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Entry: What's in a Name? Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/whats_in_a_name#13891 Post contents: Bruce, if you call yourself a "reluctant" resident of Moscow, then I'm guessing that you haven't befriended many ordinary Russians. And as befriending ordinary Russians is very easy, the problem is probably in you, not them. Get out of Moscow, take a long train ride through Siberia and take an ample capacity for vodka and conversation with you, and leave behind your grievances about the discomforts of living in Russia, and you might begin to see them differently. But if you think the oligarchs and Novorusskies are the "cream" of Russia, then you'll be incapable of appreciating the extraordinary magnanimity, generosity, chivalry, warmth and intellectual brilliance of what you snobbishly call "ordinary Russians." Not to mention their good manners, which might be another difference between you and them. Sent at: 2008 07 24