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Old 03-December-2002, 04:14 PM
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On 2002-12-03 11:36, Valiant Dancer wrote:

Ex-patriate Soviets had a running gag concerning the name of the paper. Pravda means Truth in Russian.
There was another paper called "Izvestia", for "news". A derivative gag was: "On Pravda there's no Izvestia; on Izvestia there's no Pravda".