholar Laureate
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Dear Colleague!

I am writing to remind you that a period for nominating an ACTR Russian Scholar Laureate is now open. If you wish to nominate your best sophomore or junior secondary school Russian student for this award, you may do so until June 15, 2013. 

Your membership in ACTR must be current, but there is no fee for participation in this program. 
A PDF of the brochure and the nomination form can request from the Chair by email.
nushakova at gmail.com

Please send your complete nomination materials to the address below

Nataliya Ushakova, Chair
ACTR Russian Scholar Laureate Award
Staten Island Technical HS
485 Clawson Street,
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From rifkin at TCNJ.EDU  Tue May  7 01:06:24 2013
From: rifkin at TCNJ.EDU (Benjamin Rifkin)
Date: Mon, 6 May 2013 21:06:24 -0400
Subject: Jewish Veterans from Soviet Army
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Dear SEELANGers:

Here's a piece that caught my attention today, in advance of the May 9 celebrations:

http://www.wnct.com/story/22164351/ap-photos-few-know-story-of-jews-in-red-army

Sincerely,

Ben Rifkin
The College of New Jersey


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From aurelijat at YAHOO.COM  Tue May  7 07:27:13 2013
From: aurelijat at YAHOO.COM (Aurelija Tamosiunaite)
Date: Tue, 7 May 2013 02:27:13 -0500
Subject: FYI: New MA program in Sociolinguistics and Multilingualism
Message-ID: <TUE.7.MAY.2013.022713.0500.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.UA.EDU>

Dear SEELANGERS,

maybe it will of interest to your students!

Vytautas Magnus University (Kaunas, Lithuania), Johannes-Gutenberg University (Mainz, Germany), Stockholm University (Sweden), and the University of Tartu (Estonia) are offering a new joint-degree MA program “Sociolinguistics and Multilingualism” (SoMu). 

The program familiarizes students with the general key theories and methods of sociolinguistics (traditional, variationist sociolinguistics, constructivist sociolinguistics, language variation, the dialogic relationship of language use and societal patterns), as well as offers a new and wider perspective and understanding of multilingualism as the parallel use of national, minority and migrant languages alongside one or more international vehicular language(s).

Among the existing MA programs in sociolinguistics this program is different in regard to: 
•	its language focus (students acquire competences in two international vehicular languages as well as at least two lesser-used and taught languages);
•	its geographical focus on the entire Nordic and Baltic-Sea region;
•	its focus on multilingualism in a wide sense (rather than on language policy and planning issues concerning just one European minority population or country);
•	its in-built mobility (studying abroad is compulsory and equally long study periods in three universities in three different countries are required).

Application deadline (for Fall 2013 admission): (both – EU and non-EU students) 30 June, 2013

Admission requirements: Bachelor Degree or equivalent in Humanities or Social Sciences. The Bachelor Degree shall contain at least 30 ECTS in the field of linguistics or philology. Good knowledge of English on the level B2 of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages. Students from non-partner universities might be asked to provide the proof of English language proficiency. 

For more information, please visit http://somu.vdu.lt  or join us on Facebook (look for Sociolinguistics and Multilingualism).

Best regards, 

Aurelija Tamosiunaite

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From colkitto at ROGERS.COM  Tue May  7 12:25:28 2013
From: colkitto at ROGERS.COM (Robert Orr)
Date: Tue, 7 May 2013 08:25:28 -0400
Subject: Russian Acts of Kindness
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Message-ID: <TUE.7.MAY.2013.082528.0400.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.UA.EDU>

Do we see cases of Russian academics staging (semi)public book burnings?

Russia-based readers on the list?

http://wattsupwiththat.com/2013/05/02/san-jose-state-university-meteorology-decides-burning-books-they-dont-agree-with-is-better-than-reading-them/

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From kcf19 at DIAL.PIPEX.COM  Tue May  7 13:21:56 2013
From: kcf19 at DIAL.PIPEX.COM (Robert Chandler)
Date: Tue, 7 May 2013 14:21:56 +0100
Subject: Voznesensky and Goya
Message-ID: <TUE.7.MAY.2013.142156.0100.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.UA.EDU>

Dear all,

Someone has answered my question offline.

The relevant excerpt from AV's autobiography is here
http://www.mosoblpress.ru/mass_media/3/106/item65722/

Как зарождалось это первое и очень раннее стихотворение, поэт рассказал в одной из главок своих воспоминаний, которые вышли под названием «Мне четырнадцать лет». В эвакуации они с мамой Антониной Сергеевной и сестрой Наташей жили, как он пишет, у хорошего хозяина за Уралом. Отец Андрей Николаевич, занимавшийся проектированием электростанций, оказался в блокированном Ленинграде. Говорили, что он ранен. Мать плакала, приходя с работы. «И вдруг отец возвращается - худющий, небритый, в чёрной гимнастёрке и с рюкзаком».
Когда стали «знакомиться» с рюкзаком отца, то оказалось, что отец летел через всю линию фронта ещё и с книгой о художнике Гойе (с репродукциями картин этого испанского живописца из цикла «Бедствия войны» – Г.С.). Я ничего об этом художнике не знал. Но в книге расстреливали партизан, мотались тела повешенных, корчилась война... Всё это связалось в одно страшное имя - Гойя. Гойя - так стонали сирены и бомбы перед нашим отъездом из Москвы, Гойя - так выли волки за деревней, Гойя - так причитала соседка, получившая похоронку, Гойя... Эта музыка памяти записалась в стихи, первые мои стихи».
 
There is nothing here about "leave", which is the bit that made me suspicious.  It seems he was just one of the people who was evacuated.

Thanks to everyone who wrote to me!

Yours, Robert

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From anthony.j.vanchu at NASA.GOV  Tue May  7 15:07:30 2013
From: anthony.j.vanchu at NASA.GOV (Vanchu, Anthony J. (JSC-AH)[TECHTRANS INTERNATIONAL, INC.])
Date: Tue, 7 May 2013 10:07:30 -0500
Subject: Russian Acts of Kindness
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Message-ID: <TUE.7.MAY.2013.100730.0500.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.UA.EDU>

That hardly qualifies as a bona fide book burning, public or semi-public.  It would seem that irony is perhaps often all too easily lost.


-----Original Message-----
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Sent: Tuesday, May 07, 2013 7:25 AM
To: SEELANGS at LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] Russian Acts of Kindness

Do we see cases of Russian academics staging (semi)public book burnings?

Russia-based readers on the list?

http://wattsupwiththat.com/2013/05/02/san-jose-state-university-meteorology-decides-burning-books-they-dont-agree-with-is-better-than-reading-them/

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From pstock at BRANDEIS.EDU  Tue May  7 15:55:28 2013
From: pstock at BRANDEIS.EDU (David Powelstock)
Date: Tue, 7 May 2013 11:55:28 -0400
Subject: Russian Acts of Kindness
In-Reply-To: <4245AC87C05F1747B25D8CC8694FBCE00143A19207AE@NDJSSCC04.ndc.nasa.gov>
Message-ID: <TUE.7.MAY.2013.115528.0400.>

Irony is especially easily lost on those who deliberately ignore it in the
interest of confirming an existing bias.

In this case, we have a couple of private citizens making a stupid joke
about burning a book. Big deal. It is private political speech expressing
intolerance toward someone else's private political speech. One of the
larger questions in all this that tends to get lost is the distinction
between private citizen's intolerance of others' political views (rampant
everywhere) and state intolerance of certain political views. All the
obnoxious and/or censorious blog postings in the world combined do not
amount to a single case of someone being imprisoned or harassed by the
state for expressing anti-government views by means of a
far-from-independent judicial system.

Another point worth making has to do with the practical effectiveness of
free speech. Putin, et al., have learned an important lesson about
"managing" democracy in the information age. The ham-handed suppression of
speech practiced by the Soviets cannot succeed in the new environment. The
new strategy is to allow speech to be free up until it reaches a certain
threshold of influence over the Russian public. At that point the speakers
are persecuted or otherwise defanged. It works as a pressure release valve,
to keep the opposition visible, marginalized, and dissolute. Thus, the
state takes control of the media with the farthest reach--national
television stations--and lets the opposition play around with lesser media.

Finally, one doesn't need to subscribe to any kind of "essentialist" theory
of Russian nationality to accept the fact that the current Russian
government rules by undemocratic means. By way of analogy, think of the age
of robber barons in the US, for example. Perhaps Russia is going through
just such a stage. That's speculative and debatable, of course. But the
broader point is that nations change throughout history. Putinism has just
about run its course, I think. The questions is, what's next?

Cheers,
David

 * * * * * * * * * *
David Powelstock
​

On Tue, May 7, 2013 at 11:07 AM, Vanchu, Anthony J. (JSC-AH)[TECHTRANS
INTERNATIONAL, INC.] <anthony.j.vanchu at nasa.gov> wrote:

> That hardly qualifies as a bona fide book burning, public or semi-public.
>  It would seem that irony is perhaps often all too easily lost.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: SEELANGS: Slavic & East European Languages and Literatures list
> [mailto:SEELANGS at LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Robert Orr
> Sent: Tuesday, May 07, 2013 7:25 AM
> To: SEELANGS at LISTSERV.UA.EDU
> Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] Russian Acts of Kindness
>
> Do we see cases of Russian academics staging (semi)public book burnings?
>
> Russia-based readers on the list?
>
>
> http://wattsupwiththat.com/2013/05/02/san-jose-state-university-meteorology-decides-burning-books-they-dont-agree-with-is-better-than-reading-them/
>
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From wrivers at LANGUAGEPOLICY.ORG  Wed May  8 00:59:45 2013
From: wrivers at LANGUAGEPOLICY.ORG (William Rivers)
Date: Tue, 7 May 2013 20:59:45 -0400
Subject: iPad in Russia
Message-ID: <TUE.7.MAY.2013.205945.0400.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.UA.EDU>

Looking for advice on using my iPad's cellular capabilities in Russia - has
anyone traveled and purchased a SIM? any other advice? please reply offline.

William P. Rivers, Ph.D.
Executive Director
Joint National Committee for Languages – National Council for Language and
International Studies
Chair, ASTM F43 Committee on Language Services and Products
4646 40th St., NW, Suite 310
Washington, DC  20016
(202) 966-8477 (o)
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From eroby at FRIENDSBALT.ORG  Wed May  8 02:22:19 2013
From: eroby at FRIENDSBALT.ORG (Roby, Lee)
Date: Tue, 7 May 2013 22:22:19 -0400
Subject: iPad in Russia
Message-ID: <TUE.7.MAY.2013.222219.0400.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.UA.EDU>

Please respond either online or to me as well.  
 
Thanks,
 
Lee Roby
Friends School of Baltimore
eroby at friendsbalt.org

________________________________

From: SEELANGS: Slavic & East European Languages and Literatures list on behalf of William Rivers
Sent: Tue 5/7/2013 8:59 PM
To: SEELANGS at LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Subject: [SEELANGS] iPad in Russia


Looking for advice on using my iPad's cellular capabilities in Russia - has anyone traveled and purchased a SIM? any other advice? please reply offline.

William P. Rivers, Ph.D.
Executive Director
Joint National Committee for Languages - National Council for Language and International Studies
Chair, ASTM F43 Committee on Language Services and Products
4646 40th St., NW, Suite 310
Washington, DC  20016
(202) 966-8477 (o)
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From jwilson at SRAS.ORG  Wed May  8 19:31:40 2013
From: jwilson at SRAS.ORG (Josh Wilson)
Date: Wed, 8 May 2013 23:31:40 +0400
Subject: iPad in Russia
In-Reply-To: <7E772013A54B1A4BB3F6981F0CEE8DB50B637E6D@post2003.friendsbalt.org>
Message-ID: <WED.8.MAY.2013.233140.0400.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.UA.EDU>

It, of course, depends on where you'll be. Assuming you'll be in Moscow, St.
Pete, or another major city, you'll have no problems. You can get a
mini-chip (so long as your iPad can have the chip replaced) at any number of
locations, slip it in, set it up, and you're good to go. 

My iPad was bought in the States and works fine in Moscow and St. Pete with
Beeline. Outside Moscow, at the Dacha, it doesn't so well, but my
sister-in-law's, which uses a high-traffic packages from MegaFon works as
well as any 3G I've seen in the states. I would guess that if you get very
far out of civilization, though, you'll be having some trouble... 

We also have fairly extensive information about taking electronics to Russia
on our site: http://www.sras.org/guides_packing_for_russia . You might be
interested in checking it out. 

Best, 


Josh Wilson
Assistant Director
The School of Russian and Asian Studies
Editor in Chief
Vestnik, The Journal of Russian and Asian Studies
SRAS.org 
jwilson at sras.org



-----Original Message-----
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Sent: Wednesday, May 08, 2013 6:22 AM
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Please respond either online or to me as well.  
 
Thanks,
 
Lee Roby
Friends School of Baltimore
eroby at friendsbalt.org

________________________________

From: SEELANGS: Slavic & East European Languages and Literatures list on
behalf of William Rivers
Sent: Tue 5/7/2013 8:59 PM
To: SEELANGS at LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Subject: [SEELANGS] iPad in Russia


Looking for advice on using my iPad's cellular capabilities in Russia - has
anyone traveled and purchased a SIM? any other advice? please reply offline.

William P. Rivers, Ph.D.
Executive Director
Joint National Committee for Languages - National Council for Language and
International Studies Chair, ASTM F43 Committee on Language Services and
Products
4646 40th St., NW, Suite 310
Washington, DC  20016
(202) 966-8477 (o)
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From kcf19 at DIAL.PIPEX.COM  Wed May  8 20:33:24 2013
From: kcf19 at DIAL.PIPEX.COM (Robert Chandler)
Date: Wed, 8 May 2013 21:33:24 +0100
Subject: Lecture by Joseph Troncale about the artist Felix Lembersky -
 7.30 pm, 14 May - Pushkin House, Bloomsbury
Message-ID: <WED.8.MAY.2013.213324.0100.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.UA.EDU>

Please forward this to anyone you know in London who is at all interested in painting!

http://www.pushkinhouse.org/single-event/events/art-that-stops-the-mind-and-moves-the-heart

Felix Lembersky was probably the finest artist working in Russia in the 1950s and 1960s.  For several different reasons, his work was more or less forgotten for about 40 years.  The current exhibition at Pushkin House is the first time his work has been shown in London.  Joseph Troncale, who has curated previous exhibitions of his work in the USA, writes:
 
In the world where commerce and art all to often conspire to merely titillate, distract, or shock the viewer with a kind of maddening paced one-ups-man-ship, it is important and deeply heartening that work such as Felix Lembersky’s takes its place in the heart of London. Lembersky’s work was not about making a choice to conform or not to conform as some kind of grand gesture, but it was the most personal compulsion within the artist to define culture as a value in and of itself beyond ideologies, both for himself and for all of humankind.  A painting or a drawing was always much more to Lembersky than something simply to be intellectually engaged. He expected his viewers to go beyond themselves, beyond their mental frameworks of reference, to stand outside of the ordinary and to feel the extraordinary in a kind of ecstasy. In such a way we participate with him in drawing back the curtain, as Avgust Lanin wrote, on a reality that is not yet understood and, in this case, defies understanding and can only be felt. «You have to plumb the depths» of Lembersky's paintings, continues Lanin, «to arrive at such a response to his work. The artist demands a response from his viewers that is equal in intensity and depth to his own.» It seems that, after all, «pure feeling,» as Malevich intimated, is the only force capable of penetrating Lembersky's work.


Professor Joseph Troncale is co-director of the Russian Studies Program at the University of Richmond and is the chair of the Department of Modern Literatures and Cultures at the University of Richmond for 2013-2014. He currently teaches Russian language courses in addition to seminars on Russian literature, Russian painting, Russian cinema, and the history of Russian cultural and intellectual development.  He has also written widely in each of these areas.





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From AnemoneA at NEWSCHOOL.EDU  Wed May  8 22:03:39 2013
From: AnemoneA at NEWSCHOOL.EDU (Anthony Anemone)
Date: Wed, 8 May 2013 18:03:39 -0400
Subject: Nabokov question
Message-ID: <WED.8.MAY.2013.180339.0400.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.UA.EDU>

Does anyone know of a poem (or possibly a short story) by VN called "The
Fight"?

Thanks,

Tony

-- 
Tony Anemone
Associate Professor
The New School
72 Fifth Ave, 702
New York, NY 10011

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From AnemoneA at NEWSCHOOL.EDU  Wed May  8 23:26:52 2013
From: AnemoneA at NEWSCHOOL.EDU (Anthony Anemone)
Date: Wed, 8 May 2013 19:26:52 -0400
Subject: VN question
Message-ID: <WED.8.MAY.2013.192652.0400.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.UA.EDU>

Thanks to all who responded so quickly!

Tony

-- 
Tony Anemone
Associate Professor
The New School
72 Fifth Ave, 702
New York, NY 10011

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From colkitto at ROGERS.COM  Thu May  9 05:52:37 2013
From: colkitto at ROGERS.COM (Robert Orr)
Date: Thu, 9 May 2013 01:52:37 -0400
Subject: Russian Acts of Kindness
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> That hardly qualifies as a bona fide book burning, public or semi-public.  It would seem that irony is perhaps often all too easily lost.

Indeed.  But the attitudes expressed by "climate change/global warming" advocates in Western countries come close to "book-burning" too often.  And the incident did take place at a STATE university.   "Climate change/global warming" advocates have become the "anti-Galileo", and the fact that Russian scientists are mostly sceptical is a huge point in favour of the latter.

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From paulr at RUSSIANLIFE.COM  Thu May  9 14:51:01 2013
From: paulr at RUSSIANLIFE.COM (Paul Richardson)
Date: Thu, 9 May 2013 10:51:01 -0400
Subject: Russian Life is looking for a few willing reviewers!
Message-ID: <THU.9.MAY.2013.105101.0400.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.UA.EDU>

Russian Life Books has just released Peter Aleshkovsky's novel, "Stargorod: A Novel in Many Voices". It is Aleshkovsky's third novel to be published in English (after "Skunk: A Life" and "Fish: A History of One Migration"). 

http://bit.ly/stargorodnovel

Peter Aleshkovsky has written a dozen novels, but it was the humor and realism of "Stargorod" (the first part of this two-part work, set in 1990; the second part takes place two decades later, in 2010, and is also included in this translation) that initially brought him national fame in Russia. His style is decidedly in the realistic tradition, but that does not stop him from investigating the mystical and miraculous in everyday life. His works are richly descriptive and evocative of the uniquely Russian worldview, while at the same time tapping into universal human emotions and experiences. He has three times been short-listed for the Russian Booker Prize.

We are seeking some knowledgeable and willing E-BOOK reviewers of "Stargorod", to help spread the word with reviews on Amazon and elsewhere. Interested reviewers should contact the publisher PRIVATELY by email, and if selected, will receive an authorization code for a free download of the ebook.

Thank you,

Paul Richardson
Publisher
paulr at russianlife.com
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From 0000list at GMAIL.COM  Thu May  9 16:19:20 2013
From: 0000list at GMAIL.COM (Peter Ruki)
Date: Thu, 9 May 2013 18:19:20 +0200
Subject: iPad in Russia
In-Reply-To: <CAO6zxvLwq-KB9CFc+KZBNwSLcSOHqcZxBqHUFzKzeM+OgR2E0Q@mail.gmail.com>
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Unfortunately civilians are not allowed to use Apple technology at this
moment.
-->
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2013/04/05/russia_war_on_internet_freedom

I absolutely do not recommend to bring your gadgets with you unless you
don't want to prolong your stay for some years in Siberia.

))
Am 2013-05-08 02:59, schrieb William Rivers:
> Looking for advice on using my iPad's cellular capabilities in Russia - has
> anyone traveled and purchased a SIM? any other advice? please reply offline.
>
> William P. Rivers, Ph.D.
> Executive Director
> Joint National Committee for Languages – National Council for Language and
> International Studies
> Chair, ASTM F43 Committee on Language Services and Products
> 4646 40th St., NW, Suite 310
> Washington, DC  20016
> (202) 966-8477 (o)
> (240) 529-7684 (c)
>
>


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From rayfin3 at KU.EDU  Thu May  9 17:20:33 2013
From: rayfin3 at KU.EDU (Finch III, Raymond Charles)
Date: Thu, 9 May 2013 17:20:33 +0000
Subject: iPad in Russia
In-Reply-To: <518BCC88.9080308@gmail.com>
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Hasn’t quite reached this point yet, and hopefully never will.  As Mr. Soldatov points out, there is a growing belief among some in the Kremlin that the Internet and all these social media platforms are western-sponsored technological Trojan horses designed to weaken the unity of the Russian state.  Besides government monitoring programs of the Internet, there are moves to create an autarchic, Russian-controlled model, where presumably the state could feed its citizen with only healthy material.  For those who understand Russian, watch the presentation at:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aiwqdyUng9E
________________________________
From: SEELANGS: Slavic & East European Languages and Literatures list [SEELANGS at LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of Peter Ruki [0000list at GMAIL.COM]
Sent: Thursday, May 09, 2013 11:19 AM
To: SEELANGS at LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] iPad in Russia

Unfortunately civilians are not allowed to use Apple technology at this moment.
--> http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2013/04/05/russia_war_on_internet_freedom

I absolutely do not recommend to bring your gadgets with you unless you don't want to prolong your stay for some years in Siberia.

))
Am 2013-05-08 02:59, schrieb William Rivers:

Looking for advice on using my iPad's cellular capabilities in Russia - has
anyone traveled and purchased a SIM? any other advice? please reply offline.

William P. Rivers, Ph.D.
Executive Director
Joint National Committee for Languages – National Council for Language and
International Studies
Chair, ASTM F43 Committee on Language Services and Products
4646 40th St., NW, Suite 310
Washington, DC  20016
(202) 966-8477 (o)
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From robinso at STOLAF.EDU  Thu May  9 17:26:33 2013
From: robinso at STOLAF.EDU (Marc Robinson)
Date: Thu, 9 May 2013 21:26:33 +0400
Subject: iPad in Russia
In-Reply-To: <85A1AC3368AE8C4784C139E39CF6BCA9236A7EB3@EXCH10-MBX-05.home.ku.edu>
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Being here in Moscow for a few months, I must say I'm amazed at the number
of ipads and Apple products around - much different than even five years
ago.

Marc Robinson
St. Olaf College


On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 9:20 PM, Finch III, Raymond Charles
<rayfin3 at ku.edu>wrote:

>  Hasn’t quite reached this point yet, and hopefully never will.  As Mr.
> Soldatov points out, there is a growing belief among some in the Kremlin
> that the Internet and all these social media platforms are
> western-sponsored technological Trojan horses designed to weaken the unity
> of the Russian state.  Besides government monitoring programs of the
> Internet, there are moves to create an autarchic, Russian-controlled model,
> where presumably the state could feed its citizen with only healthy
> material.  For those who understand Russian, watch the presentation at:
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aiwqdyUng9E
>  ------------------------------
> *From:* SEELANGS: Slavic & East European Languages and Literatures list [
> SEELANGS at LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of Peter Ruki [0000list at GMAIL.COM]
> *Sent:* Thursday, May 09, 2013 11:19 AM
>
> *To:* SEELANGS at LISTSERV.UA.EDU
> *Subject:* Re: [SEELANGS] iPad in Russia
>
>   Unfortunately civilians are not allowed to use Apple technology at this
> moment.
> -->
> http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2013/04/05/russia_war_on_internet_freedom
>
> I absolutely do not recommend to bring your gadgets with you unless you
> don't want to prolong your stay for some years in Siberia.
>
> ))
> Am 2013-05-08 02:59, schrieb William Rivers:
>
> Looking for advice on using my iPad's cellular capabilities in Russia - has
> anyone traveled and purchased a SIM? any other advice? please reply offline.
>
> William P. Rivers, Ph.D.
> Executive Director
> Joint National Committee for Languages – National Council for Language and
> International Studies
> Chair, ASTM F43 Committee on Language Services and Products
> 4646 40th St., NW, Suite 310
> Washington, DC  20016(202) 966-8477 (o)(240) 529-7684 (c)
>
>
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From paulr at RUSSIANLIFE.COM  Thu May  9 17:58:21 2013
From: paulr at RUSSIANLIFE.COM (Paul Richardson)
Date: Thu, 9 May 2013 13:58:21 -0400
Subject: iPads
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I brought iPhone on trip last fall. Walked into Megafon in Moscow and got very good plan that covered Moscow area for just a few bucks a day. Popped in their SIM and it worked great. Only problem was that put me on "roaming" status when I went to StP, which was far more expensive for calling and data. But still not crippling. If you can take the time to sort out the plans, it's good way to go. Certainly far less expensive than buying a local dumb phone, which is what I had done in past.

iPads were everywhere. As ubiquitous as here. Maybe more so.

Paul R
Russian Life
 
On May 9, 2013, at 1:28 PM, SEELANGS automatic digest system wrote:

>> Looking for advice on using my iPad's cellular capabilities in Russia - has
>> anyone traveled and purchased a SIM? any other advice? please reply offline.
>> 
>> William P. Rivers, Ph.D.
>> Executive Director
>> Joint National Committee for Languages – National Council for Language and
>> International Studies
>> Chair, ASTM F43 Committee on Language Services and Products
>> 4646 40th St., NW, Suite 310
>> Washington, DC  20016
>> (202) 966-8477 (o)
>> (240) 529-7684 (c)
>> 
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From kudichster at GMAIL.COM  Thu May  9 20:16:54 2013
From: kudichster at GMAIL.COM (Konstantin Kudinov)
Date: Thu, 9 May 2013 13:16:54 -0700
Subject: iPad in Russia
In-Reply-To: <518BCC88.9080308@gmail.com>
Message-ID: <THU.9.MAY.2013.131654.0700.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.UA.EDU>

Peter is right,
I would never take an iPad to Russia with me. The use of apple technologies
is strictly prohibited and officially illegal without special permission
signed by Russian President Vladimir Putin. The punishment for that is
severe and depends on device model you have (de iure) and mostly on local
judge's mood (de facto). In general adult people go to prison-like
settlements in Siberia for 1-2 years, depending on iPad/iPhone/iPod model
the person has.


The reason for that is simple: russian authorities just want to be unique
people using apple products in the country. Actually, ban on apple devices
caused all protest events on Moscow streets and across the country. Pussy
Riot band members are in prison because they were using unauthorized apple
devices to capture video of their performance in the Cathedral of Christ
the Saviour. Another well-known example is the death of Alexander
Litvinenko. While western media were kept focusing on espionage assassin
paranoid versions everyone in Russia knows real reason. Litvinenko managed
to get newer model of iPhone than Putin had at that time. So he was
lectured for his insolent behavior.



Of course there are some ways to bring in an apple technology. If you still
have enough courage to do so, I would recommend the simplest one: when you
go through passport control in the airport just have 2-3 hundred dollars in
cash in your passport and say “I have a present for you”. Usually, it helps
to get rid of hard-bitten attention of kgb agents.


Best of luck


Konstantin Kudinov


2013/5/9 Peter Ruki <0000list at gmail.com>

>  Unfortunately civilians are not allowed to use Apple technology at this
> moment.
> -->
> http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2013/04/05/russia_war_on_internet_freedom
>
> I absolutely do not recommend to bring your gadgets with you unless you
> don't want to prolong your stay for some years in Siberia.
>
> ))
> Am 2013-05-08 02:59, schrieb William Rivers:
>
> Looking for advice on using my iPad's cellular capabilities in Russia - has
> anyone traveled and purchased a SIM? any other advice? please reply offline.
>
> William P. Rivers, Ph.D.
> Executive Director
> Joint National Committee for Languages – National Council for Language and
> International Studies
> Chair, ASTM F43 Committee on Language Services and Products
> 4646 40th St., NW, Suite 310
> Washington, DC  20016(202) 966-8477 (o)(240) 529-7684 (c)
>
>
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From MTucker at AIFS.CO.UK  Thu May  9 20:18:51 2013
From: MTucker at AIFS.CO.UK (Matt Tucker)
Date: Thu, 9 May 2013 21:18:51 +0100
Subject: iPad in Russia
In-Reply-To: <CAOjFfrZRCt-Jq+WufSNhs_S4jLwK1e+LtnbCNn390fAdkkQ3iQ@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <THU.9.MAY.2013.211851.0100.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.UA.EDU>

Y'all are ridiculous!

Sent from my iPhone

On 10.05.2013, at 0:17, "Konstantin Kudinov" <kudichster at GMAIL.COM<mailto:kudichster at GMAIL.COM>> wrote:

Peter is right,
I would never take an iPad to Russia with me. The use of apple technologies is strictly prohibited and officially illegal without special permission signed by Russian President Vladimir Putin. The punishment for that is severe and depends on device model you have (de iure) and mostly on local judge's mood (de facto). In general adult people go to prison-like settlements in Siberia for 1-2 years, depending on iPad/iPhone/iPod model the person has.

The reason for that is simple: russian authorities just want to be unique people using apple products in the country. Actually, ban on apple devices caused all protest events on Moscow streets and across the country. Pussy Riot band members are in prison because they were using unauthorized apple devices to capture video of their performance in the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour. Another well-known example is the death of Alexander Litvinenko. While western media were kept focusing on espionage assassin paranoid versions everyone in Russia knows real reason. Litvinenko managed to get newer model of iPhone than Putin had at that time. So he was lectured for his insolent behavior.

Of course there are some ways to bring in an apple technology. If you still have enough courage to do so, I would recommend the simplest one: when you go through passport control in the airport just have 2-3 hundred dollars in cash in your passport and say “I have a present for you”. Usually, it helps to get rid of hard-bitten attention of kgb agents.

Best of luck

Konstantin Kudinov


2013/5/9 Peter Ruki <0000list at gmail.com<mailto:0000list at gmail.com>>
Unfortunately civilians are not allowed to use Apple technology at this moment.
--> http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2013/04/05/russia_war_on_internet_freedom

I absolutely do not recommend to bring your gadgets with you unless you don't want to prolong your stay for some years in Siberia.

))
Am 2013-05-08 02:59, schrieb William Rivers:

Looking for advice on using my iPad's cellular capabilities in Russia - has
anyone traveled and purchased a SIM? any other advice? please reply offline.

William P. Rivers, Ph.D.
Executive Director
Joint National Committee for Languages – National Council for Language and
International Studies
Chair, ASTM F43 Committee on Language Services and Products
4646 40th St., NW, Suite 310
Washington, DC  20016
(202) 966-8477<tel:%28202%29%20966-8477> (o)
(240) 529-7684<tel:%28240%29%20529-7684> (c)




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From megojones at GMAIL.COM  Fri May 10 05:48:36 2013
From: megojones at GMAIL.COM (Molly Godwin-Jones)
Date: Fri, 10 May 2013 01:48:36 -0400
Subject: funding for study abroad in Northern Caucasus
Message-ID: <FRI.10.MAY.2013.014836.0400.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.UA.EDU>

Dear SEELANGS,

I'm having trouble finding funding opportunities for a fairly specific purpose. I'm currently enrolled directly as an undergrad at Pyatigorsk State Linguistic University in Russia, and am trying to find sources to continue funding my studies here. This is proving difficult for a few reasons:

1.) I'm not enrolled at a US institution, so am ineligible for grants that require matriculation in these types of institutions (such as Boren).
2.) Pyatigorsk State Linguistic University is technically located in the Northern Caucasus region, and certain grants will not provide funding to this region (such as Fulbright).

Primarily, I'm here studying Russian language and translation, however, I would also like to conduct some sort of research in the region (most likely related to sociolinguistics/cultural and language identity). I have an M.A. from the US, so can qualify for graduate student awards, however I'm not doing dissertation research, so ineligible for Ph.D. awards. I would appreciate any information on lesser-known funding sources (for the 2014-2015 academic year). 

Please reply to megojones at gmail.com. Thank you for any suggestions!

Sincerely,

Molly Godwin-Jones
megojones at gmail.com

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From bwolfson at AMHERST.EDU  Fri May 10 02:43:17 2013
From: bwolfson at AMHERST.EDU (Boris Wolfson)
Date: Thu, 9 May 2013 21:43:17 -0500
Subject: Petition to support the Russian Institute for the History of the
 Arts
Message-ID: <THU.9.MAY.2013.214317.0500.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.UA.EDU>

At request of a colleague, I am sharing a plea for help from the Institute for the History of the Arts of the Russian Academy of Sciences (more information at www.artcenter.ru/en/):

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9 мая 2013 г.

Дорогие друзья и глубокоуважаемые коллеги!

Необходимо собрать как можно больше подписей в защиту Российского института истории искусств.
Чтобы оставить свою подпись нужно пойти по этой ссылке (обращение к Президенту РФ):

http://chn.ge/10xDKzQ

Очень просим вас -- разослать эту петицию нашим общим друзьям,  которых не оказалось в нашей адресной книге .

Ксения Кумпан <kumpan1947 at gmail.com>
Альбин Конечный 

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From mkatz at MIDDLEBURY.EDU  Fri May 10 13:37:17 2013
From: mkatz at MIDDLEBURY.EDU (Katz, Michael R.)
Date: Fri, 10 May 2013 13:37:17 +0000
Subject: FW: 20th century Russian plays in performance
In-Reply-To: <1974E8CCB60FFE4891887DA3CF2318EA0315ECE1@EXCL1VS2.adir.hull.ac.uk>
Message-ID: <FRI.10.MAY.2013.133717.0000.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.UA.EDU>

Dea colleagues: I am posting this for a colleague at the University of Hull. If you can assist in her research, please reply directly to her.

Michael Katz
Middlebury College

>
>I wonder if any of you can help me - I'm trying to track down
>performances of the work of four specific Russian playwrights in the UK.
>
>The playwrights are Alexander (sometimes Aleksandr) Afinogenev, Vladimir
>Kirshon, Nikolai Pogodin, and Alexei (or Aleksei) Arbuzov.
>
>If anyone has either been in or seen a production by any of these
>playwrights, I'd love to hear from you off-list at A.E.Skinner at hull.ac.uk<mailto:A.E.Skinner at hull.ac.uk>
>
>Many thanks in advance - and best wishes for a relaxing weekend!
>
>Amy
>
>
>Dr. Amy Skinner
>Lecturer in Drama and Theatre Practice
>University of Hull
>


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From gardellawg at GMAIL.COM  Fri May 10 15:24:17 2013
From: gardellawg at GMAIL.COM (William Gardella)
Date: Fri, 10 May 2013 15:24:17 +0000
Subject: iPad in Russia
In-Reply-To: Konstantin Kudinov's message of "Thu\, 9 May 2013 13\:16\:54
 -0700"
Message-ID: <FRI.10.MAY.2013.152417.0000.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.UA.EDU>

Konstantin Kudinov <kudichster at GMAIL.COM> writes:

> Peter is right,
> I would never take an iPad to Russia with me. The use of apple
> technologies is strictly prohibited and officially illegal without
> special permission signed by Russian President Vladimir Putin. The
> punishment for that is severe and depends on device model you have (
> de iure) and mostly on local judge's mood (de facto). In general
> adult people go to prison-like settlements in Siberia for 1-2 years,
> depending on iPad/iPhone/iPod model the person has.
>
>
> The reason for that is simple: russian authorities just want to be
> unique people using apple products in the country. Actually, ban on
> apple devices caused all protest events on Moscow streets and across
> the country. Pussy Riot band members are in prison because they were
> using unauthorized apple devices to capture video of their
> performance in the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour. Another
> well-known example is the death of Alexander Litvinenko. While
> western media were kept focusing on espionage assassin paranoid
> versions everyone in Russia knows real reason. Litvinenko managed to
> get newer model of iPhone than Putin had at that time. So he was
> lectured for his insolent behavior.

[...]

> Of course there are some ways to bring in an apple technology. If you
> still have enough courage to do so, I would recommend the simplest
> one: when you go through passport control in the airport just have
> 2-3 hundred dollars in cash in your passport and say “I have a
> present for you”. Usually, it helps to get rid of hard-bitten
> attention of kgb agents.

You, sir, are a treasure.  It took a second reading to catch all the
whoppers in this post (Litvinenko killed for iPhone possession, "the
kgb" at airports)--brilliant.

> 2013/5/9 Peter Ruki <0000list at gmail.com>
>
>     Unfortunately civilians are not allowed to use Apple technology
>     at this moment.
>     --> http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2013/04/05/
>     russia_war_on_internet_freedom
>    
>     I absolutely do not recommend to bring your gadgets with you
>     unless you don't want to prolong your stay for some years in
>     Siberia.

I can only hope that this was also a joke, as your citation doesn't seem
to have anything to do with the banning of Apple products, but rather
discusses the Unified Register of banned websites (which couldn't care
less what type of device you're connecting with) and the government's
efforts to implement a comprehensive Internet surveillance system.  In
case you were serious, see https://www.apple.com/ru/buy/.

Posts of this kind are what hacker communities call "FUD" (Fear,
Uncertainty, and Doubt), a form of misinformation that spreads farther
and faster than active government efforts at disinformation, which are
so transparently false as to discredit themselves.  FUD often comes from
a well-meaning and trusted source who thinks he's being helpful.
There's enough genuinely bad stuff happening with regard to Internet
users' rights in Russia and elsewhere that there's no need to spread FUD
all over it.

The main thing that Americans bringing mobile devices into Russia need
to be aware of is that it's a GSM country, and their devices must be
GSM-capable (to my knowledge, that's all cellular-equipped iPads in
existence except for those sold by Verizon).

--
Regards,
WGG

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From dassia2 at GMAIL.COM  Fri May 10 19:03:36 2013
From: dassia2 at GMAIL.COM (Dassia Posner)
Date: Fri, 10 May 2013 14:03:36 -0500
Subject: CFP: Influence, Transposition,
 Revision: Eastern European Theatre and its International
 Metamorphoses
Message-ID: <FRI.10.MAY.2013.140336.0500.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.UA.EDU>

Dear SEELANGers,
I am posting a Call for Papers that you might find of interest. Please see below.  I am posting this for a colleague, so please respond with queries or submissions to her directly: Yana Meerzon, ymeerzon at uOttawa.ca.
All best,
Dassia Posner
_____
Dassia N. Posner, Ph.D
Assistant Professor, Departments of Theatre and Slavic Languages and Literatures, Northwestern University



> CFP: Influence, Transposition, Revision: Eastern European Theatre and its International Metamorphoses (2 Hour Session)
>  
> at the 2013 American Society for Theatre Research/ Theatre Library Association Annual Conference

> November 7 - 10 2013, Dallas, TX 
>  
> http://www.astr.org/conference/2013-working-session-cfps
> This session is scheduled for Friday, November 8, 2013 between 1:30p.m. and  3:30p.m.
> 
> Convener: Yana Meerzon, University of Ottawa ( yana.meerzon at uottawa.ca ) 
> 
> "Influence, Transposition, Revision: Eastern European Theatre and its International Metamorphoses" will explore the international life and afterlife of the theatrical and dramaturgical innovations originating in Eastern and Central Europe over the past century. Session participants are invited to examine the work of significant directors and choreographers (from Stanislavsky to Fokine), playwrights (from Chekhov to Havel), artists (from Kandinsky to Svoboda), performers (from Chaliapin to Cieslak), and theorists (from Mikhail Bakhtin to Jan Mukařovský), and to investigate how theatrical practices and theories have been internationally transposed. The participants will be asked to think about the legacy of Eastern and Central European theatre practice and theory in historiographical terms, considering what is to be gained by looking back at the heritage and dissemination of these innovations over the past century.

> In our collective discussion, we will explore notions of influence, echo, translation, and revision as we analyze how ideas, styles, training systems, plays, and productions move from their original socio-cultural contexts into new ones. Topics of investigation might include, but are not limited to the following:

> * What methodologies of acting and directing originating in Eastern and Central Europe have been absorbed, appropriated, and/or altered as they shifted geographically, politically, and temporally?
> * What innovations of theatrical design have been adapted in the West? Is it useful to think about these transformations in terms of adaptation and transposition?
> * What theoretical ideas on drama and performance-from the Russian formalist school to the Prague Linguistic circle's structuralism-have international echoes and in what form?
> * How has the work of theatrical émigrés from the region shaped the development of international theatre and dramaturgy?
> * To what extent and for which reasons are the significant productions of the past century originating in this region influential in today's theatre practice and across the globe?
> * What new theatrical conversations about practice, exchange, pedagogy and theory are developing between the theatre practices of this region and globalized theater today?
> 
> Interested scholars and theatre practitioners are invited to send their abstracts (250 words) and bios (100 words) to Yana Meerzon (ymeerzon at uottawa.ca) by June 3, 2013. 
> 
> Format:

> The on-site session at ASTR will take the format of a seminar. 
> Participants should send their (5-7 pages) statements/papers to the organizer by September 10, 2013. 
> The organizer will arrange the participants in groups and ask them to read and provide feedback on each other's work no later than November 1, as well as to design a list of questions and issues arising from their papers and discussions. 
> Five days prior to the conference, the organizer will collect and curate these lists in order to organize a dynamic and fruitful discussion of common theoretical and practical concerns at the conference.
> 
> For submission or queries, please contact:
> Yana Meerzon, Ph.D.
> Associate Professor, Director of Graduate Studies
> Department of Theatre, University of Ottawa
> 135 Séraphin-Marion, Room 304B
> Ottawa ON Canada, K1N 6N5
> Telephone: 613 562-5800, ext. 2243
> E-mail: ymeerzon at uOttawa.ca


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From safelton_11 at YAHOO.COM  Fri May 10 22:30:46 2013
From: safelton_11 at YAHOO.COM (Sandy Felton)
Date: Fri, 10 May 2013 15:30:46 -0700
Subject: Russian Acts of Kindness
In-Reply-To: <002601ce4c79$69a9c2d0$3cfd4870$@rogers.com>
Message-ID: <FRI.10.MAY.2013.153046.0700.SAFELTON11@YAHOO.COM>

     Hello Everyone:
 
     I got on this list to ask a question about a book to teach elderly people some basic Russian, but never got around to it. I think I'm going to drop off the list since I am not really a part of this community, but I will add something to this topic from my own perspective.
 
     I majored in Russian Studies. I studied in Leningrad right after Nixon and Brezhnev opened things up in the '70's. I got into computer software because for me Russian wasn't going to be a career. After the USSR, while trying to start my software career, I spoke a lot of Russian with Russians who came to the US, before they could speak English. I think many of these Russians would tell you that Russians can be very difficult people to deal with, and I can add that many are amazingly suspicious, though I suppose I understand why.
 
     I went to Prague to get my 4-week TEFL certificate in 2011. I intended to go to Russia to work, but nothing came of it. I easily got a job at a university in China, and I just got another university job in China for this fall. It took about 30 minutes, one interview on Skype. I could write quite a bit about what I've experienced trying to get a job in Russia, and it would be quite negative, almost to a point of absurdity. I did get one job that was supposed to start in early 2013, but I backed out because the private school had so much bs and because they misinformed me about when I would get the letter of invitation, and this caused me quite a bit of inconvenience and other things. I had no problems at all with any of this in regards to going to China, though to be honest I had my problems there. Of course had I spoken Chinese a little like I can speak Russian it would have been much better. I could also tell you a story about a volunteer job
 I recently inquired about in the Ukraine that probably wouldn't surprise you - the same old story, ridiculous in my opinion.
 
     You can call me anything you want to, but Eastern European language teachers are often an unpleasant, hypercritical lot. I've studied 8 foreign languages, so I speak from experience. I also know quite a few computer languages, and I say this because I get angry at certain people who criticize my language "qualifications." I don't think they'd last 10 minutes trying to write some complicated computer code. Not trying to be "haughty," but I had a very successful software career and worked overseas a good amount.
 
     I have to go now. I need to return to studying Chinese. Fortunately spoken Chinese is fairly easy, and Chinese people, despite their own difficult lives, are usually much easier to deal with.
 
     (Mr.) Sandy Felton

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From sarahhurst at ALASKA.NET  Fri May 10 23:01:52 2013
From: sarahhurst at ALASKA.NET (Sarah Hurst)
Date: Fri, 10 May 2013 15:01:52 -0800
Subject: Russian Acts of Kindness
Message-ID: <FRI.10.MAY.2013.150152.0800.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.UA.EDU>

I'm not sure exactly what this is about, but I think comparing Russia and
China is quite interesting - as I have also worked in both countries. I have
much more affinity for Russia. One of the biggest reasons is the language. I
love being able to talk to people in their own language and understand
what's going on in their lives and in the country. I worked in Beijing for a
year as the editor of an expat magazine. It was an amazing place to live in,
but I felt I had no clue about what was going on around me with only a few
words of Chinese. I knew that having spent years getting my Russian to a
decent level with the ability to devote four years of full-time study to it,
I had no chance of getting anywhere with Chinese in my spare time; and being
almost tone deaf that made Chinese virtually impossible to speak. Also just
in general I think I feel more comfortable with Russian culture than with
Chinese culture. 

 

In terms of getting things done, yes it's easier in China. They will ignore
all the rules for foreigners. If someone helps you, you'll have no problem.
My company found me an apartment and got me a tourist visa. They sent me to
Hong Kong to renew the tourist visa. It was quick and no one cared that I
didn't have a work permit. China was so incredibly dynamic and exciting
compared with Russia, I really admired people's zest to work and achieve
things, instead of the common Russian attitude that things are depressing
and overwhelming. But if the Chinese decide they don't like you, you're in
trouble. I didn't go to a lunch or something that the ad sales guy on the
magazine wanted me to go to for a client. As revenge, when I went on a trip
to England he informed my landlady that I was moving out of the apartment.
Perhaps because of the language, perhaps because of the culture, I made zero
personal connections with Chinese people when I was there. There were no
Chinese people I could consider real friends, although many were friendly,
thinking they might get some benefit from knowing a foreigner. They would
literally smile at you on the street and say, "Can I be your friend?" 

 

Yes, the bureaucracy is one of the most frustrating things about Russia. It
is a shame that it's so difficult to visit and work there. I almost canceled
my recent trip because I didn't think the letter of invitation was going to
come in time. When it came I was told that it needed some extra reference
number or something on it and I had to have it redone. Getting the visa
registered involved trekking to a distant suburb of St. Petersburg to a tiny
office in a residential building to hand over some money, then returning a
few days later for a scrap of paper that was essential in order to leave the
country. That added a lot of stress during a short trip. It's a million
times worse for people who actually live there. Most people were friendly,
but there was still some suspicion from the older people who guard the
entrances to buildings. I had been invited to speak at the Arctic &
Antarctic Institute, but the woman at the entrance was afraid to write down
my passport number (she wrote down the ID numbers of everyone who entered),
because it was a foreign passport. She wanted me to get permission from the
local FSB representative, but the person accompanying me suggested that she
should just not write down my passport number, and it would be as if I'd
never been in, which pacified her. Another time I went to the geography
faculty of St. P. state university and the man there said, "Who are you?
You're foreign? Overseas, right?" 

 

On the whole, from my experience, I don't agree with the statement that
Chinese people are easier to deal with. 

 

Sarah Hurst

 

 


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From info at MALEVICHSOCIETY.ORG  Sat May 11 01:49:37 2013
From: info at MALEVICHSOCIETY.ORG (Malevich Society)
Date: Fri, 10 May 2013 21:49:37 -0400
Subject: Malevich Society Call for Grant Applications
Message-ID: <FRI.10.MAY.2013.214937.0400.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.UA.EDU>

Dear Colleagues,

The Malevich Society is pleased to announce its call for 2013 grant
applications.

The Malevich Society is a not-for-profit organization based in New York
dedicated to advancing knowledge about the Russian artist Kazimir Malevich
and his work.

In the belief that Malevich was a pioneer of modern art who should be
recognized for his key contributions to the history of Modernism, the
Society awards grants to encourage research, writing, and other activities
relating to his history and memory.

The Society welcomes applications from scholars of any nationality, and at
various stages of their career. Graduate students are welcome to apply to
the Society’s grants after completing at least one year of dissertation
research. Proposed projects should increase the understanding of Malevich
and his work, or augment historical, biographical, or artistic information
about Malevich and/or his artistic legacy. The Society also supports
translations and the publication of relevant texts.

Application forms and instructions may be requested by telephone at
1-718-980-1805, by e-mail at info at malevichsociety.org, or may be downloaded
from the web-site: www.malevichsociety.org.

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From sdsures at GMAIL.COM  Wed May  8 17:05:40 2013
From: sdsures at GMAIL.COM (Stephanie Briggs)
Date: Wed, 8 May 2013 18:05:40 +0100
Subject: Russian keyboards
In-Reply-To: <CAFRaNyLqkMi-Tdd8nzAwQg=t1iaX+dt2WdDp1vDh5KW6TxmoRg@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <WED.8.MAY.2013.180540.0100.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.UA.EDU>

For a black keyboard, has anyone had success with one colour of Cyrillic
stickers over another for visibility? I'm getting a new laptop shortly and
will need to get myself new labels. Initially, I got the set for my current
black keys from Amazon.co.uk. They were advertised as yellow, but actually
turned out to be green. So, still visible, but not as much as I'd hoped.

PS: I started off in 1999  studying with the FYVA layout (white/grey
keyboard, red stickers - worked great), and once I learned it, I found to
use the phonetic keyboard more confusing, to be honest. I suppose it
depends on your current usage, where you might use it in the future, and
personal adaptability as far as memorizing it goes. I have it partially
memorized, but then I also look at the keyboard whilst typing.

Stephanie

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On 1 May 2013 19:57, Michael A. Denner <mdenner at stetson.edu> wrote:

> i have to agree with colleagues here who are astonished that this point is
> being discussed, particularly inasmuch as it's simple to install both the
> soviet (russian) keyboard and a phonetic. i use the latter and my colleague
> the former, and we just switch the keyboard setting with a click. кому как.
>
> russian for gringos works on every computer i've ever used it on. and as
> don livingston points out, it's far and away the easiest way to mark
> stress... i might have mapped a few of the characters differently, but...
>
> finally, a workaround that i use all the time: google translate with the
> privet->привет function enabled, or even better the voice input method
> (quite good!). as i am a sloppy typist in the best of circumstances, i
> frankly appreciate its empathy for my foibles...
>
> ~mad
>
>
>
> .oOo.oOo.oOo.oOo.oOo.oOo.oOo.oOo.oOo.oOo.oOo.oOo.
>
>
>    Dr. Michael A. Denner
>    Associate Professor of Russian Studies
>    Editor, Tolstoy Studies Journal
>    Director, Russian Studies Program
>
>
>
>    Director, University Honors Program
>
>    Schedule an appointment <http://www2.stetson.edu/~mdenner/appointment.htm> with me. (Check your time zone!)
>
>
>    Contact Information:
>       Russian Studies Program
>       Stetson University
>       Campus Box 8361
>
>
>       DeLand, FL 32720-3756
>       386.822.7381 (department)
>
>       www.stetson.edu/~mdenner
>
>
>
>
> On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 1:54 PM, Alina Israeli <aisrael at american.edu>wrote:
>
>> My 2¢. Switching from QWERTY to AZERTY is also not easy if you are used
>> to touch typing.
>>
>> For individuals, not labs, I suppose, there is a Ukelele (sic!) program
>> that allows you to change your keyboard layout. It allowed me at one point
>> to synchronize my Mac and my PC, because various phonetic keyboards place Щ
>> or Ю rather according to their own desires.
>>
>> On May 1, 2013, at 12:16 PM, Sarah Hurst wrote:
>>
>> This has been very interesting. I didn't know that phonetic keyboards
>> were so widely used. I assumed that the standard Russian keyboard would be
>> easier to use because the most frequently-used letters are more central, as
>> with the QWERTY keyboard.****
>> ** **
>>
>>
>>   Alina Israeli
>> Associate Professor of Russian
>> WLC, American University
>> 4400 Massachusetts Ave.
>> Washington DC 20016
>> (202) 885-2387  fax (202) 885-1076
>> aisrael at american.edu
>>
>>
>>
>>
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From msmith at FIVECOLLEGES.EDU  Sat May 11 18:15:05 2013
From: msmith at FIVECOLLEGES.EDU (Marilyn Smith)
Date: Sat, 11 May 2013 18:15:05 +0000
Subject: CFP: =?Windows-1252?Q?=93The_Russian_Boom_Was_On=94=3A_?=The
 Inter-Cultural Work of Translation
Message-ID: <SAT.11.MAY.2013.181505.0000.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.UA.EDU>

“The Russian Boom Was On”: The Inter-Cultural Work of Translation

SAMLA Nov. 8-10, 2013 Atlanta, GA

Constance Garnett’s 1912 translation of Dostoevsky is credited with sparking the “Russian Fever” in Great Britain, while Russia’s entry into the Great War as an ally set off the “Russian Boom.” Yet, an increasing fascination with the country, its culture, and its literature dates from the beginning of the 20th century and continues beyond the years of war and revolution.

This panel explores the background to the explosion of interest in Russian literature in both the United States and Great Britain through early 20th century translations from the Russian. The boom in translation of literary texts was a primary conduit for efforts to alter public opinion and national policy in both countries. It also served to reduce the isolation of Russia from the West. Suggested topics may include: the work of individual translators; the English-language translations of particular authors; publishing houses, “small magazines,” or editors that welcomed or encouraged translations from the Russian; cultural or political contexts or movements that spurred public interest.

Please send 250-word abstracts for 20-minute papers (indicating any equipment/technical requirements), and a brief biographical note by the deadline of 30 June 2013 to Marilyn Schwinn Smith via e-mail: msmith at fivecolleges.edu<mailto:msmith at fivecolleges.edu>

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From oothappam at EARTHLINK.NET  Sat May 11 19:52:34 2013
From: oothappam at EARTHLINK.NET (Nola)
Date: Sat, 11 May 2013 12:52:34 -0700
Subject: Russian keyboards
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From kcf19 at DIAL.PIPEX.COM  Sun May 12 15:55:21 2013
From: kcf19 at DIAL.PIPEX.COM (Robert Chandler)
Date: Sun, 12 May 2013 16:55:21 +0100
Subject: Lev Ozerov. Boris Messerer
Message-ID: <SUN.12.MAY.2013.165521.0100.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.UA.EDU>

Dear all,

Is anyone able to tell me who owns copyright in the work of Lev Ozerov.  And if so, can you give me their contact details?

And does anyone have contact details for Boris Messerer, who I believe holds the rights for Akhmadulina?

All the best,

Robert





Robert Chandler, 42 Milson Road, London, W14 OLD

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From museum at ZISLIN.COM  Sun May 12 19:22:09 2013
From: museum at ZISLIN.COM (Uli Zislin)
Date: Sun, 12 May 2013 15:22:09 -0400
Subject: Lev Ozerov. Boris Messerer
In-Reply-To: <1512DB83-4D97-4A2F-9396-F52CAF82E5CA@dial.pipex.com>
Message-ID: <SUN.12.MAY.2013.152209.0400.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.UA.EDU>

American Museum of Russian Culture 
 for the general public (new Project)
http://www.museum.zislin.com/eng/americanmuseumeng.html
http://museumprojects.blogspot.com/

WASHINGTON  MUSEUM OF RUSSIAN POETRY AND MUSIC
          www.museum.zislin.com 
Rockville.  Greater Washington. Founded  1997


  WALK OF RUSSIAN POETS, COMPOSERS, and PAINTERS. 
http://www.museum.zislin.com/eng/alleyhistory.htm
http://www.museum.zislin.com/eng/meadowhistory.htm
           WASHINGTON, D.C.     Founded  2003
			     
			  ULI  ZISLIN,  PhD,
                 Founder, Curator, Collector, Songwriter 
www.museum.zislin.com   1-301/942-2728    museum at zislin.com


Dear Robert:

Я несколько последних лет жизни Льва Адольфовича Озерова общался с ним, ,
хорошо знаком и сотрудничал с его дочерью Еленой Львовной (она музыкант),
имею в своем музее некоторый архив Озерова, писал о нём и делал передачу о
нём на русском телевидении Америки. Могу попытаться позвонить Елене Львовне.


Всего доброго.

Юлий.

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[mailto:SEELANGS at LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Robert Chandler
Sent: Sunday, May 12, 2013 11:55 AM
To: SEELANGS at LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Subject: [SEELANGS] Lev Ozerov. Boris Messerer

Dear all,

Is anyone able to tell me who owns copyright in the work of Lev Ozerov.  And
if so, can you give me their contact details?

And does anyone have contact details for Boris Messerer, who I believe holds
the rights for Akhmadulina?

All the best,

Robert





Robert Chandler, 42 Milson Road, London, W14 OLD

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From welsh_business at VERIZON.NET  Mon May 13 12:11:02 2013
From: welsh_business at VERIZON.NET (Susan Welsh)
Date: Mon, 13 May 2013 07:11:02 -0500
Subject: Juvenile offenders study Russian literature in prison
Message-ID: <MON.13.MAY.2013.071102.0500.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.UA.EDU>

This fascinating program is getting more press coverage:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/crime-and-punishment-juvenile-offenders-study-russian-literature/2013/05/12/59b4b14c-b8e3-11e2-b94c-b684dda07add_story.html

Susan Welsh
http://www.ssw-translation.com
Translator and editor, German-English and Russian-English
Leesburg, Virginia USA
Phone: 1-703-777-8927

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From kmfplatt at SAS.UPENN.EDU  Mon May 13 19:36:21 2013
From: kmfplatt at SAS.UPENN.EDU (Kevin M. F. Platt)
Date: Mon, 13 May 2013 15:36:21 -0400
Subject: Final Call: Lecturer in Russian Language,
 Literature and Culture at the University of Pennsylvania in
 Spring, 2014
Message-ID: <MON.13.MAY.2013.153621.0400.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.UA.EDU>

Dear Colleagues: please note our advertised position. Review of applications is to begin after May 15.


Lecturer in Russian Language, Literature and Culture

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Date: Tue, 14 May 2013 18:05:11 +0400
Subject: high profile administrative job at Moscow's Higher School of
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From anne.o.fisher at GMAIL.COM  Wed May 15 05:14:18 2013
From: anne.o.fisher at GMAIL.COM (Anne Fisher)
Date: Tue, 14 May 2013 22:14:18 -0700
Subject: French name?
Message-ID: <TUE.14.MAY.2013.221418.0700.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.UA.EDU>

Hello folks,

I'm translating Platonov's "Anti-Sexus" and am wondering how best to
transliterate the second name in the company name Беркман, Шотлуа и Сн.
(Berkman, Shotlua i Sn).

My one distant semester of college French, which I'm assuming is the
language of origin of the name "Shotlua," doesn't make me feel confident
about my transliteration - would the best transliteration be "Chatlois?" I
googled that and didn't find any person with a similar name to whom
Platonov may have been referring... so any leads on possible referents
would also be gladly received.

Thanks,

Annie


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From mstaube at MSCC.HUJI.AC.IL  Wed May 15 06:36:50 2013
From: mstaube at MSCC.HUJI.AC.IL (Moshe Taube)
Date: Wed, 15 May 2013 09:36:50 +0300
Subject: French name?
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It can't be Chatlois, for then the "t" would not be pronounced. It's got to be Chautelois (there is such a name).

Moshe Taube

On May 15, 2013, at 8:14 AM, Anne Fisher wrote:

> Hello folks, 
> 
> I'm translating Platonov's "Anti-Sexus" and am wondering how best to transliterate the second name in the company name Беркман, Шотлуа и Сн. (Berkman, Shotlua i Sn).
> 
> My one distant semester of college French, which I'm assuming is the language of origin of the name "Shotlua," doesn't make me feel confident about my transliteration - would the best transliteration be "Chatlois?" I googled that and didn't find any person with a similar name to whom Platonov may have been referring... so any leads on possible referents would also be gladly received.
> 
> Thanks, 
> 
> Annie
>  
> 
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From besserglik at ORANGE.FR  Wed May 15 07:16:07 2013
From: besserglik at ORANGE.FR (Bernard Besserglik)
Date: Wed, 15 May 2013 09:16:07 +0200
Subject: French name?
In-Reply-To: <17097C01-349F-400F-A16F-C30F59EFDDF3@mscc.huji.ac.il>
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A tricky one. The French online White Pages gives not a single "Chautelois" for the whole of France, nor a single close approximation. The closest I could find was "Chollois" of which there were plenty. 
 
Bernard Besserglik 





> Message du 15/05/13 08:40
> De : "Moshe Taube" 
> A : SEELANGS at LISTSERV.UA.EDU
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> 
>It can't be Chatlois, for then the "t" would not be pronounced. It's got to be Chautelois (there is such a name).

>
Moshe Taube

>

On May 15, 2013, at 8:14 AM, Anne Fisher wrote:



Hello folks, 

>
I'm translating Platonov's "Anti-Sexus" and am wondering how best to transliterate the second name in the company name Беркман, Шотлуа и Сн. (Berkman, Shotlua i Sn).

>
My one distant semester of college French, which I'm assuming is the language of origin of the name "Shotlua," doesn't make me feel confident about my transliteration - would the best transliteration be "Chatlois?" I googled that and didn't find any person with a similar name to whom Platonov may have been referring... so any leads on possible referents would also be gladly received.

>
Thanks, 

>
Annie
 
>


>
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From simon at SIMONBEATTIE.CO.UK  Wed May 15 07:39:23 2013
From: simon at SIMONBEATTIE.CO.UK (Simon Beattie)
Date: Wed, 15 May 2013 07:39:23 +0000
Subject: French name?
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Or Chantelois.  That’s a surname.

My suggestion would be to find a French translation of the text and see what that translator came up with.

Simon


From: SEELANGS: Slavic & East European Languages and Literatures list [mailto:SEELANGS at LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Bernard Besserglik
Sent: 15 May 2013 08:16
To: SEELANGS at LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] French name?


A tricky one. The French online White Pages gives not a single "Chautelois" for the whole of France, nor a single close approximation. The closest I could find was "Chollois" of which there were plenty.



Bernard Besserglik



> Message du 15/05/13 08:40
> De : "Moshe Taube"
> A : SEELANGS at LISTSERV.UA.EDU<mailto:SEELANGS at LISTSERV.UA.EDU>
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>
>It can't be Chatlois, for then the "t" would not be pronounced. It's got to be Chautelois (there is such a name).

>
Moshe Taube

>
On May 15, 2013, at 8:14 AM, Anne Fisher wrote:

Hello folks,

>
I'm translating Platonov's "Anti-Sexus" and am wondering how best to transliterate the second name in the company name Беркман, Шотлуа и Сн. (Berkman, Shotlua i Sn).

>
My one distant semester of college French, which I'm assuming is the language of origin of the name "Shotlua," doesn't make me feel confident about my transliteration - would the best transliteration be "Chatlois?" I googled that and didn't find any person with a similar name to whom Platonov may have been referring... so any leads on possible referents would also be gladly received.

>
Thanks,

>
Annie

>

>
--
>
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From mstaube at MSCC.HUJI.AC.IL  Wed May 15 07:48:15 2013
From: mstaube at MSCC.HUJI.AC.IL (Moshe Taube)
Date: Wed, 15 May 2013 10:48:15 +0300
Subject: French name?
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Google gives 239 results for Chautelois, which is not much, mostly for names from the New World (Quebec, etc.). If one's willing to allow further flexibility with the transliteration, there is Chantelois, which is a very popular name.

M.T.


On May 15, 2013, at 10:16 AM, Bernard Besserglik wrote:

> A tricky one. The French online White Pages gives not a single "Chautelois" for the whole of France, nor a single close approximation. The closest I could find was "Chollois" of which there were plenty. 
> 
>  
> Bernard Besserglik 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> > Message du 15/05/13 08:40
> > De : "Moshe Taube" 
> > A : SEELANGS at LISTSERV.UA.EDU
> > Copie à : 
> > Objet : Re: [SEELANGS] French name?
> > 
> >It can't be Chatlois, for then the "t" would not be pronounced. It's got to be Chautelois (there is such a name).
> 
> >
> Moshe Taube
> 
> >
> On May 15, 2013, at 8:14 AM, Anne Fisher wrote:
> 
> Hello folks, 
> 
> >
> I'm translating Platonov's "Anti-Sexus" and am wondering how best to transliterate the second name in the company name Беркман, Шотлуа и Сн. (Berkman, Shotlua i Sn).
> 
> >
> My one distant semester of college French, which I'm assuming is the language of origin of the name "Shotlua," doesn't make me feel confident about my transliteration - would the best transliteration be "Chatlois?" I googled that and didn't find any person with a similar name to whom Platonov may have been referring... so any leads on possible referents would also be gladly received.
> 
> >
> Thanks, 
> 
> >
> Annie
>  
> >
> 
> >
> -- 
> >
> Anne O. Fisher, Ph.D.
> > Russian>English Translator
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From Philippe.FRISON at COE.INT  Wed May 15 08:01:25 2013
From: Philippe.FRISON at COE.INT (FRISON Philippe)
Date: Wed, 15 May 2013 08:01:25 +0000
Subject: French name? =?utf-8?Q?=D0=A8=D0=BE=D1=82=D0=BB=D1=83=D0=B0?=
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A Frenchman myself, I checked and got 236 hints only with Google for this rather rare name, which should read : Chautelois.
« Chatelois » would get 24 100 hints, but it should have been transliterated with an « a ».

Regards

Philippe Frison
(Strasbourg, France)


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Hello folks,

I'm translating Platonov's "Anti-Sexus" and am wondering how best to transliterate the second name in the company name Беркман, Шотлуа и Сн. (Berkman, Shotlua i Sn).

My one distant semester of college French, which I'm assuming is the language of origin of the name "Shotlua," doesn't make me feel confident about my transliteration - would the best transliteration be "Chatlois?" I googled that and didn't find any person with a similar name to whom Platonov may have been referring... so any leads on possible referents would also be gladly received.

Thanks,

Annie


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From paulbg at PBG-TRANSLATIONS.COM  Wed May 15 08:14:58 2013
From: paulbg at PBG-TRANSLATIONS.COM (Paul B. Gallagher)
Date: Wed, 15 May 2013 04:14:58 -0400
Subject: French name?
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Anne Fisher wrote:

> Hello folks,
>
> I'm translating Platonov's "Anti-Sexus" and am wondering how best to
> transliterate the second name in the company name Беркман, Шотлуа и Сн.
> (Berkman, Shotlua i Sn).
>
> My one distant semester of college French, which I'm assuming is the
> language of origin of the name "Shotlua," doesn't make me feel confident
> about my transliteration - would the best transliteration be "Chatlois?"
> I googled that and didn't find any person with a similar name to whom
> Platonov may have been referring... so any leads on possible referents
> would also be gladly received.

The vast majority of hits on the web are for "Antisexus" without the 
hyphen (following American spelling rules), so you might have better 
luck searching that way.

There does seem to be one translation into Dutch as "De antisexus," 
wherein the name is spelled "Shotlew," but that doesn't sound much like 
the Russian.

I concur that the Russian "о" in the first syllable is unlikely to 
represent American English "short o" = /a/, but it could well represent 
French /o/.

French spelling is tricky because of all the silent consonants and 
multiple options for the same sounds. The second syllable, for example, 
might be "loi" or "lois" or "loit" because either "s" or "t" would be 
silent. And of course /o/ can be spelled "au," "eau," "aux," "eaux," 
"haut," etc. etc. It's how they keep the farners out. ;-)

-- 
War doesn't determine who's right, just who's left.
--
Paul B. Gallagher
pbg translations, inc.
"Russian Translations That Read Like Originals"
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From devilsbit06 at YAHOO.COM  Wed May 15 09:42:26 2013
From: devilsbit06 at YAHOO.COM (J P Maher)
Date: Wed, 15 May 2013 02:42:26 -0700
Subject: French name?
In-Reply-To: <BF6EE0CE945DA8479B6C6F8C3488C9667AD3CB@MBX02.bizispace.com>
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Reminiscent of the English edition of Vygotsky on aphasia, presumably by an RP speaker, of BROCA as BROKER.
 
j p maher

From: Simon Beattie <simon at SIMONBEATTIE.CO.UK>
Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] French name?
To: SEELANGS at LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Date: Wednesday, May 15, 2013, 2:39 AM







Or Chantelois.  That’s a surname.
 
My suggestion would be to find a French translation of the text and see what that translator came up with.
 
Simon
 
 

From: SEELANGS: Slavic & East European Languages and Literatures list [mailto:SEELANGS at LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Bernard Besserglik
Sent: 15 May 2013 08:16
To: SEELANGS at LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] French name?
 
A tricky one. The French online White Pages gives not a single "Chautelois" for the whole of France, nor a single close approximation. The closest I could find was "Chollois" of which there were plenty. 
 
Bernard Besserglik 





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> A : SEELANGS at LISTSERV.UA.EDU
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>It can't be Chatlois, for then the "t" would not be pronounced. It's got to be Chautelois (there is such a name). 


>

Moshe Taube


> 


On May 15, 2013, at 8:14 AM, Anne Fisher wrote:

 

Hello folks,  


>

I'm translating Platonov's "Anti-Sexus" and am wondering how best to transliterate the second name in the company name Беркман, Шотлуа и Сн. (Berkman, Shotlua i Sn).


>

My one distant semester of college French, which I'm assuming is the language of origin of the name "Shotlua," doesn't make me feel confident about my transliteration - would the best transliteration be "Chatlois?" I googled that and didn't find any person with a similar name to whom Platonov may have been referring... so any leads on possible referents would also be gladly received.


>

Thanks, 


>

Annie

 
>



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From resco at UMICH.EDU  Wed May 15 14:09:50 2013
From: resco at UMICH.EDU (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Alina_Makin?=)
Date: Wed, 15 May 2013 09:09:50 -0500
Subject: French name?
Message-ID: <WED.15.MAY.2013.090950.0500.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.UA.EDU>

Found another option for you: CHÂTELOY (castle of Eloy), as in the church under the same name http://herisson.planet-allier.com/prieure/prieure.htm.  

Alina Makin

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From resco at UMICH.EDU  Wed May 15 13:51:57 2013
From: resco at UMICH.EDU (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Alina_Makin?=)
Date: Wed, 15 May 2013 08:51:57 -0500
Subject: French name?
Message-ID: <WED.15.MAY.2013.085157.0500.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.UA.EDU>

Dear Annie,

There is a village and a castle named Choloy (Шолуа in Russian) in Lorraine (north-east France) -- see Russian wiki for details.  Since many last names are tied to geographic locations, it might be another transliteration option.  

My guess is that into Russian Chantelois would be transliterated as Шантелуa.

Hope that my message finds you well.  

Best,
Alina Makin

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From ptydepe at UMICH.EDU  Wed May 15 15:19:37 2013
From: ptydepe at UMICH.EDU (Jindrich Toman)
Date: Wed, 15 May 2013 11:19:37 -0400
Subject: French name?
In-Reply-To: <7785810550033377.WA.rescoumich.edu@listserv.ua.edu>
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There is an apparently Belgian name Chaudeloy--this would account for the
quality of the first vowel.
--Jindrich Toman


On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 9:51 AM, Alina Makin <resco at umich.edu> wrote:

> Dear Annie,
>
> There is a village and a castle named Choloy (Шолуа in Russian) in
> Lorraine (north-east France) -- see Russian wiki for details.  Since many
> last names are tied to geographic locations, it might be another
> transliteration option.
>
> My guess is that into Russian Chantelois would be transliterated as
> Шантелуa.
>
> Hope that my message finds you well.
>
> Best,
> Alina Makin
>
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From steiger at BELL.NET  Wed May 15 15:50:29 2013
From: steiger at BELL.NET (Krystyna Steiger)
Date: Wed, 15 May 2013 11:50:29 -0400
Subject: French name?
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Dear Anne,

a Dutch translation has the following:  Berkman, Shotlew and Son

best wishes,

Krystyna Steiger, PhD
Literary Translation
steiger at bell.net 


From: Anne Fisher 
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To: SEELANGS at LISTSERV.UA.EDU 
Subject: [SEELANGS] French name?

Hello folks,  

I'm translating Platonov's "Anti-Sexus" and am wondering how best to transliterate the second name in the company name Беркман, Шотлуа и Сн. (Berkman, Shotlua i Sn).

My one distant semester of college French, which I'm assuming is the language of origin of the name "Shotlua," doesn't make me feel confident about my transliteration - would the best transliteration be "Chatlois?" I googled that and didn't find any person with a similar name to whom Platonov may have been referring... so any leads on possible referents would also be gladly received.

Thanks, 

Annie

 

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From anne.o.fisher at GMAIL.COM  Thu May 16 04:04:49 2013
From: anne.o.fisher at GMAIL.COM (Anne Fisher)
Date: Wed, 15 May 2013 21:04:49 -0700
Subject: French name?
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Hello all,

Thank you for your on- and off-list replies. I tend to agree with the
majority opinion that this is French, and find the Dutch rendering of
“Shotlew” mysterious - perhaps there’s a famous “Shotlew” to whom Platonov
could have been construed as referring? - but I am still stuck choosing
between Chautelois and Châteloy.

Does anyone happen to know whether/how well Platonov knew French? Maybe he
meant a similar name (Chantelois), as some of you suggested, but
mistransliterated it? The thing that makes me feel I’m missing something is
that none of these versions appear to have a referent (be it real-life or
fictional), but the other names in the piece (Bergman, Kreuzkopf, etc) do.

At any rate, thanks for an interesting discussion,

Annie



2013/5/14 Anne Fisher <anne.o.fisher at gmail.com>

> Hello folks,
>
> I'm translating Platonov's "Anti-Sexus" and am wondering how best to
> transliterate the second name in the company name Беркман, Шотлуа и Сн.
> (Berkman, Shotlua i Sn).
>
> My one distant semester of college French, which I'm assuming is the
> language of origin of the name "Shotlua," doesn't make me feel confident
> about my transliteration - would the best transliteration be "Chatlois?" I
> googled that and didn't find any person with a similar name to whom
> Platonov may have been referring... so any leads on possible referents
> would also be gladly received.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Annie
>
>
> --
> Anne O. Fisher, Ph.D.
> Russian>English Translator
> anne.o.fisher at gmail.com
> 440-986-0175 (GMT-7)
>



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From kcf19 at DIAL.PIPEX.COM  Thu May 16 05:54:07 2013
From: kcf19 at DIAL.PIPEX.COM (Robert Chandler)
Date: Thu, 16 May 2013 06:54:07 +0100
Subject: French name?
In-Reply-To: <CA+rWh7m==b_exqxqPzNGgX8nBpDFfiXA81Cy+mHU6sWbe2UyeQ@mail.gmail.com>
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Dear Annie,

I stayed out of this discussion because I don't know 'Anti-Sexus' at all well and didn't have any thoughts about this name

But I CAN say that Platonov does, elsewhere, use French names in a meaningful way.  There is a young woman called Katya Bessonet-Favor (Бессонэ-Фавор) who appears both in the novel HAPPY MOSCOW and in 'Otets', a film script that incorporates many scenes from the novel.

Here is the endnote that Eric Naiman, myself, and I forget who else eventually came up with for the first appearance of this woman in HAPPY MOSCOW.
	• Platonov mentions a hydraulic pump called “Bessonet-favor” in his article “Goryachaya arktika” [Chutyo pravdy (Moscow: sovetskaya rossiya, 1990), 335–340]. In Happy Moscow this name is a pun. It recalls the achievements of world technology, and it is erotically charged. Bessonet is reminiscent of the french besogne, meaning “need” or even “sexual intercourse”; favor sounds like faveur, meaning “favor,” also often in a sexual context.

And this second endnote, for the film script, is summarised from an article by Yevgeny Yablokov.
	• The names of Platonov’s characters often have multiple resonances, but this name is especially complex. The young woman with this name in Happy Moscow is French, and the name’s French associations are explained in note 91. But the name also conjures up associations in Russian, all of them religious. Mount Tabor, the site of christ’s transfiguration, is—in Russian—Mount Tabor. The tabor light, the light revealed during the transfiguration, is favorsky svet. Bessonet is close to the russian adjective bessonny (“sleepless”), and this too may evoke an orthodox image: that of the icon of christ known as “The unsleeping eye”: even in sleep, Christ is looking after the world.

I realise that this must all seem insanely complicated to people who do not know these particular works - but it really does make sense in context! My guess is that we ARE all missing something and that there IS some personal or historical reference behind Chautelois / Châteloy.

All the best,

Robert
> 
> Hello all,
> 
> Thank you for your on- and off-list replies. I tend to agree with the majority opinion that this is French, and find the Dutch rendering of “Shotlew” mysterious - perhaps there’s a famous “Shotlew” to whom Platonov could have been construed as referring? - but I am still stuck choosing between Chautelois and Châteloy.
> 
> Does anyone happen to know whether/how well Platonov knew French? Maybe he meant a similar name (Chantelois), as some of you suggested, but mistransliterated it? The thing that makes me feel I’m missing something is that none of these versions appear to have a referent (be it real-life or fictional), but the other names in the piece (Bergman, Kreuzkopf, etc) do.
> 
> At any rate, thanks for an interesting discussion,
> 
> Annie 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 2013/5/14 Anne Fisher <anne.o.fisher at gmail.com>
> Hello folks, 
> 
> I'm translating Platonov's "Anti-Sexus" and am wondering how best to transliterate the second name in the company name Беркман, Шотлуа и Сн. (Berkman, Shotlua i Sn).
> 
> My one distant semester of college French, which I'm assuming is the language of origin of the name "Shotlua," doesn't make me feel confident about my transliteration - would the best transliteration be "Chatlois?" I googled that and didn't find any person with a similar name to whom Platonov may have been referring... so any leads on possible referents would also be gladly received.
> 
> Thanks, 
> 
> Annie
>  
> 
> -- 
> Anne O. Fisher, Ph.D.
> Russian>English Translator
> anne.o.fisher at gmail.com
> 440-986-0175 (GMT-7)
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
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> Russian>English Translator
> anne.o.fisher at gmail.com
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From Thomas.Langerak at UGENT.BE  Thu May 16 07:59:56 2013
From: Thomas.Langerak at UGENT.BE (Thomas Langerak)
Date: Thu, 16 May 2013 09:59:56 +0200
Subject: SEELANGS Digest - 15 May 2013 (#2013-212)
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Hello all, 

When I published "Antisexus" in 1981 in "Russian Literature" (IX-III), I searched very long for an English or American  name, ressembling Platonov's Шотлуа, but could not find any hint.  I was also the editor of the first translation, but I can't remember why the Dutch translator Jan Robert Braat rendered it as "Shotlew". May be because we supposed, that the company "Беркман, Шотлуа и Сн, Лтд." was English / American. 
I asked Platonov's widow, who let me make fotocopies of the typoscript of Antisexus, did Platonov know French; the answer was, that he only knew a little German. 

Thomas Langerak, 
Ghent University, Belgium

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Date:    Wed, 15 May 2013 21:04:49 -0700
From:    Anne Fisher <anne.o.fisher at GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: French name?

Hello all,

Thank you for your on- and off-list replies. I tend to agree with the
majority opinion that this is French, and find the Dutch rendering of
“Shotlew” mysterious - perhaps there’s a famous “Shotlew” to whom Platonov
could have been construed as referring? - but I am still stuck choosing
between Chautelois and Châteloy.

Does anyone happen to know whether/how well Platonov knew French? Maybe he
meant a similar name (Chantelois), as some of you suggested, but
mistransliterated it? The thing that makes me feel I’m missing something is
that none of these versions appear to have a referent (be it real-life or
fictional), but the other names in the piece (Bergman, Kreuzkopf, etc) do.

At any rate, thanks for an interesting discussion,

Annie



2013/5/14 Anne Fisher <anne.o.fisher at gmail.com>

> Hello folks,
>
> I'm translating Platonov's "Anti-Sexus" and am wondering how best to
> transliterate the second name in the company name Беркман, Шотлуа и Сн.
> (Berkman, Shotlua i Sn).
>
> My one distant semester of college French, which I'm assuming is the
> language of origin of the name "Shotlua," doesn't make me feel confident
> about my transliteration - would the best transliteration be "Chatlois?" I
> googled that and didn't find any person with a similar name to whom
> Platonov may have been referring... so any leads on possible referents
> would also be gladly received.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Annie
>
>
> --
> Anne O. Fisher, Ph.D.
> Russian>English Translator
> anne.o.fisher at gmail.com
> 440-986-0175 (GMT-7)
>



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From s.graham at UCL.AC.UK  Thu May 16 12:29:46 2013
From: s.graham at UCL.AC.UK (Graham, Seth)
Date: Thu, 16 May 2013 12:29:46 +0000
Subject: Job: Lecturer in Russian Cinema and Culture,
 University College London
Message-ID: <THU.16.MAY.2013.122946.0000.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.UA.EDU>

Dear Colleagues,

The School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London is accepting applications for the position of permanent, full-time lecturer (equivalent to assistant professor) in Russian Cinema and Culture, to begin Sep. 1, 2013.

Application deadline: 12 JUNE 2013
Interviews to be conducted on 4 JULY 2013.

Details: http://tinyurl.com/cpe4jab

Questions regarding the application procedure should be addressed to Esther Williams (esther.williams at ucl.ac.uk<mailto:esther.williams at ucl.ac.uk>).

Enquiries concerning the requirements of the post may be directed to Professor Julian Graffy (j.graffy at ssees.ucl.ac.uk<mailto:j.graffy at ssees.ucl.ac.uk>).

All the best,

Seth

D r S e t h G r a h a m
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Office location: 16 Taviton St. (the SSEES Building), room 330
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From Alexandra.Smith at ED.AC.UK  Thu May 16 09:40:31 2013
From: Alexandra.Smith at ED.AC.UK (Alexandra Smith)
Date: Thu, 16 May 2013 10:40:31 +0100
Subject: French name?
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Dear Annie,

It might be a long shot but it's possible that there are some personal  
cryptograms and allusions embedded in Platonov's Antiseksus. A.  
Znatnov explains the usage of the surname Berkman thus: "По-видимому,  
намек на американского анархиста русского  происхождения Александра  
Беркмана (1870-1936). Эта  гипотеза  принадлежит  американскому  
исследователю  творчества  А.Платонова  Дж.Шепарду  (см.:  Shepard.J.   
The Origin of a  Master:  the  Early  Prose  of  Andrey  Platonov.  -   
Indiana University, Ph.D., 1973, р.185), который  соотнес   
"Антисексус"  с  книгой А.Беркмана "Антиклимакс". (См.: Berkman A. The  
Anti-Climax: The Concluding Chapter of My Russian Diary, the Bolshevik  
Myth. - Berlin. 1925).  С  1892 по 1906 год А.Беркман находился в  
Америке в  заключении  за  покушение  на стального магната Генри  
Фрика. В 1917 году вторично осужден за антивоенную деятельность. В  
1919  году  Беркман  был  выслан  из  США  в  Россию,  где занимался   
активной  общественной  деятельностью.   После   кронштадтского  
восстания 1921 года выслан в Европу. Автор книг и памфлетов,  
разоблачающих "большевицкий миф".).
Given that the name Shotlua appears next to the name of the anarchist  
opposed to Boslsheviks, it well might be that Platonov alludes to his  
own family as a unit that has its own anarchistic tendencies. The name  
can be read in a mirror-like way backwards as an anagram. It will  
appear then as  this phrase: AUL TOSH. The word "aul" refers to a  
nomadic settlement that includes immediate family. Tosh is a short  
version of the name Platon. Platonov's son Platon was born in 1922. I  
have seen some references suggesting that he was often called Tosh.
As Robert Chandler pointed out, Platonov's texts are full of puns and  
playful allusions.

All best,
Alexandra

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From ewb2 at CORNELL.EDU  Thu May 16 14:55:42 2013
From: ewb2 at CORNELL.EDU (E Wayles Browne)
Date: Thu, 16 May 2013 14:55:42 +0000
Subject: French name?
In-Reply-To: <20130516104031.24092cwsmqyt24ro@www.staffmail.ed.ac.uk>
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Does anyone know how Platonov pronounced the name? If he said "shotluA" perhaps he did mean it to be French, but if he said "shOtlua" he might have meant it to be Georgian. Georgian surnames most commonly end in -idze, -adze, -ishvili or -ashvili, but there is also a type (strictly speaking it's Megrelian) that ends in -ua (like the British/Georgian singer Katie Melua). See B. O. Unbegaun, Russian Surnames, pp. 382-385.
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Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2013 5:40 AM
To: SEELANGS at LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] French name?

Dear Annie,

It might be a long shot but it's possible that there are some personal
cryptograms and allusions embedded in Platonov's Antiseksus. A.
Znatnov explains the usage of the surname Berkman thus: "По-видимому,
намек на американского анархиста русского  происхождения Александра
Беркмана (1870-1936). Эта  гипотеза  принадлежит  американскому
исследователю  творчества  А.Платонова  Дж.Шепарду  (см.:  Shepard.J.
The Origin of a  Master:  the  Early  Prose  of  Andrey  Platonov.  -
Indiana University, Ph.D., 1973, р.185), который  соотнес
"Антисексус"  с  книгой А.Беркмана "Антиклимакс". (См.: Berkman A. The
Anti-Climax: The Concluding Chapter of My Russian Diary, the Bolshevik
Myth. - Berlin. 1925).  С  1892 по 1906 год А.Беркман находился в
Америке в  заключении  за  покушение  на стального магната Генри
Фрика. В 1917 году вторично осужден за антивоенную деятельность. В
1919  году  Беркман  был  выслан  из  США  в  Россию,  где занимался
активной  общественной  деятельностью.   После   кронштадтского
восстания 1921 года выслан в Европу. Автор книг и памфлетов,
разоблачающих "большевицкий миф".).
Given that the name Shotlua appears next to the name of the anarchist
opposed to Boslsheviks, it well might be that Platonov alludes to his
own family as a unit that has its own anarchistic tendencies. The name
can be read in a mirror-like way backwards as an anagram. It will
appear then as  this phrase: AUL TOSH. The word "aul" refers to a
nomadic settlement that includes immediate family. Tosh is a short
version of the name Platon. Platonov's son Platon was born in 1922. I
have seen some references suggesting that he was often called Tosh.
As Robert Chandler pointed out, Platonov's texts are full of puns and
playful allusions.

All best,
Alexandra

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From aisrael at AMERICAN.EDU  Thu May 16 15:36:10 2013
From: aisrael at AMERICAN.EDU (Alina Israeli)
Date: Thu, 16 May 2013 11:36:10 -0400
Subject: French name?
In-Reply-To: <8592D1BA-2580-497E-A7FF-C40D637B40C7@dial.pipex.com>
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It seems to me that in French the distinction S/Z is much more  
important than in Russian or in English, although we should ask our  
resident French native speakers  Françoise and Philippe. Even Russian  
alternations happen on the morpheme line, not in the root, at least I  
cannot think of any such instances.

While Besson and Bessonet exist in French they are pronounced with S,  
while besogne is pronounced with a Z. Бессонэ to me is a lot  
closer to Бессонов, a last name that exists and which implies  
bez-sna 'sans sommeil', 'sleepless'.

Besson on the other hand means 'twin'.


On May 16, 2013, at 1:54 AM, Robert Chandler wrote:

>
> Here is the endnote that Eric Naiman, myself, and I forget who else  
> eventually came up with for the first appearance of this woman in  
> HAPPY MOSCOW.
> 	• Platonov mentions a hydraulic pump called “Bessonet-favor”  
> in his article “Goryachaya arktika” [Chutyo pravdy (Moscow:  
> sovetskaya rossiya, 1990), 335–340]. In Happy Moscow this name is a  
> pun. It recalls the achievements of world technology, and it is  
> erotically charged. Bessonet is reminiscent of the french besogne,  
> meaning “need” or even “sexual intercourse”; favor sounds  
> like faveur, meaning “favor,” also often in a sexual context.
>

Alina Israeli
Associate Professor of Russian
WLC, American University
4400 Massachusetts Ave.
Washington DC 20016
(202) 885-2387 	fax (202) 885-1076
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From anne.o.fisher at GMAIL.COM  Thu May 16 16:16:01 2013
From: anne.o.fisher at GMAIL.COM (Anne Fisher)
Date: Thu, 16 May 2013 09:16:01 -0700
Subject: French name?
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Thank you so much for these great points! Alexandra, I did know about the
Berkman reference, which is why I agree that there must be some reference
in the name "Shotlua" too, I'm just not finding it. (But I'm glad you
provided this reference, since I just saw I am spelling that name wrong!).

In this case it would be lost in transl[iter]ation, since the hidden "aul"
"tosh" would be lost once the name is rendered back into its original (?)
language.

And, it is true that the first syllable could indeed be the German
"schott-", but the second, "-lua", doesn't sound very Germanic. Does anyone
know whether "-lua" exists somewhere as a variant of the more common German
diminutive ending "-l" or "-li"? Or - since an introduced "-ua-" sound is
very typical for Austrian German (for example), maybe this "-lua" could be
a phonetic rendering of a regional or dialect pronunciation of a German
name ... maybe "Schottler"? (Although if Platonov did have some German, he
would know that this name as written does not transliterate into Russian as
"Шотлуа" [Shotlua].)

I will keep thinking. Thanks again to the list for your superbly helpful
and informative comments.

Annie




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From frosset at WHEATONMA.EDU  Thu May 16 16:29:57 2013
From: frosset at WHEATONMA.EDU (Francoise Rosset)
Date: Thu, 16 May 2013 12:29:57 -0400
Subject: French name?
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Since Alina has pulled us "resident French speakers" both into the fray,
maybe Philippe has some more thoughts.
I stayed out of it because I know less than nothing about Platonov, and I
can't tell if this was really a French name.
I am awed by the possibilities, though, and the collective knowledge of
this list.

Here's my meager contribution.

There's something about Shotlua that keeps tugging at the back of my mind.
Don't know what it is. To be even more vague, it bothers me because it
seems somehow NOT French to me, maybe with the assumed Russian
pronunciation. I can't tell you why except SHATlua would have sounded
immediately french and this does not.
Has everyone eliminated the possibility that it might BE Shotlew, and what
is that anyway?

"Bessonet is reminiscent of the french besogne, meaning “need” or even
“sexual intercourse”; favor sounds like faveur, meaning “favor,” also often
in a sexual context."

OK, this I can comment on a bit.

Alina is right that the S/Z distinction is significant in French. It also
changes the pronunciation of that E. A French person would likely NOT
associate a properly pronounced Bessonet, an actual name, and besogne..
(The word "need" in french is besoin, which to most French kids denotes a
euphemism for going to the bathroom. I don't remember "besogne" (chore)
meaning need.)

Apparently "besogne" DOES have sexual connotations. Learn something every
day. It was used as such mostly from the 12th to the 16th centuries and got
revived somehow.
As for favor, the word faveur IS used in French to mean sexual favors, but
frankly to me that seems terribly stilted and I've never seen it in
literature. In ENGLISH, on the other hand .... and "favor" is English not
french.
I had trouble even finding "favor" in french google -- but I did find this,
which may or may not be significant since we're talking about a hydraulic
pump:
"Favor était une entreprise française fabricant des motos, cyclomoteurs et
cycles à Chamalières <http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chamali%C3%A8res> près
de Clermont-Ferrand <http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clermont-Ferrand>. Fondée
en 1898 par Etienne Guillaume, elle a fermé ses portes en 1977."

Someone -- Robert I think -- said we're probably missing something.
We are, though not for lack of trying and thinking ...
-FR



On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 11:36 AM, Alina Israeli <aisrael at american.edu>wrote:

> It seems to me that in French the distinction S/Z is much more important
> than in Russian or in English, although we should ask our resident French
> native speakers  Françoise and Philippe. Even Russian alternations happen
> on the morpheme line, not in the root, at least I cannot think of any such
> instances.
>
> While Besson and Bessonet exist in French they are pronounced with S,
> while *besogne* is pronounced with a Z. Бессонэ to me is a lot closer to
> Бессонов, a last name that exists and which implies bez-sna 'sans sommeil',
> 'sleepless'.
>
> *Besson* on the other hand means 'twin'.
>
>
> On May 16, 2013, at 1:54 AM, Robert Chandler wrote:
>
>
> Here is the endnote that Eric Naiman, myself, and I forget who else
> eventually came up with for the first appearance of this woman in HAPPY
> MOSCOW.
> • Platonov mentions a hydraulic pump called “Bessonet-favor” in his
> article “Goryachaya arktika” [Chutyo pravdy (Moscow: sovetskaya rossiya,
> 1990), 335–340]. In Happy Moscow this name is a pun. It recalls the
> achievements of world technology, and it is erotically charged. Bessonet is
> reminiscent of the french besogne, meaning “need” or even “sexual
> intercourse”; favor sounds like faveur, meaning “favor,” also often in a
> sexual context.
>
>
> Alina Israeli
> Associate Professor of Russian
> WLC, American University
> 4400 Massachusetts Ave.
> Washington DC 20016
> (202) 885-2387  fax (202) 885-1076
> aisrael at american.edu
>
>
>
>
>
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From zielinski at GMX.CH  Thu May 16 17:25:48 2013
From: zielinski at GMX.CH (Jan Zielinski)
Date: Thu, 16 May 2013 19:25:48 +0200
Subject: French name?
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In Polish tradition it's rendered as "Berkman, Chateloix and Sn Ltd". Cf.:


    Jakub Sadowski


      Rewolucja i kontrrewolucja obyczajów. Rodzina, prokreacja i
      przestrzeń życia w rosyjskim dyskursie utopijnym lat 20. i 30. XX
      wieku

Kurowice 2005, Wydawnictwo Ibidem, p. 37.

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From frosset at WHEATONMA.EDU  Thu May 16 17:43:39 2013
From: frosset at WHEATONMA.EDU (Francoise Rosset)
Date: Thu, 16 May 2013 13:43:39 -0400
Subject: French name?
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More tidbits:
Chateloix, especially spelled Chatelois is a common surname in Québec.
Within the same family, it can even be spelled ... Chantelois.

I would not have expected the transliteration to sport an O, however.
-FR





On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 1:25 PM, Jan Zielinski <zielinski at gmx.ch> wrote:

>  In Polish tradition it's rendered as "Berkman, Chateloix and Sn Ltd". Cf.:
>
> Jakub Sadowski Rewolucja i kontrrewolucja obyczajów. Rodzina, prokreacja
> i przestrzeń życia w rosyjskim dyskursie utopijnym lat 20. i 30. XX wiekuKurowice 2005, Wydawnictwo Ibidem, p. 37.
>
> Jan Zielinski
> Berne
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From: aatseel at USC.EDU (Elizabeth Durst)
Date: Thu, 16 May 2013 15:24:56 -0500
Subject: Editor - AATSEEL Newsletter
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From: cassio.de.oliveira at GMAIL.COM (Cassio de Oliveira)
Date: Fri, 17 May 2013 19:21:38 -0400
Subject: Call for Submissions to Asymptote Journal
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I'm posting this on behalf of a friend. Please contact the editors directly
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Call for submissions:

Asymptote (http://www.asymptotejournal.com/), an international journal of
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From hugh_olmsted at COMCAST.NET  Sat May 18 05:43:33 2013
From: hugh_olmsted at COMCAST.NET (HUgh Olmsted)
Date: Sat, 18 May 2013 05:43:33 +0000
Subject: Pronunciation help with Latvian song text
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Friends and colleagues, brāļi un māsas! 



I am preparing the text of a well-beloved Latvian song, "Kas tie tādi," in slightly modified transcription to help a chorus pronounce it reasonably, and am writing to request help from you who really know the language and the text. 




As you know, standard Latvian orthography uses a single letter, e , to represent two different sounds: "closed" [ɛ] and "open" [æ]; the former sounds something like US standard pronunciation of the vowel in "head"or "led" or "gem"; the latter sounds more like the vowel in US standard "had"or "lad" or "jam". (As with other vowels, both of these "e"-variants can occur short or long, standardly written "e" or "ē".) If you don't know the language, when you meet a graphic "e" or "ē" you can't very well tell which pronunciation to give it, like head/led/gem or had/lad/jam. 


In the text below (four verses), my intention is to indicate this difference by using an arbitrary "e*" for the open (had/lad/jam) variant. I have done my best to do so, but there are probably some mistakes remaining. I would be very grateful for corrections of mistakes I may have made in this or any other feature (long/short syllables, for instance). It probably makes most sense to respond off-list. 


Many thanks. Liels paldies! 


Hugh Olmsted 




Kas tie tādi, kas dziedāja, 

Bez saulītes vakarā? 

Tie ir visi bāra bē*rni, 

Bargu kungu klausītāj’. 



2. 

Kurin’ ugun, silda gaisu, 

Slauka gaužas asaras, 

Krimta cietu pe*lavmaizi, 

Avotiņa mē*rcē*dam’. 



3. 

Saulīt vē*lu vakarāi, 

Sēžas zeltā laiviņā, 

Rītā, agri uzlē*kdama, 

Atstāj laivu līgojot. 



4. 

Kam, saulīte, vē*lu lēci, 

Kur tik ilgi kavējies? 

Aiz viņiemi kalniņiemi, 

Bāra bē*rnus sildīdam’. 

[note: e* pronounced like ‘had/lad/jam']

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From townsend at PRINCETON.EDU  Sat May 18 12:15:10 2013
From: townsend at PRINCETON.EDU (Charles Townsend)
Date: Sat, 18 May 2013 08:15:10 -0400
Subject: Pronunciation help with Latvian song text
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Why don't you translate it for us, Hugh.

Regards,

Charlie
On May 18, 2013, at 1:43 AM, HUgh Olmsted wrote:

> Friends and colleagues, brāļi un māsas!
> 
> I am preparing the text of a well-beloved Latvian song, "Kas tie tādi," in slightly modified transcription to help a chorus pronounce it reasonably, and am writing to request help from you who really know the language and the text. 
> 
> As you know, standard Latvian orthography uses a single letter, e , to represent two different sounds: "closed" [ɛ] and "open" [æ]; the former sounds something like US standard pronunciation of the vowel in "head"or "led" or "gem"; the latter sounds more like the vowel in US standard "had"or "lad" or "jam". (As with other vowels, both of these "e"-variants can occur short or long, standardly written "e" or "ē".) If you don't know the language, when you meet a graphic "e" or "ē" you can't very well tell which pronunciation to give it, like head/led/gem or had/lad/jam. 
> 
> In the text below (four verses), my intention is to indicate this difference by using an arbitrary "e*" for the open (had/lad/jam) variant. I have done my best to do so, but there are probably some mistakes remaining. I would be very grateful for corrections of mistakes I may have made in this or any other feature (long/short syllables, for instance).  It probably makes most sense to respond off-list.
> 
> Many thanks.  Liels paldies!
> 
> Hugh Olmsted
> 
> Kas tie tādi, kas dziedāja,
> Bez saulītes vakarā?
> Tie ir visi bāra bē*rni,
> Bargu kungu klausītāj’.
>  
> 2.
> Kurin’ ugun, silda gaisu,
> Slauka gaužas asaras,
> Krimta cietu pe*lavmaizi,
> Avotiņa mē*rcē*dam’.
>  
> 3.
> Saulīt vē*lu vakarāi,
> Sēžas zeltā laiviņā,
> Rītā, agri uzlē*kdama,
> Atstāj laivu līgojot.
>  
> 4.
> Kam, saulīte, vē*lu lēci,
> Kur tik ilgi kavējies?
> Aiz viņiemi kalniņiemi,
> Bāra bē*rnus sildīdam’.
>  
> [note: e* pronounced like ‘had/lad/jam']
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From cwoolhis at GMAIL.COM  Sat May 18 18:55:57 2013
From: cwoolhis at GMAIL.COM (Curt Woolhiser)
Date: Sat, 18 May 2013 14:55:57 -0400
Subject: Pronunciation help with Latvian song text
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Dear Hugh,
I'd suggest you contact Guntis Smidchens at the University of Washington (
guntiss at uw.edu), I'm sure he'd be able to help you.

Best,
Curt Woolhiser
Brandeis U


On Sat, May 18, 2013 at 1:43 AM, HUgh Olmsted <hugh_olmsted at comcast.net>wrote:

> Friends and colleagues, brāļi un māsas!****
>
>
> I am preparing the text of a well-beloved Latvian song, "Kas tie tādi," in
> slightly modified transcription to help a chorus pronounce it reasonably,
> and am writing to request help from you who really know the language and
> the text.
>
> As you know, standard Latvian orthography uses a single letter, e , to
> represent two different sounds: "closed" [ɛ] and "open" [æ]; the former
> sounds something like US standard pronunciation of the vowel in "head"or
> "led" or "gem"; the latter sounds more like the vowel in US standard
> "had"or "lad" or "jam". (As with other vowels, both of these "e"-variants
> can occur short or long, standardly written "e" or "ē".) If you don't know
> the language, when you meet a graphic "e" or "ē" you can't very well tell
> which pronunciation to give it, like head/led/gem or had/lad/jam. ****
>
> In the text below (four verses), my intention is to indicate this
> difference by using an arbitrary "e*" for the open (had/lad/jam) variant. I
> have done my best to do so, but there are probably some mistakes remaining.
> I would be very grateful for corrections of mistakes I may have made in
> this or any other feature (long/short syllables, for instance).  It
> probably makes most sense to respond off-list.
>
> Many thanks.  Liels paldies!
>
> Hugh Olmsted
>
> Kas tie tādi, kas dziedāja,****
>
> Bez saulītes vakarā?****
>
> Tie ir visi bāra bē*rni,****
>
> Bargu kungu klausītāj’.****
>
>  ****
>
> 2.****
>
> Kurin’ ugun, silda gaisu,****
>
> Slauka gaužas asaras,****
>
> Krimta cietu pe*lavmaizi,****
>
> Avotiņa mē*rcē*dam’.****
>
>  ****
>
> 3.****
>
> Saulīt vē*lu vakarāi,****
>
> Sēžas zeltā laiviņā,****
>
> Rītā, agri uzlē*kdama,****
>
> Atstāj laivu līgojot.****
>
>  ****
>
> 4.****
>
> Kam, saulīte, vē*lu lēci,****
>
> Kur tik ilgi kavējies?****
>
> Aiz viņiemi kalniņiemi,****
>
> Bāra bē*rnus sildīdam’.****
>
>  ****
> [note: e* pronounced like ‘had/lad/jam']
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From olga.livshin at GMAIL.COM  Sun May 19 16:22:08 2013
From: olga.livshin at GMAIL.COM (Olga Livshin)
Date: Sun, 19 May 2013 11:22:08 -0500
Subject: Interlitq issue with a number of Russian poems in translation
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Dear SEELANGers,

I thought you might be interested in Issue 17 of The International Literary
Quarterly (http://www.interlitq.org/), which includes a selection of
translations by Peter France (Annensky, Baratynsky, Batyushkov, and
Lermontov).

All the best,
Olga Livshin

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From v.carvalhoferreira at GOOGLEMAIL.COM  Mon May 20 11:43:05 2013
From: v.carvalhoferreira at GOOGLEMAIL.COM (Vera Ferreira)
Date: Mon, 20 May 2013 12:43:05 +0100
Subject: Endangered Languages in Europe - Deadline for abstract submission
 (May 31st)
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CALL FOR ABSTRACTS:*Deadline: May 31st, 2013*

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ENDANGERED LANGUAGES IN EUROPE

DATE AND VENUE: October 17-18th, 2013 | Interdisciplinary Centre for 
Social and Language Documentation (CIDLeS), Minde, Portugal 
(http://www.cidles.eu/events/conference-ele-2013/)

ABOUT THE CONFERENCE
The Interdisciplinary Centre for Social and Language Documentation 
(CIDLeS) cordially invites scholars working on endangered languages in 
Europe and on Language Documentation to join us at the International 
Conference on Endangered Languages in Europe. The 2-day International 
Conference aims to improve the discussion about linguistic diversity in 
Europe and to provide an interdisciplinary forum in which scholars from 
Language Documentation, Language Technology and others working on 
European endangered languages can exchange ideas and techniques on 
language documentation, archiving, and revitalization and to reflect on 
language policy issues. The second day of the Conference will have two 
special panels: one focussing on the endangered languages in the Iberian 
Peninsula and another one, a round table, dedicated to the theme "new 
speakers of minority/endangered languages".

PLENARY SPEAKERS
Ulrike Mosel (University of Kiel)
Mandana Seyfeddinipur (School of Oriental and African Studies)
Sebastian Drude (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen)
Fernando Ramallo (University of Vigo)

SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE
Xosé Afonso Álvarez Pérez (University of Lisbon)
Michael Cysouw (University of Marburg)
Annette Endruschat (University of Regensburg)
Geoffrey Haig (University of Bamberg)
Johannes Helmbrecht (University of Regensburg)
Nikolaus Himmelmann (University of Cologne)
Lachlan Mackenzie(ILTEC, Lisbon)
Peter-Arnold Mumm (University of Munich)
Wolfgang Schulze (University of Munich)
Frank Seifart (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology Leipzig)

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Vera Ferreira
Peter Bouda
António Lopes
Francisco Vicente
Rita Pedro
Ingrid Scholz
Paulo Vicente

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS
Abstracts are invited for papers on the following areas:European 
endangered language varieties,Endangered languages in the Iberian 
Peninsula,Language Documentation,Language 
Technologies,Archiving,Revitalization,Multilingualism, New speakers, 
Language policy.

Abstracts should be no longer than a DIN-A4 page, with references. 
Please send your abstract toele2013 at cidles.eu <mailto:ele2013 at cidles.eu>.

Online Registration: http://ele2013.eventbrite.com/
For more information please contact ele2013 at cidles.eu 
<mailto:ele2013 at cidles.eu>.

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From Alexandra.Smith at ED.AC.UK  Mon May 20 17:41:50 2013
From: Alexandra.Smith at ED.AC.UK (Alexandra Smith)
Date: Mon, 20 May 2013 18:41:50 +0100
Subject: Responses to Balabanov's death
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Dear Colleagues,

Those of you who are teaching Post-Soviet Cinema, might be interested  
in reading
several interesting responses to Balabanov's death (he passed away on  
18 May 2013):
http://www.kommersant.ru/pda/kommersant.html?id=2192541
http://www.kommersant.ru/doc/2192354
http://www.bbc.co.uk/russian/russia/2013/05/130518_russia_balabanov_obit.shtml
http://ru.delfi.lt/misc/culture/balabanov-ispovedalsya-v-svoem-poslednem-filme-ya-tozhe-hochu.d?id=61427265
http://www.svoboda.org/content/article/24990207.html

All best,
Alexandra









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Reader in Russian Studies
Department of European Languages and Cultures
School of  Languages, Literatures and Cultures
The University of Edinburgh
David Hume Tower
George Square
Edinburgh EH8 9JX
UK

tel. +44-(0)131-6511381
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From nataliek at UALBERTA.CA  Tue May 21 02:39:47 2013
From: nataliek at UALBERTA.CA (Natalie Kononenko)
Date: Mon, 20 May 2013 20:39:47 -0600
Subject: Ukrainian Folklore Audio update
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Dear SEELANG folks,

Just wanted to give you an update on our website.  Since I last wrote, we
have had quite a few contributions to our site.  Our wonderful volunteers
have done transcriptions and translations of many more folk songs,
including songs recorded among Ukrainians in Kazakhstan.  We have 43 songs
transcribed and translated.  This is not including the songs from
Kazakhstan. 6 of those have been done.

We now have a category we did not have before.  Thanks to Myroslava Uniat
and some prolific anonymous contributors, we have transcriptions and
translations of quite a few folktales.  7 of these have been both
transcribed and translated and there are some transcribed tales that await
your translations.

About the only category that has not been worked on is beliefs.

To view the materials available and to contribute, please go to:
http://research.artsrn.ualberta.ca/ukrfolklore/index.html

-- 
Natalie Kononenko
Kule Chair of Ukrainian Ethnography
University of Alberta
200 Arts Building
Edmonton AB Canada T6G 2E6
780-492-6810
http://www.arts.ualberta.ca/uvp/

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From natalia.pylypiuk at UALBERTA.CA  Tue May 21 04:07:40 2013
From: natalia.pylypiuk at UALBERTA.CA (Natalia Pylypiuk)
Date: Mon, 20 May 2013 22:07:40 -0600
Subject: The Oxford Critical and Cultural History of Modernist Magazines
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Dear Colleagues,

I draw your attention to the following publication:

Brooker, Peter. The Oxford Critical and Cultural History of Modernist Magazines: Volume III. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013

The first full study of the role of 'little magazines' and their contribution to the making of artistic modernism and the avant-garde across Europe, this volume is a major scholarly achievement of immense value to those interested in material culture of the twentieth century. 

Ukrainian magazines are discussed by Oleh S. Ilnytzkyj in Volume III, Part II, under the title  "FROM UNDER IMPERIAL EYES IN KYIV AND KHARKIV MAGAZINES." This chapter explores Ukrains’ka khata (1909–14); Muzahet (1919); Mystetstvo (1919); Katafalk iskusstva (1922); Semafor u maibutnie (1922); Honh komunkul’ta (1924); Nova generatsiia (1927–30); and Avangard: Al’manakh proletars’kykh myttsiv Novoi generatsii (1930). 

For more detail, please visit
http://www.artsrn.ualberta.ca/ukraina/news/news___events/33/

Best wishes,
Natalia Pylypiuk

Natalia Pylypiuk, PhD, Professor
Ukrainian Culture, Language & Literature Program
[ www.artsrn.ualberta.ca/ukraina/ ] 
Modern Languages & Cultural Studies, University of Alberta
President of the Canadian Association for Ukrainian Studies






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From n.bermel at SHEFFIELD.AC.UK  Tue May 21 08:22:12 2013
From: n.bermel at SHEFFIELD.AC.UK (Neil H Bermel)
Date: Tue, 21 May 2013 09:22:12 +0100
Subject: PhD scholarship in folklore and literature of the Caucasus:
 University of Sheffield
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Dear colleagues,

Thanks to a generous donation, the Department of Russian and Slavonic
Studies at the University of Sheffield  invites applications for a
fully-funded PhD scholarship dedicated to the folklore and literature of
the Caucasus region. Proposals may pertain to the folklore and literature
itself, the history of scholarship on the question, and the role they have
played in the formation of social and cultural identity. Fluency in Russian
language is essential, and knowledge of one Caucasian language would be an
advantage.

The scholarship includes all University fees, a grant for living expenses
and funds for approved research expenses. Potential applicants are
encouraged to contact Professor Craig Brandist
c.s.brandist at sheffield.ac.ukto discuss possible projects.  In the
first round of selection we will
require a cv, a research proposal of c.400 words, and a covering letter
explaining your interest. These should reach Professor Brandist by 30 June
2013.

Best regards,

Neil

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Professor of Russian & Slavonic Studies
Head, School of Languages and Cultures (formerly SOMLAL)
University of Sheffield
Jessop West, Sheffield S3 7RA U.K.
tel. +44 (0)114 222 7405

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From kyelenak at GMAIL.COM  Tue May 21 08:43:38 2013
From: kyelenak at GMAIL.COM (yelena kalinsky)
Date: Tue, 21 May 2013 04:43:38 -0400
Subject: Contacts for Felix Philipp Ingold
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Dear SEELANGSers,

I am trying to get in touch with Felix Philipp Ingold. If anybody know a
way that he can be reached, I'd be most grateful.

Thanks in advance,

Yelena Kalinsky

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From rr423 at CAM.AC.UK  Tue May 21 08:44:37 2013
From: rr423 at CAM.AC.UK (Rebecca Reich)
Date: Tue, 21 May 2013 09:44:37 +0100
Subject: Songs About Psychiatry
Message-ID: <TUE.21.MAY.2013.094437.0100.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.UA.EDU>

Dear Colleagues,

I am looking for Russian songs that are set in psychiatric hospitals or
that touch on psychiatric themes along the lines of Aleksandr Galich's
"Pravo na otdykh" or Vladimir Vysotsky's "S Kanatchikovoi dachi." I'm
primarily looking for Soviet-era songs, though if you have pre-Soviet or
post-Soviet suggestions, I would be grateful for those too. Please reply
offline.

Best,
Rebecca Reich

-- 
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Lecturer in Russian Literature and Culture
University of Cambridge
rr423 at cam.ac.uk

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From colkitto at ROGERS.COM  Tue May 21 13:19:25 2013
From: colkitto at ROGERS.COM (Robert Orr)
Date: Tue, 21 May 2013 09:19:25 -0400
Subject: I'm forwarding this to the list mainly because of the last
 paragraph, which I've cited
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http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/our-american-pravda/

 

"Consider the fascinating perspective of the recently deceased Boris
Berezovsky, once the most powerful of the Russian oligarchs and the puppet
master behind President Boris Yeltsin during the late 1990s. After looting
billions in national wealth and elevating Vladimir Putin to the presidency,
he overreached himself and eventually went into exile. According to the New
York Times, he had planned to transform Russia into a fake two-party
state-one social-democratic and one neoconservative-in which heated public
battles would be fought on divisive, symbolic issues, while behind the
scenes both parties would actually be controlled by the same ruling elites.
With the citizenry thus permanently divided and popular dissatisfaction
safely channeled into meaningless dead-ends, Russia's rulers could maintain
unlimited wealth and power for themselves, with little threat to their
reign. Given America's history over the last couple of decades, perhaps we
can guess where Berezovsky got his idea for such a clever political scheme."

 

Probably referring to this article, or similar ones:

 

http://latitude.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/03/25/till-death-berezovsky-defends-b
acking-putin/

 

And this sort of thing affected Canada as well.  Apparently Gorbachev
listened avidly to his friend Aleksandr Yakovlev, ambassador to Canada while
Trudeaupia was in full swing, who painted a picture of a one-party state,
with one of the highest living standards in the Western World ..

 


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From thysentinel at HOTMAIL.COM  Tue May 21 12:31:33 2013
From: thysentinel at HOTMAIL.COM (Sentinel76 Astrakhan)
Date: Tue, 21 May 2013 12:31:33 +0000
Subject: Songs About Psychiatry
In-Reply-To: <CADT8yQ_HVx9gEnTK5uSthcNKbNb0Qb3nOweT6A+1QMSKuYCDRQ@mail.gmail.com>
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Off the top of my head:
 
Владимир Высоцкий "Диагноз" (На стене висели в рамках...)
Владимир Высоцкий "О Сумасшедшем Доме" (Сказал себе я...)
Владимир Высоцкий "Жертва Телевидения" (Есть телевизор -- подайте трибуну...)
Александр Башлачев "Палата 6" (Хотел в Алма-Ату...)
Алиса "О Сумашедшем Доме" (Я пою о сумасшедшем доме...)
Алиса "День Открытых Дверей" (В нашем сумасшедшем доме...)

 
Date: Tue, 21 May 2013 09:44:37 +0100
From: rr423 at CAM.AC.UK
Subject: [SEELANGS] Songs About Psychiatry
To: SEELANGS at LISTSERV.UA.EDU

Dear Colleagues,

I am looking for Russian songs that are set in 
psychiatric hospitals or that touch on psychiatric themes along the 
lines of Aleksandr Galich's "Pravo na otdykh" or Vladimir Vysotsky's "S Kanatchikovoi dachi." I'm primarily looking for Soviet-era songs, though if you have pre-Soviet or 
post-Soviet suggestions, I would be grateful for those too. Please reply
 offline.


Best,
Rebecca Reich
-- 
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Lecturer in Russian Literature and Culture

University of Cambridgerr423 at cam.ac.uk


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From rrobin at EMAIL.GWU.EDU  Tue May 21 13:30:45 2013
From: rrobin at EMAIL.GWU.EDU (Richard Robin)
Date: Tue, 21 May 2013 09:30:45 -0400
Subject: I'm forwarding this to the list mainly because of the last
 paragraph, which I've cited
In-Reply-To: <CAOaVmik8xDZOZfFFsAc9uhheHYXB1uYNfdoRtFFDbgRN8hgTNg@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <TUE.21.MAY.2013.093045.0400.>

Sounds to me like Berezovsky was inspired not by anything in the U.S. but
by Pelevin's Generation P.

-Richard Robin\

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Director Russian Language Program
The George Washington University
Washington, DC 20052
202-994-7081
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Russkiy tekst v UTF-8

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From psyling at YMAIL.COM  Tue May 21 15:32:19 2013
From: psyling at YMAIL.COM (Psy Ling)
Date: Tue, 21 May 2013 08:32:19 -0700
Subject: Songs About Psychiatry
In-Reply-To: <CADT8yQ_HVx9gEnTK5uSthcNKbNb0Qb3nOweT6A+1QMSKuYCDRQ@mail.gmail.com>
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http://muzebra.com/search/?q=про+психушку

 
Psy Ling


>________________________________
> From: Rebecca Reich <rr423 at CAM.AC.UK>
>To: SEELANGS at LISTSERV.UA.EDU 
>Sent: Tuesday, May 21, 2013 4:44:37 AM
>Subject: [SEELANGS] Songs About Psychiatry
> 
>
>
>Dear Colleagues,
>
>I am looking for Russian songs that are set in 
psychiatric hospitals or that touch on psychiatric themes along the 
lines of Aleksandr Galich's "Pravo na otdykh" or Vladimir Vysotsky's "S Kanatchikovoi dachi." I'm primarily looking for Soviet-era songs, though if you have pre-Soviet or 
post-Soviet suggestions, I would be grateful for those too. Please reply
 offline.
>
>Best,
>Rebecca Reich
>
>-- 
>Rebecca Reich
>Lecturer in Russian Literature and Culture
>University of Cambridge
>rr423 at cam.ac.uk
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From maksympopelyshrosochynsky2013 at U.NORTHWESTERN.EDU  Tue May 21 18:04:29 2013
From: maksympopelyshrosochynsky2013 at U.NORTHWESTERN.EDU (Max Rosochynsky)
Date: Tue, 21 May 2013 13:04:29 -0500
Subject: Songs About Psychiatry
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5'nizza (Бабкин) "Белые рубашки"
Сергей Бабкин, "Шизофрения",
Группа Ноль "Человей и Кошка", (and other 'наркомано-шизофренические" songs)
Кино (Виктор Цой) "Алюминиевые Огурцы"
Александр Розенбаум "Вялотекущая Шизофрения"
Егор Летов, "Про Дурачка"
Егор Летов, "Красный смех гуляет по стране",
Егор Летов, "Плюшевый Мишутка"
Everything by Egor Letov, esp. if schizophrenia is understood as a mode
of discourse, rather than just a theme.
Аквариум, "Я Шизо",
Звуки Му, "Муха источник заразы



On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 3:44 AM, Rebecca Reich <rr423 at cam.ac.uk> wrote:

> Dear Colleagues,
>
> I am looking for Russian songs that are set in psychiatric hospitals or
> that touch on psychiatric themes along the lines of Aleksandr Galich's
> "Pravo na otdykh" or Vladimir Vysotsky's "S Kanatchikovoi dachi." I'm
> primarily looking for Soviet-era songs, though if you have pre-Soviet or
> post-Soviet suggestions, I would be grateful for those too. Please reply
> offline.
>
> Best,
> Rebecca Reich
>
> --
> Rebecca Reich
> Lecturer in Russian Literature and Culture
> University of Cambridge
> rr423 at cam.ac.uk
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From aisrael at AMERICAN.EDU  Tue May 21 19:39:43 2013
From: aisrael at AMERICAN.EDU (Alina Israeli)
Date: Tue, 21 May 2013 15:39:43 -0400
Subject: Songs About Psychiatry
In-Reply-To: <1369150339.22535.YahooMailNeo@web160605.mail.bf1.yahoo.com>
Message-ID: <TUE.21.MAY.2013.153943.0400.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.UA.EDU>

Розенбаум. "Что‒то здесь не так"   http://www.youtu 
be.com/watch?v=uVdkN4d-WpQ
Галич. А у психов жизнь, так бы жил любой. http://video.mail.r 
u/mail/elena_runet/405/608.html


Alina Israeli
Associate Professor of Russian
WLC, American University
4400 Massachusetts Ave.
Washington DC 20016
(202) 885-2387 	fax (202) 885-1076
aisrael at american.edu






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From gavrnata at GMAIL.COM  Wed May 22 03:14:15 2013
From: gavrnata at GMAIL.COM (Nataliya Gavrilova)
Date: Tue, 21 May 2013 23:14:15 -0400
Subject: Songs About Psychiatry
In-Reply-To: <CADT8yQ_HVx9gEnTK5uSthcNKbNb0Qb3nOweT6A+1QMSKuYCDRQ@mail.gmail.com>
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Рабфак, "Наш дурдом голосует за Путинаю"

On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 4:44 AM, Rebecca Reich <rr423 at cam.ac.uk> wrote:
> Dear Colleagues,
>
> I am looking for Russian songs that are set in psychiatric hospitals or that
> touch on psychiatric themes along the lines of Aleksandr Galich's "Pravo na
> otdykh" or Vladimir Vysotsky's "S Kanatchikovoi dachi." I'm primarily
> looking for Soviet-era songs, though if you have pre-Soviet or post-Soviet
> suggestions, I would be grateful for those too. Please reply offline.
>
> Best,
> Rebecca Reich
>
> --
> Rebecca Reich
> Lecturer in Russian Literature and Culture
> University of Cambridge
> rr423 at cam.ac.uk
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From dotoiu at ULB.AC.BE  Wed May 22 12:34:59 2013
From: dotoiu at ULB.AC.BE (Damiana-Gabriela Otoiu)
Date: Wed, 22 May 2013 14:34:59 +0200
Subject: CfA: "Currents of faith, places of history", 3 PhD Scholarships,
 1 Postdoc position
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CALL FOR APPLICATIONS - 3 PhD Scholarships, 1 Postdoc position 

Joint Research Programme: Currents of faith, places of history: religious diasporas, connections, moral circumscriptions and world-making in the Atlantic space 

Starting date: October 1st, 2013 

Duration: 3 years (36 months), fulltime for PhD-projects, part-time for postdoc-project 

The JRP Currents of faith, places of history: religious diasporas, connections, moral circumscriptions and world-making in the Atlantic space, coordinated by Ruy Blanes (ICS Lisbon, Univ. Bergen) with Birgit Meyer (Utrecht U.), David Berliner (Univ. Libre de Bruxelles) and Ramon Sarró (Univ. Oxford), is an international HERA-funded Joint Research Project that brings together a multidisciplinary team of scholars. The central foci of this program are the interconnections between religion, mobility, place and heritage in the Atlantic space. We aim to rethink theories of Atlantic history by exploring three dimensions of ‘religious diasporas’: connections, moral circumscriptions and world-making. 

Based on a partnership between universities in Portugal, Belgium, Netherlands, Norway and the UK, the program brings together a team of senior and junior scholars. Combining problems and methodologies sprung from social anthropology, history and religious studies, we seek to synthesize an empirical ethnographic methodology with a historical-comparative approach so as to explore ‘meaningful histories’ in their cultural and religious manifestations. 

The CURRENTS JRP is offering 3 PhD positions for students interested in conducting field research and writing PhD theses on the topics under focus. Next to this, it offers one postdoc position. PhD-project 1 will be located at the Institute of Social Sciences of the University of Lisbon, Portugal, under the research theme Encounters, Historical Acknowledgements and Moral Landscapes Across the Atlantic (chaired by Ruy Blanes). More specifically, s/he will conduct research on "grassroots prophetism, political interventions and territorial heritagizations in contemporary South America". For more information, contact Ruy Blanes (ruy.blanes at gmail.com). 

PhD-project 2 will be located at the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology of the University of Oxford, UK, under the research theme A King in the Atlantic: Centripetal and Centrifugal Forces in the Making of a Kongo Heritage. S/he will conduct research on how the historical connections between the Kindgom of Kongo and the South American continent, which started with the Atlantic slave trade, are remembered and recreated in today’s Brazil, a country today discovering and reassessing its African heritage. For more information, contact Ramon Sarró (ramon.sarro at anthro.ox.ac.uk) or visit http://www.anthro.ox.ac.uk/prospective-students/funding/ahrc/#c9787. 

PhD-project 3 will be located at the Laboratoire d’Anthropologie des Mondes Contemporains, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium, under the research theme Slave Trade Transatlantic Heritagescapes. Reconnections and World- Making in Guinea-Conakry and the Mexican Gulf. More specifically, s/he will conduct research on "Heritagized religious traditions in the Mexican Gulf / Caribbean". For more information, contact David Berliner (David.Berliner at ulb.ac.be). 

The postdoc-project (part-time) will be located at the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, Utrecht University, The Netherlands, under the research theme Atlantic spirits. Religion, Heritage, and the Making of the Atlantic World through Winti and Candomblé (chaired by Birgit Meyer). The research project will focus on “Candomblé in Brazil”. For more information, contact Birgit Meyer (b.meyer at uu.nl). 

The 3 PhD students and the postdoc will conduct field research in different locations. They will be based in their respective host institution, and will be supervised by the project’s Principal Investigator in that institution. They will be expected, however, to actively engage in JRP meetings, intellectual exchanges, and academic events bringing the entire international team together. Applicants should therefore be enthusiastic, well motivated and able to work independently and as part of a collaborative research team. 

Applicants are expected to hold a very good MA, MSc, or MPhil degree in anthropology or a cognate field by the start of the three-year project. The post-doc will have completed a PhD dissertation in anthropology, religious studies or a cognate field by the start of the three-year project. Fieldwork experience and familiarity with ethnographic research methods will be highly valued. Relevant research experience in one of the contexts or topics of the Joint Research Project will be particularly advantageous. 

Informal enquiries about the overall Joint Research Project should be addressed to ruy.blanes at gmail.com. Please contact each chair for specific instructions on applications. 

Applicants interested in either of these four positions will need to send the respective chair a personal statement indicating why they think they are particularly well prepared to undertake this research, a short research proposal, letters of recommendation (two or three, depending on the University they are applying for) and a sample of written work. Furthermore they will need to satisfy the criteria for acceptance to the PhD programmes of each of the universities involved. They will need to complete the respective application forms available on the links provided by each chair upon initial contact. 

Deadline: Friday 21 June 2013 (noon). 

Shortlisted candidates may be invited for an interview. 
Damiana Otoiu
Visiting Fellow, European Institute  | LSEE Research on SEE
London School of Economics and Political Science

50, Lincoln's Inn Fields, Portsmouth Street
1st Floor, Room 50L 1.03
Ph.: 0044 (0) 78 4504 1229 
E-mail: damiana.otoiu at fspub.unibuc.ro, D.Otoiu at lse.ac.uk

URL: http://www.cevipol.site.ulb.ac.be/fr/membres_otoiu-damianagabriela.html
http://www2.lse.ac.uk/europeanInstitute/research/LSEE/Whos_who/VisitingFellows.aspx

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From resco at UMICH.EDU  Wed May 22 12:36:24 2013
From: resco at UMICH.EDU (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Alina_Makin?=)
Date: Wed, 22 May 2013 07:36:24 -0500
Subject: Songs About Psychiatry
Message-ID: <WED.22.MAY.2013.073624.0500.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.UA.EDU>

"Дурдом", группа "Мурзилки" (http://masteroff.org/54130.html
"Я работаю в дурдоме", группа "Вася Ложкин Рокындроль Бэнд" 
"Не думай о дурдоме свысока", Александр Дольский http://www.dolsky.ru/show_arhive.php?id=241


Alina Makin

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From tkuzmic at AUSTIN.UTEXAS.EDU  Wed May 22 16:25:50 2013
From: tkuzmic at AUSTIN.UTEXAS.EDU (Tatiana Kuzmic)
Date: Wed, 22 May 2013 11:25:50 -0500
Subject: Reminder: "Food for Thought" conference at UT Austin
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*Call *for* Papers*

* *

*Food for Thought*

*Culture and Cuisine in Russia and Eastern Europe  1800-the present  ***

* *

Symposium at the University of Texas – February 7-8,  2014



The Department of Slavic and Eurasian Studies in cooperation with the
Department of History and the Center for European Studies at the University
of Texas at Austin are hosting a one-two day symposium on the culture of
food in the Russian Empire (and Soviet Union) and its successor states as
well as “Eastern Europe” broadly defined. Drawing on a wide range of
sources and disciplines, speakers will explore how patterns of food
cultivation,
preparation, and consumption are embedded in local, national, and
trans-national cultural configurations. Scholars from all disciplines are
welcome to apply, but organizers especially welcome contributions from
history, literary and cultural (including film and media) studies, and
anthropology. We hope to reexamine the history and culture of the region
through the lens of its food—that is, cultural attitudes, marketing and
packaging, memories and representations of particular foods, patterns of
eating, cultural dietary restrictions, or local cultural difference that
were expressed through divergent patterns of food preparation and
consumption. How was food as “tradition” experienced, how was its
cultivation and production gendered, how was it tied to religious or ethnic
differentiation, in what ways was it processed, “packaged” or otherwise
modernized—for example, tied to global patterns and flows.  How was it tied
to private and public socialization—the kitchen versus the restaurant or
cafeteria and what did this mean for local or national cultures? How was
food depicted in film and literature, described in cookbooks, marketed at
home and abroad?



*Featuring Dr. Ronald LeBlanc* as Keynote Speaker

“From Russian Vegetarians to Soviet Hamburgers: Tolstoy, Mikoyan, and the
Ethics/Politics of Diet.”

Ronald D. LeBlanc is Professor of Russian and Humanities at the University
of New Hampshire and Center Associate at the Davis Center for Russian and
Eurasian Studies at Harvard University.  The author of "Slavic Sins of the
Flesh: Food, Sex, and Carnal Appetite in Nineteenth-Century Russian
Fiction" (2009), Professor LeBlanc has written numerous “gastrocritical”
studies on food and eating in the works of such writers as Tolstoy,
Dostoevsky, Gogol, Goncharov, Bulgakov, and Olesha.



*Co-organizers:*

*Mary Neuburger*

University of Texas

Department of History

burgerm at austin.utexas.edu



*Keith Livers*

University of Texas

Department of Slavic and Eurasian Studies

*kalivers at austin.utexas.edu*

* *

*Tatiana Kuzmic*

University of Texas

Department of Slavic and Eurasian Studies

*tkuzmic at austin.utexas.edu <tkuzmic at ausitn.utexas.edu>*

* *

* *

*Please submit the following by May 30, 2013 to burgerm at austin.utexas.edu  :
*

* *

*1) Title*

*2)  One paragraph abstract*

*3)  3 page cv*

*4)  Request for funding.  – Specify requested dollar amount, and whether
participation is contingent on funding.*

* *

*Limited funds are available for travel and accommodation costs. We will
try to partially (or in some cases completely) fund as many speakers as
possible, but we ask that participants also draw on their own conference
funds if possible.*


-- 
Tatiana Kuzmic
Assistant Professor
Department of Slavic and Eurasian Studies
The University of Texas at Austin

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From mgapotchenko at GMAIL.COM  Thu May 23 02:16:12 2013
From: mgapotchenko at GMAIL.COM (Maria Gapotchenko)
Date: Wed, 22 May 2013 22:16:12 -0400
Subject: Inquiry about "chervontsy"
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Dear colleagues,

A friend in a comp. lit. department has sent me this inquiry. If any of you
can shed light on the mysteries of "chervontsy" in the 1930s, please email
me at mgapotchenko at gmail.com.

Thanks!
Maria

____________________________________________________________

I'm trying to figure something out about the 1937 chervonets issue with
Lenin on the obverse...I understand that initially chervontsy were intended
to be a stable alternative to the volatile ruble, but then at what point
did they become notoriously unstable enough for Bulgakov to poke fun at
them?  Also, could you possibly translate the language on the banknote (see
link) that attests to the state bank's backing of the currency?  My theory
is that Lenin's face appears in order to compensate a deficit in
credibility caused by a shift from what was supposed to be a gold-standard
currency (but, I understand, never quite was) to a currency backed by
not-necessarily-gold "bank assets."  What does the bill in fact say?  And
do you know any reputable historical work that explains all this?

 http://russianmoney.info/USSR/1937ch/295<https://xmail.bu.edu/owa/redir.aspx?C=d20c554bbab64a01bedeeae637909da1&URL=http%3a%2f%2frussianmoney.info%2fUSSR%2f1937ch%2f295>

 & see the note up top on this page:

 http://russianmoney.info/USSR/1937ch/<https://xmail.bu.edu/owa/redir.aspx?C=d20c554bbab64a01bedeeae637909da1&URL=http%3a%2f%2frussianmoney.info%2fUSSR%2f1937ch%2f>

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From enthorsen at GMAIL.COM  Wed May 22 22:16:52 2013
From: enthorsen at GMAIL.COM (Elise Thorsen)
Date: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:16:52 -0400
Subject: TOC: Studies in Slavic Cultures XI: Everyday Life
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On behalf of the editors of *Studies in Slavic Cultures*, I am pleased to
announce that the journal’s eleventh issue, on the theme of “Everyday
Life,” is now available. More information can be found on-line at <
www.pitt.edu/~slavic/sisc <http://www.pitt.edu/%7Eslavic/sisc>>, or by
e-mail to the editors at sisc at pitt.edu.



The following articles are available in “Everyday Life”:



Terri Van Orman (Goucher College): “The Role of Symbolic Clothing in
Ukrainian Gender and Power”



Andrew Chapman (University of Pittsburgh): “Trofeinost′ and the
Phantasmagoria of Everyday Consumption in Late Soviet Culture”



Cassio de Oliveira (Yale University) : “‘As if in Search of a Happy Human
Life’: Personal Life in High Stalinism in Yuri German’s ‘Lapshin’”



Justine Gill (University of Alberta): “The Performativity and Importance of
Women’s Byt in Smirnova’s ‘Narodnyi roman’”



Outstanding orders of *SISC* X: “Postmodernism” and *SISC* XI: “Everyday
Life” will be mailed in the coming two weeks.

The editors of *SISC* XII currently invite inquiries and submissions
pertaining to the theme of “Pop and Propaganda” at sisc at pitt.edu, with a
deadline of May 31.  The



Best wishes,

Elise Thorsen



-- 
Elise Thorsen
Ph.D. Student, University of Pittsburgh
Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
1417 Cathedral of Learning
Pittsburgh, PA 15260

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From zimberg.alexis at GMAIL.COM  Thu May 23 14:24:51 2013
From: zimberg.alexis at GMAIL.COM (Alexis Zimberg)
Date: Thu, 23 May 2013 10:24:51 -0400
Subject: Russian Soul
Message-ID: <THU.23.MAY.2013.102451.0400.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.UA.EDU>

Dear SEELANGS community,

In Hebrew, the word Neshama refers to the Jewish soul. My question for the community is whether there is a Russian word or phrase that encompasses the idea of a 'Russian Soul (other than rysskaia dusha),' especially as it so often comes up in discussions of literature and national identity.

A Slavic soul? An Eastern European spirit? Even better if there is something so nuanced as the 'cloaked Russian soul,' the 'hearty Russian soul,' or the 'proud Russian soul.' 

Thank you in advance for your insights. I intend no offense by my question and realize that the act of generalizing a nation in one word or phrase is contentious. 

Kind regards,

Alexis Zimberg
Post-Soviet Graffiti
www.PostSovietGraffiti.com


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From toastormulch at GMAIL.COM  Thu May 23 15:39:55 2013
From: toastormulch at GMAIL.COM (Mark Yoffe)
Date: Thu, 23 May 2013 11:39:55 -0400
Subject: Russian Soul
In-Reply-To: <A2D5AE5C-2FD8-45E1-84A4-3F42E08793A4@gmail.com>
Message-ID: <THU.23.MAY.2013.113955.0400.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.UA.EDU>

Russkii dukh (русский дух) -- Russian spirit (Refers to both ethnic
spiritual tradition, steadfastness of it, and to... smell, though
metaphorically).

MY


On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 10:24 AM, Alexis Zimberg
<zimberg.alexis at gmail.com>wrote:

> Dear SEELANGS community,
>
> In Hebrew, the word Neshama refers to the Jewish soul. My question for the
> community is whether there is a Russian word or phrase that encompasses the
> idea of a 'Russian Soul (other than rysskaia dusha),' especially as it so
> often comes up in discussions of literature and national identity.
>
> A Slavic soul? An Eastern European spirit? Even better if there is
> something so nuanced as the 'cloaked Russian soul,' the 'hearty Russian
> soul,' or the 'proud Russian soul.'
>
> Thank you in advance for your insights. I intend no offense by my question
> and realize that the act of generalizing a nation in one word or phrase is
> contentious.
>
> Kind regards,
>
> *Alexis Zimberg*
> Post-Soviet Graffiti
> www.PostSovietGraffiti.com
>
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From obukhina at ACLS.ORG  Thu May 23 15:41:13 2013
From: obukhina at ACLS.ORG (Olga Bukhina)
Date: Thu, 23 May 2013 15:41:13 +0000
Subject: A new issue of "The Bridge/MOCT," the newsletter of the
 International Association for the Humanities (IAH)
Message-ID: <THU.23.MAY.2013.154113.0000.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.UA.EDU>

A new issue of "The Bridge/MOCT," the newsletter of the International Association for the Humanities (IAH), is out (Vol. 2.4, 2013). The issue features a tribute to Victor Zhivov, including an interview taken shortly before he passed away. This issue also includes commentaries on the 1863 uprising debate in Belarus; an extended interview on the new Ukrainian journal of social criticism "Спiльне/Соmmons," and more. "The Bridge/MOCT" is available online: http://thebridge-moct.org/ Follow us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheBridgeMoct.

Olga Bukhina
Executive Director
International Association for the Humanities (IAH),

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From ksenia.kologrieva at GMAIL.COM  Thu May 23 15:46:09 2013
From: ksenia.kologrieva at GMAIL.COM (Ksenia Kologrieva)
Date: Thu, 23 May 2013 10:46:09 -0500
Subject: Russian Soul
In-Reply-To: <A2D5AE5C-2FD8-45E1-84A4-3F42E08793A4@gmail.com>
Message-ID: <THU.23.MAY.2013.104609.0500.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.UA.EDU>

Alexis,

It's usually *широкая* русская душа.

*Best regards,*
*Ksenia Kologrieva*

Cloudberry Language School

Phone: 773-942-6262

www.cloudberrylanguageschool.com

Find a Common Language!


On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 9:24 AM, Alexis Zimberg <zimberg.alexis at gmail.com>wrote:

> Dear SEELANGS community,
>
> In Hebrew, the word Neshama refers to the Jewish soul. My question for the
> community is whether there is a Russian word or phrase that encompasses the
> idea of a 'Russian Soul (other than rysskaia dusha),' especially as it so
> often comes up in discussions of literature and national identity.
>
> A Slavic soul? An Eastern European spirit? Even better if there is
> something so nuanced as the 'cloaked Russian soul,' the 'hearty Russian
> soul,' or the 'proud Russian soul.'
>
> Thank you in advance for your insights. I intend no offense by my question
> and realize that the act of generalizing a nation in one word or phrase is
> contentious.
>
> Kind regards,
>
> *Alexis Zimberg*
> Post-Soviet Graffiti
> www.PostSovietGraffiti.com
>
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From kristin.romberg at GMAIL.COM  Thu May 23 18:46:18 2013
From: kristin.romberg at GMAIL.COM (Kristin Romberg)
Date: Thu, 23 May 2013 14:46:18 -0400
Subject: CFP: "Decentering Art of the Former East" (CAA Chicago 12-15 Feb
 2014)
Message-ID: <THU.23.MAY.2013.144618.0400.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.UA.EDU>

CAA Annual Conference, Chicago, February 12-14, 2014
Deadline for Proposals: August 1, 2013

Call for Papers:
Decentering Art of the Former East

Session sponsored by the Society of Historians of East European, 
Eurasian, and Russian Art and Architecture (SHERA)

Panel co-chairs: Masha Chlenova, The Museum of Modern Art; and Kristin 
Romberg, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Whether conceptualized in terms of a periphery or an alternative center, 
narratives of Russian and Eastern European art have long been organized 
around a binary of East and West, shaped both by art history's 
disciplinary biases and by the politics of the Cold War and "fall of 
communism." This panel takes Partha Mitter's argument in "Decentering 
Modernism" (2008) as a point of departure in order to rethink how art of 
these regions can be understood in an increasingly global art history. 
Can we find ways of rereading the default evaluation that western 
references to the Russian avant-garde's monochromes and constructions 
are art-historically savvy, while Russian and Eastern European 
references to internationally known practices are derivative? What is 
the difference between naïve appropriation and creative misreading, and 
to what extent are these procedures also fundamental to the work of 
stably central figures of Western European and North American art? How 
do Byzantine and Eurasian histories and forms ground or inflect these 
artistic formations? Can the widespread opposition between a western 
artistic center and eastern periphery be productively undermined not 
through the lens of nationalism but through that of global modernism and 
art history? What do the critical lenses developed in the process of 
working on Russian and Eastern European topics reveal about western art, 
global art, or art history as a discipline? How do we interpret these 
practices in ways that are not just specific, but that also speak to and 
shape art-historical inquiry more generally? This panel seeks 
historically grounded case studies of Russian, Eastern European, and 
Eurasian art from any period that productively explore these issues.

Please send a paper title, abstract (200-300 words), and 2-page 
curriculum vitae to Masha Chlenova (masha_chlenova at moma.org) and Kristin 
Romberg (kristin.romberg at gmail.com) by August 1.

Note that panelists must join SHERA to participate, but do *not* need to 
be members of CAA or to register for the conference.

=======================================================

The Society of Historians of East European, Eurasian, and Russian Art 
and Architecture (SHERA) is an association of academics, librarians, 
museum workers, independent scholars, students, and other individuals 
who share an interest in the art and visual culture of Russia, the 
nations of the former Soviet Union, and Central and Eastern Europe. The 
Society seeks to improve research circumstances for scholars, connect 
members to necessary resources, provide a forum for ongoing 
conversations on areas of mutual interest, and foster contacts among 
members. SHERA runs a website and electronic listserv, and organizes 
sessions at scholarly conferences such as CAA and ASEEES.

=======================================================
SHERA
Margaret Samu, President
Natasha Kurchanova, Vice-President/President-Elect
Yelena Kalinsky, Secretary-Treasurer
Society of Historians of East European, Eurasian, and Russian Art and 
Architecture
SHERA.artarchitecture at gmail.com <mailto:SHERA.artarchitecture at gmail.com>
http://lists.oakland.edu/mailman/listinfo/shera

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From mtsmith02 at YSU.EDU  Fri May 24 02:09:27 2013
From: mtsmith02 at YSU.EDU (Melissa T Smith)
Date: Fri, 24 May 2013 02:09:27 +0000
Subject: Russian Soul
In-Reply-To: <CAHwP_r8Y6Gx65mE9knSaOcu=5y6OL3Sirgo-GW1fQ1JsesPuUw@mail.gmail.com>
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Загадочная русская душа is the expression that comes to my mind.

Melissa Smith
________________________________
From: SEELANGS: Slavic & East European Languages and Literatures list [SEELANGS at LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of Ksenia Kologrieva [ksenia.kologrieva at GMAIL.COM]
Sent: Thursday, May 23, 2013 11:46 AM
To: SEELANGS at LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] Russian Soul

Alexis,

It's usually широкая русская душа.

Best regards,
Ksenia Kologrieva

Cloudberry Language School

Phone: 773-942-6262

www.cloudberrylanguageschool.com<http://www.cloudberrylanguageschool.com>

Find a Common Language!



On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 9:24 AM, Alexis Zimberg <zimberg.alexis at gmail.com<mailto:zimberg.alexis at gmail.com>> wrote:
Dear SEELANGS community,

In Hebrew, the word Neshama refers to the Jewish soul. My question for the community is whether there is a Russian word or phrase that encompasses the idea of a 'Russian Soul (other than rysskaia dusha),' especially as it so often comes up in discussions of literature and national identity.

A Slavic soul? An Eastern European spirit? Even better if there is something so nuanced as the 'cloaked Russian soul,' the 'hearty Russian soul,' or the 'proud Russian soul.'

Thank you in advance for your insights. I intend no offense by my question and realize that the act of generalizing a nation in one word or phrase is contentious.

Kind regards,

Alexis Zimberg
Post-Soviet Graffiti
www.PostSovietGraffiti.com<http://www.PostSovietGraffiti.com>

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From ewb2 at CORNELL.EDU  Fri May 24 02:42:37 2013
From: ewb2 at CORNELL.EDU (E Wayles Browne)
Date: Fri, 24 May 2013 02:42:37 +0000
Subject: Russian Soul
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Russians sometimes (teasingly?) cite the expression in French: l'âme slave (and they even write it in Russian sometimes: ам слав or лям слав).

--
Wayles Browne, Prof. of Linguistics
Department of Linguistics
Morrill Hall 220, Cornell University
Ithaca, New York 14853, U.S.A.

tel. 607-255-0712 (o), 607-273-3009 (h)
fax 607-255-2044 (write FOR W. BROWNE)
e-mail ewb2 at cornell.edu
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Загадочная русская душа is the expression that comes to my mind.

Melissa Smith

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From darancourlaferriere at COMCAST.NET  Fri May 24 04:36:12 2013
From: darancourlaferriere at COMCAST.NET (Daniel Rancour-Laferriere)
Date: Thu, 23 May 2013 21:36:12 -0700
Subject: Russian Soul
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There are countless expressions, proverbs, anekdoty, etc. on the topic of "Russian soul," all treated in my books: The Slave Soul of Russia (1995), and Russian Nationalism (2000).  Both books were published in Russian as well as English (see items 11, 13, 15, and 17 at my web site - link given below - for complete bibliographic info as well as tables of contents).

With regards to the list,

Daniel R-L.

http://Rancour-Laferriere.com





On May 23, 2013, at 7:42 PM, E Wayles Browne wrote:

Russians sometimes (teasingly?) cite the expression in French: l'âme slave (and they even write it in Russian sometimes: ам слав or лям слав).

-- 
Wayles Browne, Prof. of Linguistics
Department of Linguistics
Morrill Hall 220, Cornell University
Ithaca, New York 14853, U.S.A.

tel. 607-255-0712 (o), 607-273-3009 (h)
fax 607-255-2044 (write FOR W. BROWNE)
e-mail ewb2 at cornell.edu 
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Sent: Thursday, May 23, 2013 10:09 PM
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Загадочная русская душа is the expression that comes to my mind.

Melissa Smith
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From dmitrys.kozlov at GMAIL.COM  Fri May 24 11:10:28 2013
From: dmitrys.kozlov at GMAIL.COM (Dmitry Kozlov)
Date: Fri, 24 May 2013 15:10:28 +0400
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From: Anna Isakova <aisakova at soclabo.org>
Date: 2013/5/24
Subject: Call for Papers_Laboratorium
To: Dmitry Kozlov <dmitrys.kozlov at gmail.com>


Dear authors,

below you can find the information about Laboratoum's Call for Papers which
has been announced recently.

Please feel free to disseminate this information and the text of CFP among
your colleagues, students, researchers and everyone who might be interested
in submitting an article manuscript to Laboratorium.

Thank you very much in advance.
We appreciate your contribution to the work of our journal.

Best regards,
Anna Isakova
managing editor of Laboratorium





Call for Papers

Laboratorium: Russian Review of Social Research invites submissions of
article manuscripts for publication. Laboratorium is a bilingual (Russian
and English) open-access journal; submissions undergo double-blind peer
review. The journal is published with the support of the Centre for
Independent Social Research (CISR), Saint Petersburg, Russia.

Laboratorium offers scholars from Russia and other countries an
international platform to publish results of their empirical studies across
social sciences. The journal’s focus is on historical, comparative,
cultural, and ethnographic sociology, but we are open to other approaches
and to contributions from neighboring disciplines, including anthropology,
social geography, sociolinguistics, and history. The main requirement for
all submitted texts is original empirical research grounded in relevant
theoretical debates and discussions.

While many of the articles we have published to date have focused on Russia
and countries in the postsocialist space, postsocialist focus is not a
requirement, and we are happy to expand our geographic scope, as long as
findings in submitted manuscripts have theoretical relevance beyond their
specific cases.

The journal is published three times a year in both print and online
versions. The journal does not charge any publication fees.

Information about the journal, its past issues, and guidelines for
submissions can be found on the journal’s website: http://www.soclabo.org/

Send inquiries about the journal and submissions to Anna Isakova
(aisakova[at]soclabo.org), managing editor.
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From sglebov at SMITH.EDU  Fri May 24 16:49:49 2013
From: sglebov at SMITH.EDU (Sergey Glebov)
Date: Fri, 24 May 2013 16:49:49 +0000
Subject: FTOC: Ab Imperio 1/2013: How Do We Understand Freedom Today? Free
 Interpretations and Predetermined Models
Message-ID: <FRI.24.MAY.2013.164949.0000.SGLEBOV@SMITH.EDU>

Ab Imperio editors are pleased to announce the release of the first 
issue of the journal in 2013. Ab Imperio current issues are available 
through Project Muse: 
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/ab_imperio/toc/imp.2013.1.html

Sergey Glebov

  Ab Imperio 1/2013: How Do We Understand Freedom Today? Free 
Interpretations and Predetermined Models
  I.   Methodology and Theory

>From the Editors The Alien Origins of Freedom

Quentin Skinner So, What Does Freedom Mean to Us? (A Genealogy of 
Liberty) Lecture at the University of New South Wales, August 30, 2012

Q&A Session after the Public Lecture of Quentin Skinner

Postscriptum: An Exchange with the Editors

  II. History

Benjamin W. Sawyer Shedding the White and Blue: American Migration and 
Soviet Dreams in the Era of the New Economic Policy

Martin Beisswenger Was Lev Gumilev a “Eurasianist?” A New Look at His 
Postwar Contacts with Petr Savitskii

Mark Lipovetsky The Poetics of ITR Discourse: In the 1960s and Today

Forum AI: Technologies of Bringing a “True” Freedom to the One-Sixth of 
the World: On Soviet Modernity, Progressivism, and Beyond (Discussing 
Mark Lipovetsky’s “The Poetics of ITR Discourse”)
Vladislav Zubok Humanism of “Zhivago’s Children” versus Progressivism of 
the ITRs

Maxim Waldstein On the “Liberal Mainstream” and Cultural Conservatism

Zinaida Vasilyeva The 1960s and the Development of Mass Culture: Notes 
on the Soviet Variant of Modernity

Benjamin Nathans Coming to Terms with Late Soviet Liberalism

Artemy Magun They Were Genuinely Liberal, Liberals of the Right

Pal Tamas Was the Soviet Engineer so Unique?

Jan Kubik On Variations of Soviet-Type Modernity: Why Poland Did Not 
Have Its Own ITR Progressives

Alaina Lemon Soviet Modernity in a Global Conversation: The Universe of 
Elite Progressors

Mark Lipovetsky Clarifying Positions

  IV.  Sociology, Anthropology, PoliticalScience

  Sevil Huseinova and Sergey Rumiantsev Due to a Change of Residence: 
Collective Interethnic Cooperation in the Situation of the Karabakh 
Conflict

VI.Newest Mythologies

Serguei Alex. Oushakine Remembering in Public: On the Affective 
Management of History

  VII.  1. Historiography

Alexander Pershái Feminist Linguistic Reform as a Resource of Belarusian 
Nationalism: The Case of “Feminization of the Belarusian Language”

2. Reviews

Serhii Plokhy, The Cossack Myth: History and Nationhood in the Ages of 
Empires (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012). 402 
rp., ills., maps. Index. ISBN: 978-1-107-02210-2. by Aleksandr Osipian

  Johanna Lilndbladh (Ed.), The Poetics of Memory in Post-Totalitarian 
Narration (=CFE Conference Papers Series No. 3) (Lund: The Centre for 
European Studies at Lund University, 2008). 201 pp. ISSN: 1654-2185. By 
Mikhail Nemtsev

  Thomas Sherlock, Historical Narratives in the Soviet Union And 
Post-Soviet Russia: Destroying the Settled Past, Creating an Uncertain 
Future (Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007). 280 pp. 
Bibliography. Index. ISBN: 978-1-4039-7450-1. By Marina Shabasova

Zenonas Norkus, Nepasiskelbusioji imperija. Lietuvos Didžioji 
Kunigaikštija lyginamosios istorinės imperijų sociologijos požiūriu 
(Vilnius: Aidai, 2009). 476 pp. ISBN: 978-9955-656-73-9. By Lidia 
Korczak

  O. V. Budnitskii. Den'gi russkoi emigratsii: kolchakovskoe zoloto. 
1918−1957. Moskva: Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie, 2008. 512 s. ISBN: 
978-5-86793-639-6. By Sergei Iarov

Paul R. Gregory and Norman Naimark (Eds.), The Lost Politburo 
Transcripts. From Collective Rule to Stalin’s Dictatorship (New Haven 
and London: Yale University Press, 2008). vii+ 271 pp. Bibliography. 
Index. [The Yale-Hoover Series on Stalin, Stalinism, and the Cold War]. 
ISBN: 978-0-300-13424-7. By Elidor Mehilli

  Aftandil S. Erkinov, The Andijan Uprising of 1898 and Its Leader Dukchi 
Ishan Described by Contemporary Poets. Foreword by Bakhtiyar M. 
Babajanov (=Tokyo Islamic Area Studies Central Eurasian Research Series 
No. 3). (Tokyo: Department of Islamic Area Studies, 2009). 118 pp., 
ills., English, Russian, and Turki text. ISBN: 978-4-904039-15-1. By 
Alexander Morrison

Islamic Central Asia: An Anthology of Historical Sources. Edited by 
Scott C. Levi and Ron Sela (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 
2009). 316+xvi pp. Index. ISBN: 978-0-253-35385-6. By Nathan Spannaus

  A. Nilov. Tsekhoviki. Rozhdenie tenevoi ekonomiki. Zapiski podpol'nogo 
millionera / Seriia “Sdelano v SSSR”. Sankt-Peterburg: “Vektor”, 2006. 
114 c. ISBN: 5-9684-0549-X;

D. Vasil'ev. Fartsovshchiki. Kak delalis' sostoianiia. Ispoved' liudei 
iz “teni” / Seriia “Sdelano v SSSR”. Sankt-Peterburg: “Vektor”, 2007. 
158 s. ISBN: 5-9684-0610-0. By Tat'iana Basina

  Aleksei Isaev. Vmeste so vremenem: k 65-oi godovshchine Pobedy. 
Bishkek: Altyn Tamga, 2010. 568 s. ISBN: 978-9967-08-168-0; Feliks 
Kulov. Na perevale. Moskva: Vremia, 2008. 248 s., ill. ISBN: 
978-5-9691-0417-4;  Kuluipa / Sostavlenie i literaturnaia zapis' E. S. 
Luzanovoi. Bishkek: Manasartdizain, 2010. 204 s. ISBN: 
978-9967-25-983-6;  Zhumagul Saadanbekov. Moia zhizn'. Bishkek: Altyn 
print, 2010. 639 s., ill.; Tursunbek Chyngyshev. Vospominaniia: 
sobytiia, liudi. Bishkek: Biiiktik, 2008. 294 s. ISBN: 
978-9967-13-441-6. By Pavel Diatlenko

Barbara Evans Clements, A History of Women in Russia: From Earliest 
Times to the Present (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2012). 386 
pp. Bibliography. Index. ISBN: 978-0-253-00097-2. By Danielle 
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From parmelee at UMICH.EDU  Fri May 24 17:37:07 2013
From: parmelee at UMICH.EDU (Donna Parmelee)
Date: Fri, 24 May 2013 12:37:07 -0500
Subject: Carl Proffer/Ardis Symposium,
 University of Michigan (September 20-21, 2013)
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ANN ARBOR IN RUSSIAN LITERATURE: REVISITING THE CARL R. PROFFER AND ARDIS LEGACIES
A Symposium at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
September 20-21, 2013

The University of Michigan Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies and Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies are pleased to announce a two-day symposium to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the birth of U-M Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures Carl R. Proffer (1938-1984). 

An outstanding scholar renowned for his books on Gogol and Nabokov, Proffer not only contributed tremendously to the field of Russian literature as an author, translator, editor, and publisher, but also put Ann Arbor on the map of Russian literature in perpetuity. In 1971 with his wife Ellendea, also a scholar, author, and translator, he co-founded Ardis which became the foremost Western publisher of Russian and Soviet literature, including reprints and translations of classics as well as works banned by the Soviet authorities.

Symposium presenters will reflect on Proffer’s and Ardis’ contributions to Russian literature and culture and Russian-American relations and on U-M’s rich legacy as a center for the study of dissent in the Soviet Union and as a refuge for Soviet writers, artists, and political dissidents (including Joseph Brodsky, poet-in-residence at U-M, 1972-1981). 

The program includes a workshop (September 20, 2-5 pm), tribute (September 21, 1-5:30 pm), and an exhibit of items from the University Library’s Ardis Archive (September 20-21, 10:30 am-12:30 pm).

For information on symposium presenters, event locations, hotels, maps, and sponsors, please visit www.ii.umich.edu/crees/events/specialevents/proffertribute

Donna Parmelee
Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies
University of Michigan
parmelee at umich.edu

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From ameliede at EARTHLINK.NET  Fri May 24 18:22:00 2013
From: ameliede at EARTHLINK.NET (Jules Levin)
Date: Fri, 24 May 2013 11:22:00 -0700
Subject: Is this authentic?
Message-ID: <FRI.24.MAY.2013.112200.0700.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.UA.EDU>

An acquaintance forwards everything that comes to him.  I am trying to 
teach him not to trust the web.  The following is circulating now.  Is 
it genuine?

"  Putin's Speech on Feb. 04, 2013
[snip]
On February 4th, 2013, Vladimir Putin, the Russian president, addressed 
the Duma, (Russian Parliament), and gave a speech about the tensions 
with minorities in Russia :

"In Russia live Russians. Any minority, from anywhere, if it wants to 
live in Russia , to work and eat in Russia , should speak Russian, and 
should respect the Russian laws.  If they prefer Sharia Law, then we 
advise them to go to those places where that's the state law.  Russia 
does not need minorities.  Minorities need Russia , and we will not 
grant them special privileges, or try to change our laws to fit their 
desires, no matter how loud they yell 'discrimination'.  We better learn 
from the suicides of America , England , Holland and France , if we are 
to survive as a nation.  The Russian customs and traditions are not 
compatible with the lack of culture or the primitive ways of most 
minorities.  When this honorable legislative body thinks of creating new 
laws, it should have in mind the national interest first, observing that 
the minorities are not Russians."

Jules Levin

"Don't believe everything you read on the web."
                                                                         
--Abraham Lincoln

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From besserglik at ORANGE.FR  Fri May 24 19:53:43 2013
From: besserglik at ORANGE.FR (Bernard Besserglik)
Date: Fri, 24 May 2013 21:53:43 +0200
Subject: Is this authentic?
In-Reply-To: <519FAFC8.3060301@earthlink.net>
Message-ID: <FRI.24.MAY.2013.215343.0200.BESSERGLIK@ORANGE.FR>

On the website Hoax-Slayer, Brett M. Christensen writes: 
 
[T]here is no credible evidence that Putin actually made such a speech. A speech with those words is not listed in theSpeeches and Transcripts section of the President of Russia Website for February 4th, 2013 or any other date in February. And searches of the website – and the Kremlin archive pages – reveal no transcripts of such a speech. 

Moreover, I could find no legitimate news reports about a Putin speech like the one described. It seems quite unlikely that at least a few political journalists would not have written about such a speech. Or that the minorities at the receiving end of the alleged speech would not have publicly reacted to it. 

In fact, the message appears to be a mutated variant of earlier messages that claimed that an Australian Prime Minister made a similar speech telling immigrants that they should adapt to Australian ways or leave the country. The first Australian version of the hoax claims then Prime Minister John Howard uttered the words. Later versions name subsequent Prime Ministers Kevin Rudd and Julia Gillard. 

And a European version of the message claimed that French Prime Minister Francois Fillon made the speech. While the original John Howard version, although misleading and inaccurate, did contain elements of truth, subsequent versions are outright hoaxes.

While it seems quite unlikely that an accomplished leader like Putin would have worded a speech about minority groups in such an inflammatory and derogatory way, the President has actually made comments that echo somewhat, albeit in a much more reasonable tone, the sentiments expressed in the above speech. At a January 2012 meeting of the Board of the Federal Migration Service, Putin noted in a speech:
 

We must create the conditions for immigrants to normally integrate into our society, learn Russian and, of course, respect our culture and traditions and abide by Russian law. In this regard, I believe that the decision to make learning the Russian language compulsory and administer exams is well grounded. To do so, we will need to carry out major organisational work and introduce corresponding legislative amendments.






> Message du 24/05/13 20:24
> De : "Jules Levin" 
> A : SEELANGS at LISTSERV.UA.EDU
> Copie à : 
> Objet : [SEELANGS] Is this authentic?
> 
>An acquaintance forwards everything that comes to him.  I am trying to teach him not to trust the web.  The following is circulating now.  Is it genuine?
> 
> "  Putin's Speech on Feb. 04, 2013 
> [snip]
> On February 4th, 2013, Vladimir Putin, the Russian president, addressed the Duma, (Russian Parliament), and gave a speech about the tensions with minorities in Russia : 
> 
> "In Russia live Russians. Any minority, from anywhere, if it wants to live in Russia , to work and eat in Russia , should speak Russian, and should respect the Russian laws.  If they prefer Sharia Law, then we advise them to go to those places where that's the state law.  Russia does not need minorities.  Minorities need Russia , and we will not grant them special privileges, or try to change our laws to fit their desires, no matter how loud they yell 'discrimination'.  We better learn from the suicides of America , England , Holland and France , if we are to survive as a nation.  The Russian customs and traditions are not compatible with the lack of culture or the primitive ways of most minorities.  When this honorable legislative body thinks of creating new laws, it should have in mind the national interest first, observing that the minorities are not Russians."
> 
> Jules Levin
> 
> "Don't believe everything you read on the web."
>                                                                         --Abraham Lincoln
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From colkitto at ROGERS.COM  Sat May 25 07:01:42 2013
From: colkitto at ROGERS.COM (Robert Orr)
Date: Sat, 25 May 2013 03:01:42 -0400
Subject: Is this authentic?
In-Reply-To: <2127217009.22196.1369425223589.JavaMail.www@wwinf1n24>
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“We better learn from the suicides of America, England, Holland and France , if we are to survive as a nation.”

 

My first reaction on reading that was mild surprise that Putin had failed to mention Sweden.  Oh well …….

 

I’ve received all the Australian versions at one time or another.  

 

From: SEELANGS: Slavic & East European Languages and Literatures list [mailto:SEELANGS at LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Bernard Besserglik
Sent: Friday, May 24, 2013 3:54 PM
To: SEELANGS at LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] Is this authentic?

 

On the website Hoax-Slayer, Brett M. Christensen writes: 

 

[T]here is no credible evidence that Putin actually made such a speech. A speech with those words is not listed in the <http://eng.kremlin.ru/transcripts?page=5> Speeches and Transcripts section of the President of Russia Website for February 4th, 2013 or any other date in February. And searches of the website – and the Kremlin archive pages – reveal no transcripts of such a speech. 

Moreover, I could find no legitimate news reports about a Putin speech like the one described. It seems quite unlikely that at least a few political journalists would not have written about such a speech. Or that the minorities at the receiving end of the alleged speech would not have publicly reacted to it. 

In fact, the message appears to be a mutated variant of earlier messages that claimed that an Australian Prime Minister made a similar speech telling immigrants that they should adapt to Australian ways or leave the country. The  <http://www.hoax-slayer.com/howard-muslim-speech.shtml> first Australian version of the hoax claims then Prime Minister John Howard uttered the words. Later versions name subsequent Prime Ministers Kevin Rudd and  <http://www.hoax-slayer.com/gillard-muslims-leave.shtml> Julia Gillard. 

And a European version of the message claimed that French Prime Minister Francois Fillon made the speech. While the original John Howard version, although misleading and inaccurate, did contain elements of truth, subsequent versions are outright hoaxes.

While it seems quite unlikely that an accomplished leader like Putin would have worded a speech about minority groups in such an inflammatory and derogatory way, the President has actually made comments that echo somewhat, albeit in a much more reasonable tone, the sentiments expressed in the above speech. At a January 2012 meeting of the Board of the Federal Migration Service, Putin  <http://government.ru/eng/docs/17877/> noted in a speech:

 

We must create the conditions for immigrants to normally integrate into our society, learn Russian and, of course, respect our culture and traditions and abide by Russian law. In this regard, I believe that the decision to make learning the Russian language compulsory and administer exams is well grounded. To do so, we will need to carry out major organisational work and introduce corresponding legislative amendments.






> Message du 24/05/13 20:24
> De : "Jules Levin" 
> A : SEELANGS at LISTSERV.UA.EDU
> Copie à : 
> Objet : [SEELANGS] Is this authentic?
> 
>An acquaintance forwards everything that comes to him.  I am trying to teach him not to trust the web.  The following is circulating now.  Is it genuine?
> 
> "  Putin's Speech on Feb. 04, 2013 
> [snip]
> On February 4th, 2013, Vladimir Putin, the Russian president, addressed the Duma, (Russian Parliament), and gave a speech about the tensions with minorities in Russia : 
> 
> "In Russia live Russians. Any minority, from anywhere, if it wants to live in Russia , to work and eat in Russia , should speak Russian, and should respect the Russian laws.  If they prefer Sharia Law, then we advise them to go to those places where that's the state law.  Russia does not need minorities.  Minorities need Russia , and we will not grant them special privileges, or try to change our laws to fit their desires, no matter how loud they yell 'discrimination'.  We better learn from the suicides of America , England , Holland and France , if we are to survive as a nation.  The Russian customs and traditions are not compatible with the lack of culture or the primitive ways of most minorities.  When this honorable legislative body thinks of creating new laws, it should have in mind the national interest first, observing that the minorities are not Russians."
> 
> Jules Levin
> 
> "Don't believe everything you read on the web."
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From welsh_business at VERIZON.NET  Sat May 25 11:50:51 2013
From: welsh_business at VERIZON.NET (Susan Welsh)
Date: Sat, 25 May 2013 07:50:51 -0400
Subject: SEELANGS Digest - 24 May 2013 (#2013-226)
In-Reply-To: <SEELANGS%201305250000050346.000E@LISTSERV.UA.EDU>
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Subject: Re: Is this authentic?

The quoted remarks by Putin below are in no way different from the 
policy of the United States and many other countries. Immigrants are 
required to learn English and respect our culture. This in no way 
implies xenophobia. It is what makes a melting pot "melt."
There are, of course, many issues making the integration of immigrants 
difficult in different countries, but these cannot be blamed on Putin.

--

Susan Welsh

http://www.ssw-translation.com

Leesburg, Virginia USA

Skype: susan.s.welsh

Phone: 1-703-777-8927


> Date:    Fri, 24 May 2013 21:53:43 +0200
> From:    Bernard Besserglik <besserglik at ORANGE.FR>
> Subject: Re: Is this authentic?
>
> On the website Hoax-Slayer, Brett M. Christensen writes:
>   
> [T]here is no credible evidence that Putin actually made such a speech....
> While it seems quite unlikely that an accomplished leader like Putin would have worded a speech about minority groups in such an inflammatory and derogatory way,*the President has actually made comments that echo somewhat,*  albeit in a much more reasonable tone, the sentiments expressed in the above speech. At a January 2012 meeting of the Board of the Federal Migration Service, Putin noted in a speech [emphasis added]:
>   
> "We must create the conditions for immigrants to normally integrate into our society, learn Russian and, of course, respect our culture and traditions and abide by Russian law. In this regard, I believe that the decision to make learning the Russian language compulsory and administer exams is well grounded. To do so, we will need to carry out major organisational work and introduce corresponding legislative amendments."
>
>
>

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From aisrael at AMERICAN.EDU  Sat May 25 15:54:52 2013
From: aisrael at AMERICAN.EDU (Alina Israeli)
Date: Sat, 25 May 2013 11:54:52 -0400
Subject: Is this authentic?
In-Reply-To: <008d01ce5915$b6cd0d80$24672880$@rogers.com>
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Did you mean Norway http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Norway_attacks ?

If this is the case, this fratricide — a white man killing 70 white  
youth because there are immigrants in the country — does not seem to  
be a threat in Russia, at least for now. It did manifest itself in  
Arabic countries. I distinctly remember as one of the explanations for  
Iraq's invasion of Kuweit in 1991 the fact that there is Israel in  
their midst.

The pro-nazi comments of Skoybeda (that it's too bad that fascists did  
not make lampshades from the forefathers of liberals, in particular  
the forefathers of Mr. Gozman) are more likely to lead to a  
destruction of a nation. The 20th century already witnessed that.

Here's one Russian link about this lady: http://lenta.ru/news/2013/05/15/skoybeda/
In English: http://latitude.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/05/20/comparing-nazism-and-communism-online-in-russia-and-causing-a-storm/


On May 25, 2013, at 3:01 AM, Robert Orr wrote:

> “We better learn from the suicides of America, England, Holland and  
> France , if we are to survive as a nation.”
>
> My first reaction on reading that was mild surprise that Putin had  
> failed to mention Sweden.  Oh well …….
>
> I’ve received all the Australian versions at one time or another.
>
>
>
>
>

Associate Professor of Russian
WLC, American University
4400 Massachusetts Ave.
Washington DC 20016
(202) 885-2387 	fax (202) 885-1076
aisrael at american.edu






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From colkitto at ROGERS.COM  Sat May 25 19:48:10 2013
From: colkitto at ROGERS.COM (Robert Orr)
Date: Sat, 25 May 2013 15:48:10 -0400
Subject: Is this authentic?
Message-ID: <SAT.25.MAY.2013.154810.0400.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.UA.EDU>

 

Ø  Did you mean Norway

 

No, I did mean Sweden

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=as4m-dDubjg
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=as4m-dDubjg&feature=player_embedded>
&feature=player_embedded

 

and this RT reporting is better than most Western reporting these days

 

http://rt.com/news/stockholm-violence-outbreak-fires-671/

 

there’s also this

 

http://frontpagemag.com/2013/bruce-bawer/whats-wrong-with-sweden/ 

 


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From zimberg.alexis at GMAIL.COM  Sun May 26 13:28:40 2013
From: zimberg.alexis at GMAIL.COM (Alexis M. Zimberg)
Date: Sun, 26 May 2013 09:28:40 -0400
Subject: Russian Soul
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Thank you all for your help with this.

Alexis

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From erofeev at EU.SPB.RU  Mon May 27 14:28:36 2013
From: erofeev at EU.SPB.RU (Sergei Erofeev)
Date: Mon, 27 May 2013 18:28:36 +0400
Subject: STS Job at the European U at St Petersburg
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The STS Center at the European University at Saint Petersburg is looking
to hire an Executive Director for a project funded by the Ministry of
Education through a Mega Grant. The project's main research goal is to
study the population of Russian Computer Scientists in Russia and abroad
(Silicon Valley, Boston-Cambridge, New York, Paris, etc). It will
develop new methods in the fields of science, technology and society,
diaspora studies, technology transfer, and economic sociology. The
anticipated scientific outcome of the project is the publication of a
series of articles and books.

 

The Administrative/Executive Director will work on both
academic/research and administrative aspects of the grant under the
guidance of Mario Biagioli and Vincent Antonin Lepinay. She/he will
coordinate the various activities of the STS center (bi-annual
conferences, monthly seminars, summer schools). A background in STS
approaches to computer science and IT is desirable but not required.
She/he will operate at the interface of the European University, the
Ministry of Education and the research team. Beyond the project, it is
expected that the successful candidate will contribute to building the
first world class STS center in the post-soviet region.

 

The candidate should be available to join EUSP between late Summer/early
Fall 2013. The initial appointment is for 30 months with the possibility
of conversion to a tenured position after successful completion of the
grant objectives and pending success of fundraising efforts.

 

A combination of the following skills will be appreciated:

- A strong academic background in one or more of the fields of research
developed by the research team. A PhD in hand is a plus; ABD will also
be considered.

- Willingness to present and promote the project in the media and to
organize outreach activities.

- Eagerness to work in a competitive university with a team of
international scholars and a group of motivated students.

- Experience in animating and administering a large research program
will be considered an asset.

- Proficiency in Russian (expected reading and speaking, writing is a
plus) .

 

Competitive salary commensurate to experience.

 

Send your application (CV, letter of intent and writing sample) to
STS at eu.spb.ru


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From fsciacca at HAMILTON.EDU  Mon May 27 15:42:19 2013
From: fsciacca at HAMILTON.EDU (Franklin Sciacca)
Date: Mon, 27 May 2013 11:42:19 -0400
Subject: "Soviet War"
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From devilsbit06 at YAHOO.COM  Mon May 27 19:54:02 2013
From: devilsbit06 at YAHOO.COM (J P Maher)
Date: Mon, 27 May 2013 12:54:02 -0700
Subject: "Soviet War"
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Message-ID: <MON.27.MAY.2013.125402.0700.>


Does the encyclopedia have the original article on Lavrentiy Beria and the post mortem replacement?
peter maher27/13, Franklin Sciacca <fsciacca at HAMILTON.EDU> wrote:

From: Franklin Sciacca <fsciacca at HAMILTON.EDU>
Subject: [SEELANGS] "Soviet War"
To: SEELANGS at LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Date: Monday, May 27, 2013, 10:42 AM


  
    
  
  
    This curious inscription appears on a Ukrainian ritual towel
    (rushnyk), probably 1920-30s, from northern Chernihiv region
    (Chernihivske Polissia)

    

    
    МАГО
        МИЛАГО
        ЗАБРАЛИ НА 
    САВЕТСЬКУЮ
        ВІЙНУ 
       
    ЇЖ
        КАРОВУШКА
        САЛОМЧІК 
    НЕ
        НАДІСЕ НА
        ТРАВУ 
       
    Maho
        myloho
        zabraly na savets’kuiu viinu 
    Izh
        karovushka
        salomchik ne nadise na travu 
    
    
    
    
    

    
    
    



    Any thoughts on what the «Soviet War» refers to?  Could it be the
    Civil War (Revolution aftermath)?

    And could anyone comment on the dialect that might be reflected in
    the spelling? Could that "karovushka" line come from a song?

    

    Thanks,  Frank

    

    PS... I have a complete copy of Bol'shaia Sovetskaia
    Entsiklopediia...in very good condition. (The 1950s edition, with
    the extended article on Bering Strait.)  Any thoughts on whether
    some institution/library might find this of use, or how I might go
    about selling it?

    

    Franklin Sciacca
Program in Russian Studies
Hamilton College
198 College Hill Road
Clinton, New York 13323
    

    

  

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From samantha.sherry at ED.AC.UK  Mon May 27 21:11:49 2013
From: samantha.sherry at ED.AC.UK (Samantha Sherry)
Date: Mon, 27 May 2013 16:11:49 -0500
Subject: CALL FOR PAPERS
 =?UTF-8?Q?=E2=80=98Middle=E2=80=99_and_=E2=80=98Creative=E2=80=99=3A_?=Emerging Russian Social Groups in
 Language and Culture - 25th-26th October 2013
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CALL FOR PAPERS

‘Middle’ and ‘Creative’: Emerging Russian Social Groups in Language and Culture

International Conference
Organiser: The Princess Dashkova Russian Centre, the University of Edinburgh, in partnership with the Russian State University for the Humanities (Moscow, Russia). 

Dates: Friday 25th-Saturday 26th October 2013

Since the turn of Millennium, Russia has experienced a period of deep social transformations. One of the key developments is the emergence of the educated urban social cluster engaged in entrepreneurship, knowledge technologies and the creative professions. Loosely defined labels such as ‘creative class’ and ‘educated citizens’ have been coined to refer to this group, along with the use of a more general notion of ‘middle class’. These emergent socio-cultural groups and networks entail shifts in communication codes, repertoires and practices as they actively seek strategies and lifestyles to describe, perform and reflect their newly perceived identities and values, and to distinguish themselves from other parts of society. As members of these groups are employing various means to negotiate their own belonging, solidarity and identity, outside observers are also searching for adequate linguistic and cultural vocabularies to define, describe, represent and conjure up a stance towards this new social phenomenon. In particular, many cultural industries have developed a fascination with the ‘creative class’ as the representation of its lifestyles, values, agency and other features have become a prominent theme in contemporary Russian literature, cinema, theatre, visual arts and the media, and have shifted the agenda of Russian blogs and social networking sites.


The conference aims to facilitate an interdisciplinary investigation of the linguistic and cultural forms, codes and practices associated with the Russian ‘creative’/‘middle class’. Approaches including socio-cultural linguistics, discourse studies, media and new media studies, cultural anthropology, theatre, film, visual studies and related disciplines are welcome.
The conference will focus (but not exclusively) on the following themes:

•	The ‘creative’/‘middle class’ as an object of contemporary discourse
•	Linguistic representation and self-representation of the ‘creative’/‘middle class’
•	Practices and styles of communication associated with the ‘creative’/‘middle class’
•	The ‘creative’/‘middle class’ as reflected in practices of work, leisure and consumption  
•	Representations and counter-representations of the ‘creative’/‘middle class’ in film, literature, theatre and the media
•	The ‘creative’/‘middle class’ and civil society
•	The internet domains of Russian ‘creative’/‘middle class’

We invite proposals for full paper panels, individual papers and roundtables. Proposals including paper abstracts of 250 words accompanied by a short CV to be submitted by no later than 15 August 2013 to Dashkova.Centre at ed.ac.uk. Authors of accepted papers will be expected to register for the conference by the pre-registration deadline of 15 September. All participants are expected to submit a full version of their paper by 1 October 2013; the papers will be posted on the conference's website. 
The conference will take place at The Princess Dashkova Russian Centre, the University of Edinburgh.
It is expected that the conference participation will involve a £60 registration fee which will include lunches, coffee breaks and a conference pack. 

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From rar at SLAVIC.UMASS.EDU  Tue May 28 00:41:37 2013
From: rar at SLAVIC.UMASS.EDU (Robert A. Rothstein)
Date: Mon, 27 May 2013 20:41:37 -0400
Subject: "Soviet War"
In-Reply-To: <51A37EDB.4010603@hamilton.edu>
Message-ID: <MON.27.MAY.2013.204137.0400.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.UA.EDU>

On 5/27/2013 11:42 AM, Franklin Sciacca wrote:
> This curious inscription appears on a Ukrainian ritual towel 
> (rushnyk), probably 1920-30s, from northern Chernihiv region 
> (Chernihivske Polissia)
>
> МАГО МИЛАГО ЗАБРАЛИ НА
>
> САВЕТСЬКУЮ ВІЙНУ
>
>
> Any thoughts on what the «Soviet War» refers to?  Could it be the 
> Civil War (Revolution aftermath)?

The Ukrainian Wikipedia has an article on Радянсько-українська війна 
with a link to another encyclopedia article on
УКРАЇНСЬКО-СОВЄТСЬКА ВІЙНА 1917-1921 рр.

Bob Rothstein

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From AnemoneA at NEWSCHOOL.EDU  Tue May 28 13:59:57 2013
From: AnemoneA at NEWSCHOOL.EDU (Anthony Anemone)
Date: Tue, 28 May 2013 09:59:57 -0400
Subject: Kharms in English
Message-ID: <TUE.28.MAY.2013.095957.0400.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.UA.EDU>

“I am a Phenomenon Quite out of the Ordinary: The Notebooks, Diaries and
Letters of Danill Kharms,” translated, edited and with an introduction by
Anthony Anemone and Peter Scotto, is now available from Academic Studies
Press (http://www.academicstudiespress.com/Default.aspx#L_2) or Amazon.com (
http://www.amazon.com/Phenomenon-Quite-Out-Ordinary-Revolutions/dp/193623596X
).

One of the legendary figures of the “Last Soviet Avant-Garde,” Kharms was
the tutelary spirit of “Russia’s lost literature of the absurd.” His work,
rescued from oblivion by a dedicated group of friends and scholars, has
attained an almost cult status among present-day Russia’s literary
elite.  Anemone
and Scotto offer a wide-ranging selection of materials from Kharms’s
private notebooks, diaries, letters, draft poems and stories, and even
documents from the KGB archives detailing Kharm’s tragic end in a
psychiatric prison hospital.  Most have never been translated before into
English. Essential reading for anyone interested in Russian literature,
Soviet culture, or looking into the mind of a quirky genius.

-- 
Tony Anemone
Associate Professor
The New School
72 Fifth Ave, 702
New York, NY 10011

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From MonnierN at MISSOURI.EDU  Tue May 28 16:02:33 2013
From: MonnierN at MISSOURI.EDU (Monnier, Nicole M.)
Date: Tue, 28 May 2013 16:02:33 +0000
Subject: Call for submissions: 2013 AWSS Graduate Research Prize
Message-ID: <TUE.28.MAY.2013.160233.0000.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.UA.EDU>

**Deadline: September 1st, 2013**

The Association for Women in Slavic Studies (AWSS) is currently seeking
nominations for the 2013 Graduate Research Prize. The Prize is awarded
biennially to fund promising graduate level research in any field of
Slavic/East European/Central Asian studies by a woman or on a topic in
S/EE/CA Women¹s or Gender Studies by either a woman or a man. Graduate
students who are at any stage of master¹s or doctoral level research are
eligible.
 

The grant can be used to support expenses related to completion of a
dissertation, as well as travel, services, and/or materials. The award
carries a cash prize of $1,000. Nominations and self-nominations are
welcome. In addition to two letters of recommendation, please send a CV, a
letter of application in which you outline how the money will be used, why
it is necessary for progress on the project and, if appropriate, a list of
archives and/or libraries or other research resources that you plan to use.
 

Completed submissions must be received by September 1st, 2013 by the
committee chairperson, Nicole Monnier (recommenders may send their letters
as emails OR as email attachments) at monniern at missouri.edu.
 

PLEASE NOTE: The AWSS Graduate Research Prize is only awarded every other
year.





****************************
Dr. Nicole Monnier
Associate Teaching Professor of Russian
Director of Undergraduate Studies (Russian)
German & Russian Studies
428A Strickland (formerly GCB)
University of Missouri
Columbia, MO 65211

phone: 573.882.3370

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From jdoc at RUSSIANTUMBLE.COM  Wed May 29 03:28:28 2013
From: jdoc at RUSSIANTUMBLE.COM (J Doc)
Date: Tue, 28 May 2013 20:28:28 -0700
Subject: New Blog on the study of Russian, Russia and Russians
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All are invited to visit a new blog devoted to the study of Russia,
Russians and the Russian Language- http://russiantumble.com/

Entries tend to have literature and/or history as their main focus, but
language, translation, culture and politics also have their place here.
Current entries translate and examine passages from recent Russian Booker
Prize winners, with an eye to how these novels show a Russian view of the
history of the Revolution and the Soviet period. Past entries include
translations of Pushkin, Mandelstam, Bulgakov and Tsoi.

John Dougherty

http://russiantumble.com/

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From gricci at PRINCETON.EDU  Wed May 29 13:03:19 2013
From: gricci at PRINCETON.EDU (Giuseppe A. Ricci)
Date: Wed, 29 May 2013 13:03:19 +0000
Subject: Room for rent- St. Petersburg
Message-ID: <WED.29.MAY.2013.130319.0000.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.UA.EDU>

Hello,

I am a graduate student currently living and studying in St. Petersburg until the end of August. At that point the room I am staying in will be open, and my landlady has asked that I advertise around in case other American or Western graduate students or scholars would be interested in renting the room for any duration (several months to a year depending).

The apartment is located on Vasilevskiy Island 5 minutes by foot from the metro station Primorskaya. The room is 13 square meters, includes wifi, and a short haired British cat also occupies the apartment. In the adjacent room (2 bedroom apartment) lives the landlady who provides breakfast and dinner. The price would be somewhere in the range of $30-$35.

The living arrangements are great and I can vouch for the landlady's honesty and friendliness. If there is any interest, or if anyone knows where else I may post this information, please email me directly. The room will be up for rent at the start of September. I can provide two photos at request.

Всем всего доброго.


Joseph Ricci

PhD. Candidate

History Department

Princeton University

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From Elizabeth.Schade at CSI.CUNY.EDU  Wed May 29 13:27:09 2013
From: Elizabeth.Schade at CSI.CUNY.EDU (Elizabeth Schade)
Date: Wed, 29 May 2013 13:27:09 +0000
Subject: Room for rent- St. Petersburg
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Hi Joseph-
My husband will need to rent a room in Peter at that time. Please email me at: Elizabeth.schade at csi.cuny.edu<mailto:Elizabeth.schade at csi.cuny.edu> (I haven't had my coffee yet, and I don't see your direct email address in the text.)
Thank you!

From: SEELANGS: Slavic & East European Languages and Literatures list [mailto:SEELANGS at LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Giuseppe A. Ricci
Sent: Wednesday, May 29, 2013 9:03 AM
To: SEELANGS at LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Subject: [SEELANGS] Room for rent- St. Petersburg

Hello,

I am a graduate student currently living and studying in St. Petersburg until the end of August. At that point the room I am staying in will be open, and my landlady has asked that I advertise around in case other American or Western graduate students or scholars would be interested in renting the room for any duration (several months to a year depending).

The apartment is located on Vasilevskiy Island 5 minutes by foot from the metro station Primorskaya. The room is 13 square meters, includes wifi, and a short haired British cat also occupies the apartment. In the adjacent room (2 bedroom apartment) lives the landlady who provides breakfast and dinner. The price would be somewhere in the range of $30-$35.

The living arrangements are great and I can vouch for the landlady's honesty and friendliness. If there is any interest, or if anyone knows where else I may post this information, please email me directly. The room will be up for rent at the start of September. I can provide two photos at request.

Всем всего доброго.


Joseph Ricci

PhD. Candidate

History Department

Princeton University
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From psyling at YMAIL.COM  Wed May 29 12:48:56 2013
From: psyling at YMAIL.COM (Psy Ling)
Date: Wed, 29 May 2013 05:48:56 -0700
Subject: Passengers' outrage ... 'for speaking RUSSIAN'
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A pretty controversial information. Speaking Russian or behaving baldy? 
Passengers' outrage as they are thrown off Spirit flight to Vegas 'for speaking RUSSIAN'
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2331362/Spirit-Airlines-throws-passengers-Las-Vegas-flight-speaking-Russian.html#ixzz2UgXxa0jy 


 
Psy Ling


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From John.Dunn at GLASGOW.AC.UK  Wed May 29 15:44:45 2013
From: John.Dunn at GLASGOW.AC.UK (John Dunn)
Date: Wed, 29 May 2013 16:44:45 +0100
Subject: Passengers' outrage ... 'for speaking RUSSIAN'
In-Reply-To: <1369831736.57369.YahooMailNeo@web160604.mail.bf1.yahoo.com>
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It is a sound rule of life never to believe anything you read in the Daily Mail.  Though if it is true, they should perhaps have tried to defuse the situation by claiming that they were speaking Olbanian [sic].

John Dunn.
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Subject: [SEELANGS] Passengers' outrage ... 'for speaking RUSSIAN'

A pretty controversial information. Speaking Russian or behaving baldy?
Passengers' outrage as they are thrown off Spirit flight to Vegas 'for speaking RUSSIAN'
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2331362/Spirit-Airlines-throws-passengers-Las-Vegas-flight-speaking-Russian.html#ixzz2UgXxa0jy


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From a.v.nevinglovskaya at GMAIL.COM  Wed May 29 16:39:28 2013
From: a.v.nevinglovskaya at GMAIL.COM (Anya Hamrick-Nevinglovskaya)
Date: Wed, 29 May 2013 11:39:28 -0500
Subject: Seeking Housing in Moscow: End of August - September
Message-ID: <WED.29.MAY.2013.113928.0500.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.UA.EDU>

Dear Seelangers,

I am a PhD candidate who will be researching in Moscow for about a month,
and I am looking for a room or an apartment. The exact dates are to be
settled shortly, but the stay will begin either at the end of August
(lasting through the end of September) or last the entire month of
September. If you know of any possibilities, please contact me off-list
with the details.

Many thanks,
Anya
-- 
Anya Hamrick-Nevinglovskaya
PhD Candidate, Comparative and World Literature
Graduate Instructor, Comparative and World Literature/
Slavic Languages and Literatures
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

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From jw at KANADACHA.CA  Wed May 29 16:43:04 2013
From: jw at KANADACHA.CA (J.W.)
Date: Wed, 29 May 2013 12:43:04 -0400
Subject: V.F. Bulgakov's "Kak prozhita zhizn'" now in print
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Ottawa, Wednesday 29/5/13 12h30 EDT

Dear SEELANGers,

This is to announce the publication of Valentin Fedorovich Bulgakov's
autobiographical memoir *Kak prozhita zhizn' -- Vospominanija poslednego
sekretarja L.N. Tolstogo* by Kuchkovo Pole Publishers in Moscow (hardcover,
864 pp.).  It constitutes Volume 10 in the Tolstoy Series of the former
Slavic Research Group at the University of Ottawa (Canada).  Under the
editorship of Tolstoy specialist Andrew Donskov, it was compiled by
Ljudmila Gladkova, John Woodsworth and Arkadi Klioutchanski.  A companion
volume by Bulgakov, *V spore s Tolstym,* is due for publication early in
2014.  The book may be ordered from the publishers at www.kpole.ru; e-mail:
kuchkovopole at mail.ru.

John Woodsworth
http://kanadacha.ca

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From a.v.nevinglovskaya at GMAIL.COM  Wed May 29 17:00:56 2013
From: a.v.nevinglovskaya at GMAIL.COM (Anya Hamrick-Nevinglovskaya)
Date: Wed, 29 May 2013 12:00:56 -0500
Subject: Seeking Housing in Moscow: End of August - September
Message-ID: <WED.29.MAY.2013.120056.0500.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.UA.EDU>

Dear Seelangers,

I am a PhD candidate who will be researching in Moscow for about a month,
and I am looking for a room or an apartment. The exact dates are to be
settled shortly, but the stay will begin either at the end of August
(lasting through the end of September) or last the entire month of
September. If you know of any possibilities, please contact me off-list
with the details.

Many thanks,
Anya

-- 
Anya Hamrick-Nevinglovskaya
PhD Candidate, Comparative and World Literature
Graduate Instructor, Comparative and World Literature/
Slavic Languages and Literatures
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

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From sdsures at GMAIL.COM  Wed May 29 18:20:51 2013
From: sdsures at GMAIL.COM (Stephanie Briggs)
Date: Wed, 29 May 2013 19:20:51 +0100
Subject: Passengers' outrage ... 'for speaking RUSSIAN'
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http://voicerussia.com/2013_05_27/Spirit-Airlines-kicked-group-off-flight-for-speaking-Russian-passengers-say/

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From jwilson at SRAS.ORG  Thu May 30 08:55:49 2013
From: jwilson at SRAS.ORG (Josh Wilson)
Date: Thu, 30 May 2013 12:55:49 +0400
Subject: Call for Papers - Student Publication
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Dear SEELANGERs! 

 

This is our final call for papers for Vestnik, The Journal of Russian and
Asian Studies. 

 

Vestnik is a publication meant to showcase student work. To be eligible, a
submission must have been written while the author was still a student. The
author may be no more than two years out of university, and must be under
the age of 35 at the time of submission. The paper must be focused on a
subject related to Russia, the USSR, and/or any state formerly a part of the
USSR. Any subject that meets this criteria is welcomed. These include, but
are not limited to: art; history; literature; politics; and international
relations.

 

For every issue of Vestnik, one $200 Jury Award is presented. After
publication, the editorial board will select the best (most interesting,
original, well-written, and well-argued) submission. 

 

More information on how to submit can be found here:
http://www.sras.org/vestnik_editorial_board

 

Any questions may be addressed to me at jwilson at sras.org. 

 

The deadline currently on our site is May 31. However, we will accept late
submissions until June 5. Decisions will be on who will enter the editorial
process by June 10. 

 

Josh Wilson
Assistant Director
The School of Russian and Asian Studies
Editor in Chief
Vestnik, The Journal of Russian and Asian Studies
SRAS.org 
 <mailto:jwilson at sras.org> jwilson at sras.org


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From jmm9hw at VIRGINIA.EDU  Fri May 31 13:03:14 2013
From: jmm9hw at VIRGINIA.EDU (Jill Martiniuk)
Date: Fri, 31 May 2013 09:03:14 -0400
Subject: Seeking Housing in Moscow September-November
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Hello,

I am a PhD candidate who will be researching in Moscow for 3 months, and I
am looking for a room or an apartment.  If you know of any possibilities,
please contact me off-list with the details.

Thank you,
Jill
jmm9hw at virginia.edu

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From sforres1 at SWARTHMORE.EDU  Fri May 31 15:50:50 2013
From: sforres1 at SWARTHMORE.EDU (Sibelan Forrester)
Date: Fri, 31 May 2013 11:50:50 -0400
Subject: New Russian dialect recorded in Alaska
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Respected SEELANZhane,

Forwarding this link from RIA Novosti in case others have not seen it:

<http://en.ria.ru/world/20130529/181410443/Unique-Russian-Dialect-Recorded-in-Alaska.html>

With best regards,

Sibelan

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From ameliede at EARTHLINK.NET  Fri May 31 17:36:37 2013
From: ameliede at EARTHLINK.NET (Jules Levin)
Date: Fri, 31 May 2013 10:36:37 -0700
Subject: New Russian dialect recorded in Alaska
In-Reply-To: <51A8C6DA.30004@swarthmore.edu>
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On 5/31/2013 8:50 AM, Sibelan Forrester wrote:
> Respected SEELANZhane,
>
> Forwarding this link from RIA Novosti in case others have not seen it:
>
> <http://en.ria.ru/world/20130529/181410443/Unique-Russian-Dialect-Recorded-in-Alaska.html> 
>
Too bad there are no actual examples in the article.  In the 60's I 
recorded a Molokan dialect in Los Angeles still spoken by oldsters who 
were children of the immigrant generation (Tolstoy-funded emigres circa 
1900...).  I actually worked through the Soviet dialect questionaire 
with an informant.  I did write a paper for the UCLA Slavic Dept but 
never published.  In the 90's I turned over everything--tapes, notes--to 
visiting Moscow linguists at UCLA, happily received.  Never got word of 
any resulting research or publication.
That dialect was umerennoe jakan'e, with loss of neuter gender.  With 
the loss of neuter gender you get a new mixed declension--Acc. -u, Inst. 
-om, etc.  I mention this because I would like to know the details of 
the mentioned shift of some fems to mascs. in the Alaska dialect.
Jules Levin
Los Angeles





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>
> Sibelan
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From sarahhurst at ALASKA.NET  Fri May 31 17:57:01 2013
From: sarahhurst at ALASKA.NET (Sarah Hurst)
Date: Fri, 31 May 2013 09:57:01 -0800
Subject: New Russian dialect recorded in Alaska
In-Reply-To: <51A8DFA5.7060600@earthlink.net>
Message-ID: <FRI.31.MAY.2013.095701.0800.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.UA.EDU>

Here's a link to a paper about Alaskan Russian. 

http://2010rac.com/papers/bergelson+kibrik.pdf

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From matthews at VERSOBOOKS.COM  Fri May 31 18:42:27 2013
From: matthews at VERSOBOOKS.COM (Matthew Schantz)
Date: Fri, 31 May 2013 13:42:27 -0500
Subject: Talk on Victor Serge by Susan Weissman
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From katya at SPU.EDU  Fri May 31 19:31:21 2013
From: katya at SPU.EDU (Katya Nemtchinova)
Date: Fri, 31 May 2013 14:31:21 -0500
Subject: Reputable translation firms
Message-ID: <FRI.31.MAY.2013.143121.0500.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.UA.EDU>

On behalf of a colleague:

I would like to ask you a favor, please! Today I was busily getting some quotes to have a few documents translated from English into Russian for our work in Tajikistan when I started wondering about the reputations of these translating companies that I have found online. Of course they all have glowing reviews on their websites (!), but I couldn’t find any potentially unbiased reviews of their work. I thought perhaps you might be able to recommend an affordable translation firm? I got the best quote from “Russian Translation Pros” and second best quote from “Technovate Translations”. Have you heard of either of those companies?

Thank you,
Katya Nemtchinova
Seattle Pacific University

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From sarahhurst at ALASKA.NET  Fri May 31 19:34:47 2013
From: sarahhurst at ALASKA.NET (Sarah Hurst)
Date: Fri, 31 May 2013 11:34:47 -0800
Subject: Reputable translation firms
In-Reply-To: <9593124681178746.WA.katyaspu.edu@listserv.ua.edu>
Message-ID: <FRI.31.MAY.2013.113447.0800.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.UA.EDU>

I know that Language Interface is very professional. I don't know how their prices compare with the agencies you've looked at. I suppose most people want to find the cheapest quote, but who knows what the quality will be like.

Sarah Hurst

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From rifkin at TCNJ.EDU  Fri May 31 19:54:32 2013
From: rifkin at TCNJ.EDU (Benjamin Rifkin)
Date: Fri, 31 May 2013 15:54:32 -0400
Subject: Reputable translation firms
In-Reply-To: <9593124681178746.WA.katyaspu.edu@listserv.ua.edu>
Message-ID: <FRI.31.MAY.2013.155432.0400.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.UA.EDU>

I have had nothing but success working with Paul Gallagher's firm.  He's a member of the SEELANGs community and his e-mail address is paulbg at pbg-translations.com.  Paul and his team have helped me with translations into a variety of languages as my College has developed and expanded some programming of interest to international students coming to the US.

Paul's team got the jobs done every time on deadline and within budget.  And he's a pleasure to work with.

Best wishes to all,

Ben Rifkin
The College of New Jersey

On May 31, 2013, at 3:31 PM, Katya Nemtchinova <katya at SPU.EDU> wrote:

> On behalf of a colleague:
> 
> I would like to ask you a favor, please! Today I was busily getting some quotes to have a few documents translated from English into Russian for our work in Tajikistan when I started wondering about the reputations of these translating companies that I have found online. Of course they all have glowing reviews on their websites (!), but I couldn’t find any potentially unbiased reviews of their work. I thought perhaps you might be able to recommend an affordable translation firm? I got the best quote from “Russian Translation Pros” and second best quote from “Technovate Translations”. Have you heard of either of those companies?
> 
> Thank you,
> Katya Nemtchinova
> Seattle Pacific University
> 
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From cyrillico at EMBARQMAIL.COM  Fri May 31 20:06:10 2013
From: cyrillico at EMBARQMAIL.COM (Svetlana Ball)
Date: Fri, 31 May 2013 16:06:10 -0400
Subject: Reputable translation firms
Message-ID: <FRI.31.MAY.2013.160610.0400.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.UA.EDU>

Katya,

I have been translating from English into Russian for a number of years and 
I will be glad to give you a quote.  I am ATA certified from E to R and have 
a number of happy clients.  You can check my profile on Linkedin.


Contact me via e-mail: cyrillico at embarqmail.com if interested.

Sincerely,

Svetlana Ball
ATA Accredited Translator E-R
Supreme Court of Ohio Certified Russian Interpreter
Language Line Certified Medical Interpreter
SDLX Trados 7.0
cell (740) 255-1585

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To: <SEELANGS at LISTSERV.UA.EDU>
Sent: Friday, May 31, 2013 3:54 PM
Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] Reputable translation firms


I have had nothing but success working with Paul Gallagher's firm.  He's a 
member of the SEELANGs community and his e-mail address is 
paulbg at pbg-translations.com.  Paul and his team have helped me with 
translations into a variety of languages as my College has developed and 
expanded some programming of interest to international students coming to 
the US.

Paul's team got the jobs done every time on deadline and within budget.  And 
he's a pleasure to work with.

Best wishes to all,

Ben Rifkin
The College of New Jersey

On May 31, 2013, at 3:31 PM, Katya Nemtchinova <katya at SPU.EDU> wrote:

> On behalf of a colleague:
>
> I would like to ask you a favor, please! Today I was busily getting some 
> quotes to have a few documents translated from English into Russian for 
> our work in Tajikistan when I started wondering about the reputations of 
> these translating companies that I have found online. Of course they all 
> have glowing reviews on their websites (!), but I couldn’t find any 
> potentially unbiased reviews of their work. I thought perhaps you might be 
> able to recommend an affordable translation firm? I got the best quote 
> from “Russian Translation Pros” and second best quote from “Technovate 
> Translations”. Have you heard of either of those companies?
>
> Thank you,
> Katya Nemtchinova
> Seattle Pacific University
>
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From bredford at KU.EDU  Fri May 31 20:23:12 2013
From: bredford at KU.EDU (Bart Redford)
Date: Fri, 31 May 2013 15:23:12 -0500
Subject: Turkish Lecturer Position
Message-ID: <FRI.31.MAY.2013.152312.0500.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.UA.EDU>

UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS--TURKISH LECTURER

DEPARTMENT:  Center for Russian, East European & Eurasian Studies
TYPE OF APPOINTMENT:  9-month, three-quarter time (30 hours/week), non-tenure track position (with possibility of renewal)
SALARY: $30,000 & benefits
START DATE: August 18, 2013

DUTIES:
•	Teach undergraduate courses in first and second-year Turkish and Turkish culture and/or literature.  Offer independent reading courses, as necessary.
•	Prepare for and attend all class meetings. In case of absence, the lecturer must make arrangements for a substitute.
•	Develop assignments, administer tests, evaluate student work, provide feedback to students, and assign grades.
•	Assist in providing outreach activities such as Turkish film nights and a Turkish language table.
•	Hold regular office hours for students involved in classes taught.  A minimum of three posted office hours each week is required.  These office hours should be divided over at least two and preferably three different days.  The lecturer should be available for reasonable appointments if a student cannot meet during scheduled office hours.
•	Assess student language proficiency as required.
•	Adhere to departmental, College and University policies and attend departmental meetings.  

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:
1.	Native or near-native fluency in Turkish, at least at the ACTFL superior level.
2.	MA in Turkish language and literature, Turkish studies or a field related to foreign language pedagogy.
3.	Near-native fluency in English.
4.	Ability to teach Turkish effectively at the undergraduate level, as demonstrated by previous professional experience and/or professional training.
5.	Appropriate work authorization for employment in the United States.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:
1.	Ph.D. or A.B.D. in a field related to language instruction (i.e., Turkish language and literature, linguistics, etc.)
2.	Experience teaching Turkish or other languages to non-native speakers in a US college or university. 

3.	Evidence or testimony regarding excellent teaching ability at the university level.

4.	Interest and ability to develop 3rd-year Turkish language course.

5.	Interest and ability to develop a study abroad course in Turkey.

6.	Interest and experience in on-line language instruction.

DEADLINE: We will start reviewing applications July 8, 2013, but will accept applications until the position is filled. 

For more information and to apply go to http://employment.ku.edu/jobs/2904

A complete application consists of completion of the on-line form at the website, cover letter, cv, list of references, teaching statement and sample course syllabi. Please note that these materials should be uploaded directly to the KU job site.  

The University of Kansas is an EO/AA employer.

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