Aeroflot has become customer-oriented?

[LeBlanc, Ronald]

Dear SEELANGers,

In the category of "I never thought I'd live long enough to see this day," today's NYT has an amusing piece about the new and improved Aeroflot:
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/02/business/international/russian-service-and-with-please-and-thank-you.html?_r=0

And I suppose we'll be told soon that the passengers no longer applaud wildly when the aircraft manages to land (not smoothly, of course, but just lands)?

Ron

Ronald D. LeBlanc
Professor of Russian and Humanities
Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
Murkland Hall G10H
University of New Hampshire
Durham, NH 03824
603-862-3553
ronald.leblanc at unh.edu
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From: SEELANGS: Slavic & East European Languages and Literatures list [SEELANGS at LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of John Langran [john at RUSLAN.CO.UK]
Sent: Wednesday, October 30, 2013 4:48 PM
To: SEELANGS at LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Subject: [SEELANGS] Ruslan 1 Cartoons for beginners Russian

This is to let teachers of beginners Russian know about a new cartoon series which I think is quite unique. An animator in Kaliningrad has taken my Ruslan 1 dialogues, texts and songs and has created high quality animations from them.  There has been a lot of interest in UK schools and colleges. "Just like the Simpsons" was the best comment. There is information at www.ruslan.co.uk/ruslancartoons.htm<http://www.ruslan.co.uk/ruslancartoons.htm> with a link to lesson 1 on YouTube. Lessons 1-5 will be published mid November on DVD for learners and on USB with a networking licence for schools and colleges.  The DVD will be PAL in the first instance, playable in the US on PCs and multisystem players.
John Langran
www.ruslan.co.uk<http://www.ruslan.co.uk>



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