Hello Michael!

13 Jan 05 08:23, you wrote to me:

 MH>>>>> Anyway, what did you really mean?
 BS>>>> Do you still call ex-USSR USSR?
 MH>>> Just when referring to the times of USSR. The same with cities
 MH>>> which changed their names. For example, St.Petersburg was
 MH>>> Leningrad till 1991. So I say "I visited Leningrad in
1988" and
 MH>>> "I visited St.Peterburg in 1993".
 BS>> Two words for the same city. :)

 MH> A lot of cities were renamed after communist revolution in 1917. Great
 MH> part of them were renamed back to their original names after USSR was
 MH> cancelled in 1991;

Aha.

 MH> some cities have kept "new" names however (for ex.,
 MH> Ulyanovsk named after V.Ulyanov-Lenin was Simbirsk before 1917 but now
 MH> it's still Ulyanovsk).

But not for Skt. Pedersburg?

 BS>> You where in Skt. Pedersburg right after the federation was born?

 MH> Huh? Which federation was born? You mean USSR was disintegrated? Then
 MH> yes. Russian Federation wasn't born then, it existed inside USSR too.

Aha.. I should have been written "the new federation".

 MH> USSR was a federation of 15 republics, 2 of them, Russia and Georgia,
 MH> were federations too. Or may be Ukraine was a federation too, I don't
 MH> remember whether Crimea had a status of autonomous republic inside
 MH> Ukraine.

Aha.. Is there any fidonet nodes in Georgia?

Bo


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