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Note added at 5 days (2009-05-20 13:03:59 GMT) Post-grading
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Glad to be of help.

Я тоже – иностранец (и, в свете Вашего замечания, очень тому рад)
1. I don't see my comment as a slight but as a rather objective observation: Russia, doubtless, IS a relatively low-tech country; and the term "engineer" IS widely abused there. So, where's the lesse majeste?
2. Вот такая я сволочь! Your reaction is exactly what I don't like about many Russians: a chip on the showlder, aggressive parocchialism and imposing forced patriotism on everybody with "russian-sounding" surnames.
3. Be it as it may, Jesus, am I glad that I'm far away and you can't report me to some glorious good citizens' organization – to be sent somewhere chilly for re-education and forced improvement of my patriotic spirit! Or simply shoot me at dawn за измену родине...

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Note added at 5 days (2009-05-20 15:34:45 GMT) Post-grading
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Well, then, there should be no love lost between you and the Russkies. There are, of course, Ukrainians and Ukrainians, but on the whole I don't think anyone likes to be a colony.
If I liked Russia, I would've been still living there... Even as I child I started noticing that WE have invented EVERYTHING. The first air flight–Mozhajskij – not Write brothers; Radio – Popov – not Marconi; Even the light bulb – Jablochkov–not Edisson. And I couldn't understand, if WE're so clever why is there so much shit, blood, drunken savagery and, last but not least, appalling dental hygiene? And now I see Russians coming here – "orientalised": barbarians as always... and whatever you tell them or whatever they see, starts from a hair-rising (to me) refren: а у нас... А “у вас“, раньше мочили по лагерям, а теперь по подъездам и, по словам самого гебешного Цезаря – в сортирах. Вступайте ка вы, хохлы, в НАТО, пока не поздно!