On Fri, 20 Feb 1998, Sergey A. Mukhin wrote:
There can be just "pro" or "contra" for given statement at given moment. Think speaking about "CIS" instead of "Russia" is a good idea.
If say in year 2000 CIS will be denounced and go to Attic, what will you do? (HINT: continents and other geographical entities are much more neutral in all respects :)
There is another point -- think if we need to create something it would be much better if it will not be just Russian.
Better for whom? and how you define what is "better" and what is "worse"? (Write a solid document, guys, we'll discuss *it* than; no sense of continuing any discussion on the topic until the new document will be out at least as a draft).
I cannot invent the name for it right now ( and hope there are people able doing that much better than me ) but IMHO it should _not_ have "Russian" as a part of its name.
If it is done following the initiative from Russia, for Russians and Russian-speakers, without a positive contribution of anyone else -- it *is* Russian, no matter how you call it.
And for that matter it makes no "political" difference if it will be established not in Russia at all. That is again the technical matters and if I got Ukrainian representatives at that meeting right, Ukraine either has no wish to arrange it right now or no possibility.
We don't feel the need of doing this. Russia(ns) do.
No need for it. And no possibility for that matter. We can just try to convince somebody if they do not refuse flatly ( as you did ).
Ok, we are waiting for a new better and solid document. Show it to us, and we'll (probably) start thinking on it...
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