Legend of the Peeing briton. Павел Тюрин

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Parex Banka was founded in 1992 by Valery Kargin and Viktor Krasovicky as a privately owned full-service banking company in Riga, Latvia. The 15 September 2008 failure of the US economy led to a sharp drop in liquidity and international investors began to withdraw assets. The Latvian government was forced to buy out Parex’s liabilities. The total costs to the Latvian government is estimated at more than a billion dollars, making it a factor in a 2008–2010 Latvian financial crisis

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‘Never seen this before’ – the Russian version of the ultra fashion magazine: ‘Shockingly!’

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Academic newspaper: ‘Bricotheque’.

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In the original Russian text the Brit is ‘британец’ which indeed can be broken into ‘БРИ-танец’ or the BRI-dance in English.

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Garic Sukachov is a famous Russian rock singer known for his uncouth appearance and shocking behaviour.

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Driving journal ‘If uncertain – do not chase!’

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Based on the materials from the police journal ‘Hands up!’.

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The Crime Herald ‘Crimes classified as ‘None of Your Business!’’

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The International Amnesty organization bulletin ‘AMIN’ dedicated to the violations of Human Rights.

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As it happened the guests sometimes broke the rule, but Blockhed did not mind. He thought rather justly that if the laws remain unbroken they would never change, leave alone people.

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The substantial library of the castle had books on many different topics. Besides, there was a shelf dedicated to the publications produced by the many generations of Blockheads. The golden imprints on the leather-bound manuscripts spoke of the thoughtfulness of their authors. Here are some examples:

– ‘Does a man owe the truth? To the ones that he owes!’

– ‘About the impossibility of love for order.’

– ‘Body and rights of the human person.’

– ‘Perpendicularity of the consciousness.’

– ‘The happiness of the motion advancing and the terrors of the one receding’.

– Two volumes of poetry: ‘The Innermost’ and ‘The Darkermost’.

The pages of these books were completely blank, empty, as if it was he, Richard who was meant to write the texts instead of their authors.

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Yewdo the Wonder, the Wonderful Creature. The name Yewdo in Ainu (lit. ‘the real person’) means a monster which calls into mind the Howard’s point of view. He believed that the Sakhalin indigenous people ‘Ainu’ were the offsprings of the Jews who had ended up in the Japanese isles during the ancient, olden times’. Howard, B.D. (1893) ‘Life with Trans-Siberian Savages’.