Balkanization -- full steam ahead [LWN.net]

Balkanization -- full steam ahead

Posted Oct 23, 2024 7:44 UTC (Wed) by riking (guest, #95706)
In reply to: Balkanization -- full steam ahead by s_vlad
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It's also clearly the highest / newest subscription # on the page.

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Balkanization -- full steam ahead

Posted Oct 23, 2024 8:23 UTC (Wed) by Wol (subscriber, #4433) [Link] (1 responses)

Yeltsin has been around for a while. I don't know when I first noticed him, but it's a good long time.

(Disclaimer - I may be a russophile, but I am no fan whatsoever of their leadership ...)

And while I don't particularly understand Russian names (I understand they emphasise patronymics over surnames), Yeltsin could easily be a fairly common name?

Cheers,
Wol

Balkanization -- full steam ahead

Posted Oct 23, 2024 9:11 UTC (Wed) by dottedmag (subscriber, #18590) [Link]

Yeltsin is quite uncommon surname — beyond the Russia's 1st president and his family there don't seem to be any public figures bearing this surname, and a cursory check at https://forebears.io/surnames/eltsyn makes it _very_ uncommon.

(for the reference, I was born in USSR in 1983)