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To everybody on my flist who's out there, getting menaced by hurricanes: I am thinking of you! Be safe! Keep up the fight! Don't let that underworldly Vanka* get you!
*Russian diminutives: Ivan => Vanya; -ka instead of -ya is almost always a pejorative. St. Petersburg noblemen who referred to Rasputin as "Grishka", for example, were sorta calling him "that despicable peasant Grigori whatnot" with that.
*Russian diminutives: Ivan => Vanya; -ka instead of -ya is almost always a pejorative. St. Petersburg noblemen who referred to Rasputin as "Grishka", for example, were sorta calling him "that despicable peasant Grigori whatnot" with that.