genocide

[Deborah Hoffman]

There was a previous inquiry as to the
characterization of Stalin's actions as genocide.  At
a commemmoration today, President Yushchenko called
for the 1933 famine to be recognized as such.

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L26615963.htm

Just FYI,
Deborah

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> Date:    Fri, 25 Nov 2005 14:00:57 +0300
> From:    Yelena <vsem at RUSSIANEXPEDITION.NET>
> Subject: Re: what sound does a turkey make in
> Russian?
> 
> Dear Michael,
> 
> In Russian villages when grandmothers show their
> grandchildren the sounds
> which home animals produce they show turkeys's sound
> the following way. They
> quickly turned their heads from left to write, and
> from right to left  so
> the cheeks quickly moved and at the same tome
> prolong a vowel [e]. It is
> very funny and quite close to the turkeys' sounds.
> Best regards,
> 
> Dr. Yelena Minyonok
> www.russianexpedition.net
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Michael Denner" <mdenner at STETSON.EDU>
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> Subject: [SEELANGS] what sound does a turkey make in
> Russian?
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> Colleagues,
> 
> A student asked me what sound turkeys make in
> Russian. I replied that, since
> _Meleagris_ is a New-World genus, I doubted that
> they made any noise
> whatsoever in Russian. This seemed not to satisfy
> them.
> 
> 
> 
> Does anyone know?
> 
> 
> 
> mad
> 
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> (ö)(ö)(ö)(ö)(ö)(ö)(ö)(ö)(ö)(ö)
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>    Dr. Michael A. Denner
>    Editor, Tolstoy Studies Journal
>    Director, University Honors Program
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>    Contact Information:
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>    Campus Box 8361
>    DeLand, FL 32720-3756
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>    386.822.7265 (direct line)
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> Date:    Fri, 25 Nov 2005 11:02:36 -0500
> From:    Karen Evans-Romaine <evans-ro at OHIO.EDU>
> Subject: call for papers, SAMLA
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> The following is a courtesy posting for a colleague.
> Please respond  
> to the people listed in the Call for Papers below,
> not to the sender,  
> Karen Evans-Romaine.
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> Call for papers for the South Atlantic Modern
> Language Association  
> (SAMLA) convention in Charlotte, N.C., November 10 -
> 12, 2006. Please  
> send the title and abstract of your paper on Russian
> literature,  
> pedagogy, linguistics or area studies to Marya
> Zeigler,  
> mazeigl at hotmail.com, 410 - 854 -4333 and E.C.
> Barksdale,  
> barksdal at germslav.ufl.edu by February 15, 2006.
> Speakers must become  
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> Date:    Fri, 25 Nov 2005 12:52:31 -0500
> From:    Stephanie Sures <sdsures at HOTMAIL.COM>
> Subject: Re: what sound does a turkey make in
> Russian?
> 
> Naturally, I am trying this out as we speak! :-)
> Anyone else? 
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Deborah Hoffman
Finance Chair, Graduate Student Senate
Modern and Classical Language Studies
Kent State University

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