[ripe-167] Impressions brought from Moscow meeting

In message <Pine.BSF.3.96.980219151333.11129D-100000 at beast.gu.net>
    Andrew Stesin writes:

>> I meant just the following effect of the Soviet Union: 6 years are
>> not enough for a new generation who knows English rather than
>> Russia; not enough to get old communications completely changed.

>	Please leave alone this old crap about English/Russian
>	language.  If you are a LIR (and RIR serves LIRs) you
>	ought to know English, point.  If you don't know
>	English, you are the customer of a LIR where staff
>	is more knowlegeable.

I agree with these words about tech. persons, but business isn't
only technical questions.  We (tech-c) have no troubles with RIPE, but 
can't say this about my financial department and billing at ripe.net.
Moreover, I have to point, there are much more difficulties with solving
financial problems, mostly idiotic, with RIPE as a public organisation,
then with our other foreign commercial partners. The post-soviet financial
rules are too far from european. 
-- 
D.Mishin