Perfectly irrelevant, Tom. 
And when you get over trying to score cheap points, you can view the map: http://www.kis-orca.eu/map#.WTSKGG4lHIU.
I'm not the one that needs to look at a map 
Hi Sean
You and I first met when i was at OIA about 1992 LOONG TIME ago
Always thought of you as brilliant collector of info as well as analyst there of
this question of yours is absolutely brilliant
look at the responses (more) than 45!!!
I have just scanned this whole thread - it is the most amazing analysis of technical details I have e ver seen
national security also
sean I am taking this in the sense of what the hell could these russian diplomats be doing?
I have been a nanog reader since this list began in the spring of 1995 i believe
remember i am parsing comments from the russian side as well
i met aleksei soldatov at the kurchatov institute for the first time in april 1992. about 3 days earlier i met the demos guys who told soldatov suggested to soldatov that he should met me at kurchatov
I followed the development of the russian internet very closely between April 1992 and 1999 not much after that.
meanwhile i am
well aware of international fiber optic cables geographic issues of same — see telegeography for example, His coordinates etc
interception of cable via submarine etc
see the US Sub named Jimmy carter
I visited Russia for the first time in 1964
my dissertation completed in 1972
dis on site work for the Phd in Russia for 2 months summer of 1970
including pushkinskii Dom
Thanks to steve Goldstein of NSF I received an invite to attend the second Nato sponsored conference on the future e of the russian internet met larry land weber there at Golitsyno - the conf was sept 30 to Oct 2 1994
The point? I have long experience with my Cook Report on Internet Protocol in April 1992 issue #1
and an even lon\ger experience with russian history language and culture
I am also well aware this message will be readable by a ver large number of people both here and abroad.
even visited the westin bldg In i think 1994.
take a bow Sean!!
I pretended to be a Russian diplomat today.
Tim
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