Dear Haema

How is it going? Sorry for being silent. It�s just to compensate my fount of eloquence if I can put it in like this (adopting your sarcastic tone).
It�s been a hard time. And I slept only for 6 hours two nights running.
Well concerning poetry and lawyers. I guess it goes perfectly well together. It�s all about words and sentences... especially in Russia...
Also I�d like to quote Shelley (I�m reading him now) �But poets are not only the authors of language and of music? Of dance and architecture? And statuary and painting: they are the intitutors of law and the founders of civil society�.
As far as I can see this project has been launched recently and it covers the majority of the essational spheres of humans life. Unfortunately there is no such topic as politics. Would be quite interesting to watch a real �poetry of human relations� between English and Iranian fellows. Just before the planning and quite possible force actions. (Only China and the RF, the permanent members of the security counsil of the UN are against right now). However the history teaches us that it doesn�t matter since Mr Bash (I name him like this on purpose) wants to promote peace and democracy in the �fight for civilasation�. It always makes me laugh such an expresion like old Soviet-style logo �A fight for peace�
By the way a word �peace� and a word �world� will be the same in russian. It�s �MIR�. The second part of the my name-vladimir. It�s a slavic name, combined of two words and it could be translated like �the owner of the world�. That guy of a russian original who wrote a profile of Russia, stated that it all came from Kiev. And it was Vladimir (The red sun) who baptized ancient Rus in 988 since the birth of Christ.
I�d like to correct some details. Yes Bolshiviks took power in the autumn of 1917 because of a revolt (it wasn�t a revolution they just came to Zimniy ex Tsar residance and said that the provisional government was arrested.The only security was a women�s battalion and cadets some of them ran away). Cruiser Avrora fired a salvo like a signal for the begining of actions. It was a blank shot. There is a joke here. �What is the most powerful weapon in the world?�
The answer is Avrora. One blank shot and 70 years of destruction. The Soviet power existed for 74 years. But the Soviet Union was formed in 1922 and collaped in 1991. It�s 15 year anniversary nowdays.
Lenin (another Vladimir) was a German spy. At least he got money from German Impire for revolutionary work so that make Russian Impire leave the first world war. German authoritize let the wagon go through its territory with Lenin and his band when he was coming to Russia in the spring of 1917 after having spent 16 years abroad in political immigration (mostly in Switzeland). They wanted the best � you know the rest...
Being a lawyer by profession ( however after losing all his few cases) he is know for a phrase about them �We need to hold advocates in the iron hands, because this intelligence barstards often put spokes in the wheels�. I�ve translated in the polite way. The original is �...eta intelegentskaja svoloch chasto paskudnichaet�.
And now about the weather. Haema you seem like a real english lady starting our conversation with the weather. (almost literally what a disgusting weather is over there, isn�t it?)
Well my friend says it�s better to enjoy a sunny spring day with 0 degrees rather than be washed away from the isle because of the grobal warming.
But if being serious there is a saying in russian language �Martok- odevai semero portok� IF IT�S MARCH- PUT ON SEVEN PANS�. A primitive short rhyme describing the law of the national weather is the simple poetic folk wisdom.
Cheers
P.S. I�d like our letters be less formal (we're not in the court) and I�ll answer your questions tomorrow. What area of law are you in?