Hi Everyone,
Well, the Olympics have closed but it appears that the Russian complaining about them will last till doom cracks. Today's "Izvestia", a national newspaper, leads with the headline "Oh sport, you are war!" and continues to accuse the Americans of rigging everything for themselves and friendly nations. For example, it makes the blatant accusation that the U.S. set up Sara Hughes' victory in the women's figure skating (disregarding the fact that the Italian judge had ranked the Russian Svetlana Slutskaya fourth, but whatever...) as well as spearheading the movement to issue two pairs figure skating golds rather than the one. Ah well, let 'em complain, I guess.
As for the US-Russia hockey game, a few other crazy students and I stayed up to watch it live on Russian TV (it started at 2 a.m.). I had feared that being an American in an all-Russian environment would be akin to watching a Red Sox game in the South Bronx, but surprisingly, the locals were actually quite pleasant and hurled no moronic insults at the opposition (such as my favorite Yankee Stadium "insult": "Go back to Haaaaahvahd!"
Anyway, I'm getting cut off here. The Internet at the cafe is acting weirdly.
Gotta go.
Matt
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Sem - dlya gnomov, tsaryashchikh v podgornom prosmore;
Devyat - smertnym, chey vyveren srok i udel,
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