NAC - need someone who can read Russian

[Mike Arman]

I want to thank everyone who helped and offered to help on the Russian 
lottery ticket I asked about last week.

It turned out to be exactly that - a lottery ticket.


I won - a free trip to Moscow and St. Petersburg, a one hour interview 
with Vladimir Putin, a 5,000,000 Rouble gift certificate to the 
Hermitage gift shop in St. Petersburg, unlimited rail travel for 30 
days, a test flight in the TU-144, and a three day weekend with one Ms. 
Onatopa, who as you recall was the deliciously depraved villainness in 
the James Bond flick Golden Eye.

And a new Audi S8L V12, twin turbocharged, in silver grey - the 
bulletproof model . . . and the fuel to run it for a year. (MAC)

Sigh.


As it turns out, like most lottery tickets, it didn't win anything. The 
beneficiaries of this particular lottery are the remaining veterans of 
the Great Patriotic War (WW2 to us), most of whom are trying to survive 
on tiny Soviet era pensions in a post-Soviet (expensive) world. Spare 
them a thought, they could use it.


Best Regards,

Mike Arman
90 V8Q
(Who sometimes forgets just how lucky and well off he/we is/are.)