PL> I dunno... when I was in school I remember Northern Asia being
 PL> described pretty much as everything west of the Ukraine, at
 PL> least until the fall of the USSR.

 PL> Maybe boundaries have seemed to change by politics but I don;t
 PL> subscribe to it.  Seems an awful westward stretch fromt he
 PL> Europe and Asia I was taught about.

well, what i was headed towards is that the old USSR and most of russia are
west and north of china... it cover(s/ed) from the eastern boundry of the
UK/Europe all the way to the Pacific Ocean and is actually very close to
alaska at one point... closer to alaska than china is, anyway...

)\/(ark