In message <Pine.BSF.3.96.980219151333.11129D-100000@beast.gu.net> Andrew Stesin writes:
I meant just the following effect of the Soviet Union: 6 years are not enough for a new generation who knows English rather than Russia; not enough to get old communications completely changed.
Please leave alone this old crap about English/Russian language. If you are a LIR (and RIR serves LIRs) you ought to know English, point. If you don't know English, you are the customer of a LIR where staff is more knowlegeable.
I agree with these words about tech. persons, but business isn't only technical questions. We (tech-c) have no troubles with RIPE, but can't say this about my financial department and billing@ripe.net. Moreover, I have to point, there are much more difficulties with solving financial problems, mostly idiotic, with RIPE as a public organisation, then with our other foreign commercial partners. The post-soviet financial rules are too far from european. -- D.Mishin