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Pravda was once
the official news paper of the Soviet Union - Communism may have gone
but Pravda lives on.
The english version
of Pravda is good for many things - seeing the world through Russian
eyes, getting a different bias on the news and most importantly hearing
of things that only Pravda would find out [right now hearing another
view of the so-called War on Terror] - and all of it in a version
of English I like to call Russlish [thanks Arthur C. Clark]
- which manages to add a special twist to what are already sometimes
pretty twisted news stories.
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- 29/12 STREET
SALESMEN FOOL MEXICAN POLICE
- The street
salesmen have their own security system: agents stand at the corners
of the streets ready to inform about approaching policemen by
radio phones
- 30/11 BLACK
HOLE ON ITS WAY
- It is not
known exactly what happens when matter and anti-matter meet but
if planets and suns are physically dislocated by the mechanism,
it is certain that the effects of the Earth coming into contact
with a Black Hole would be catastrophic.
- 21/11 TULIPS
FOUND TO BE "ENVIRONMENTALLY HARMFUL"
- 17/11
- 13/11 HAPPY
IDEA OF DUTCH PRISONS' WORKERS
- if any one
has any idea of what this is all about please let
me know.
- 10/11 I'LL
TRADE YOU A B-2 AND A RUDY FOR A BUSH
- This one
scares me a bit ....
- and in case
you wonder if it's some strange Twilight Zone thing here
it is straight from the horses mouth.
- The card
bearing the likeness of bin Laden, the Saudi exile suspected of
masterminding the September 11 attacks, is one of 90 in a new
series ... There are also Old Glory cards, New York Mayor Rudy
Giuliani cards, National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice cards,
and cards depicting Palestinian President Yasser Arafat giving
blood for the victims of the attacks ... Depictions of the attacks
themselves and the rubble were left out to avoid controversy,
Shorin said.
- 6/11 THE
CIA'S KITTY CAT SPIES
- The cat's
operating procedure was simple: it was supposed to sit near the
target so that conversations could be picked up and transmitted
by the cat's internal electronic devices. After five years of
planning and preparations, the cat was fitted with the equipment
and sent out on its first mission, its tail having been transformed
into an aerial.
- 1/11 RUSSIAN
FATHER CHRISTMAS ARRIVES IN MOSCOW IN NOVEMBER
- 31/10 - Bear
Cured of Alcoholism
- In the evening,
the bear was usually drunk and sometimes he went out of the fence
and followed passing people. In the morning, he had a hang-over
and uncle Misha gave him something drink again. Local people preferred
to avoid meeting the bear ... Zoo worker Tatyana Yarkina, looking
after Potapych, says that the bear's psyche is disturbed, so she
needs to keep paying constant attention to the animal. However,
she is optimistic about its future and considers Potapych to be
a good bear.
- 29/10 - ISLAMIC
BEARD SPECIALIST ANALYSES BIN LADEN
- Barber Nazirullah
says that a man's beard, in his culture, can speak volumes about
his character. "You can say a lot about someone from the way they
grow their beard. Cuts depend on tribal custom and personal preference".
He states that his family have been barbers for three generations
and that he understands intrinsically the psyche behind the beard.
- 27/10 - Bear
with bad breathe steals Toothpaste and ...
- 11/10 - Adventures
of a Drunk Tractor Driver - Russlish at it's best!
The "Heroic Tractor"
- 6/8 - Video
Games a Sport - actually the tragic tale of 6 teenagers who committed
suicide, apparently linked to a computer game - an interesting note
at the bottom was that Computer Games are to become a Sport taught
at schools - Pravda poses the hard questions.
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