Azov

Hi Azov,

You wrote "A recent Russian law (in a fancy way related to the recent Ukraine elections) extended the period one can stay in the city without registration to 90 days." It the best news I've heard all day! Where did you read that? I'm travelling to Moscow soon and would love to know your source for this info. Thanks, Seabhcán 11:19, 18 Jan 2005 (UTC)

I found this "He called a decision to prolong the period of staying of Ukrainian citizens in Russia without registration to 90 days the law of the year, since it broadens political and economic freedoms of citizens." [1], but it suggests that the extension applies only to Ukrainians staying in Russia, rather than any non-Moscovite staying in Moscow. Seabhcán 13:15, 18 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Hi Seabhcán,

Here is an official publication (in Russian). You can get an ugly automatic translation with something like this. Be careful, however - THE NEW LAW ONLY APPLIES TO RUSSIAN CITIZENS. If you don't have a Russian passport, make sure you know what are the rules that apply in your situation. Dmitry

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Nomenclature

Hello, Dima. You may want to list your proposal on Portal:Russia/Russia-related_Wikipedia_notice_board, because it is regularly checked by Russian editors who may want to leave a comment. Cheers, Ghirlandajo 08:54, 21 November 2005 (UTC)

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Enjoyed the exchange. My issue was only grammatical. If your'e right about Razin, you should probably edit his article too. Your pictures are great! Dr. Dan 17:28, 17 December 2005 (UTC)

Васильевский спуск

Hi and thanks for the correction. I do know Васильевский isn't a bridge, I just didn't recall quite right where the landing had taken place. However — as you may or may not have noticed — the previous version mentioned it as having taken place on the square itself which I definitely knew wasn't true. BTW, I've got that snippet from the Matthias Rust article, so it should probably be corrected there as well. Cheers, --Schwallex 19:32, 11 May 2006 (UTC)

Yep, I figured you've gotten it from Matthias Rust article. I've corrected both articles at once :) Azov 23:59, 11 May 2006 (UTC)

Fisss's images

Thanks a lot for your work, I know it is not the most rewarding business but it has to be done. I have reverted Fisss's removal of your maintenance tags and left him the last warning. Next time I will just block him. I do not see any other way to teach him a lesson abakharev 00:35, 13 October 2006 (UTC)

• Please check User_talk:Fisss#Image:Patriarshy.JPG. Do you by any chanse know there the image came from? Alex Bakharev 05:03, 14 January 2007 (UTC)

Quite honestly, I don't see a point in investigating where the image came from. Even if Fisss claims he's the author, I won't trust him. He has uploaded hundreds of images with not just missing, but deliberatly falsified licenses. At this point I think it's safe to assume that every image he uploads is stolen unless there's a clear indication that it's legit. Azov 11:30, 14 January 2007 (UTC)

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Hello! As there is already an only proposed Wikipedia guideline on naming conventions (Cyrillic). The proposal is still in development, under discussion and needs of gathering consensus for adoption. Since I am well experienced on this subject, I would like to criticize the official transliteration of Bulgarian as it gives too many errors, which also causes some losses of sounds “ǎ (a hacek”), decentralise itself from other slavic languages (“c” and “š” voices), which is also conflicting in itself (see street signs 1 and 2). By this revision, it is away from being accurate and not able to satisfy the needs of an encyclopedia which claims to be scientifical. These are the reasons I invite you to read Scientific transliteration of Cyrillic and involve the discussion in order to contribute a possible concensus. Wish to see you here thanks Manaviko (talk) 13:21, 5 April 2016 (UTC)

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