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Hot Properties:

• The Comprehensive Russian Computer Dictionary -- the one and only compiled by Paul Druker and Yury Avrutin, published and distributed by the IEEE Computer Society Press. Whoa, a mouthful but sure is handy when you got to talk to them damn, unreformed, pinky commies and try to get your US Government-issued computers back from the KGB.
• Fiction and short stories written by Yury Avrutin -- unpublished manuscripts by yours truly and I'm always looking for a good publisher. Interested? -- mail me.
• Gooney Mooney N5774Q -- needs a paint job but flies nicely among the clouds in the blue skies.
• Adventures of Mowgli -- produced by Rebecca Nunberg and Yury Avrutin released by Cyrillic Films, this exciting new version of full-length animated feature based on Rudyard Kipling's Jungle Book, combines classical Russian cell animation from the world-famous Souzmultfilm Studio with all-new voice track by Charlton Heston, Sam Elliot, and Dana Delaney, and original music and songs by Tom Keenlyside and John Mitche. Available from Amazon.
• Sculpture of Moscow artist Oleg Slepov -- even after the perestrioka Russian art is alive and well. The artists are starving, of course, but that's a healthy sign of a budding democracy.

Life Stranger Than Fiction:

• The last American Spies of the Cold War -- Murmansk Incident of the summer of 1992. It all began North of the Russian Arctic Circle...
• Cornered in Barnes & Noble -- New York Magazine, hot on the trail in December 1994. Look for Waldo, he's wearing red-and-black.
• Who's the Frequency's Ken(neth)? -- New York Magazine suggests a solution to the question of what, indeed, may have happened to Dan Rather before R.E.M. got him.

Autographed Web Pages

• ILSI's Distributed Revision Tracking System -- Confucius says, "take DRTS twice daily for all those pesky software configuration management chores." You got people spread across networks? You got people writing software? You have to maintain multiple release configurations? You need this!

Memory lane -- these used to work but the sites shut down

• Don Williams Music Group -- This is where Jimi Hendrix lives now. Work in progress: On-line Music Licensing System, I-Team.
• Boris Grebenshikov -- Russian rocker from the bad, old Soviet days. Rony Regan didn't do it, it's Boris who fell the Evil Empire.
• BelCom, Inc., corporate propoganda -- for those memorable occasions when you just have to fax home while camping out in Siberia. They'll get you a T1, if you ask nicely. Very nicely, that is.

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