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140. Russia Modern Local Typeface Error
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| Lookie! A new place! Not really, but has anyone noticed that on some of the modern Russian "locals" that there's a bizarre typographical error where the Cyrillic R ("P") is replaced by the Greek "D" (delta)? Thus "Evreskaya Respublika" becomes "Evdeskaya Despublika", or "Ostrov Sakhalin" becomes "Ostdov Sakhalin", etc., etc. One wonders how such an error occurred, and also why it was not caught. |
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From the Salm Foundation Report (see on Askphil) : "Since there are so many labels purporting to be stamps from the Russian Republics, we thought it a good idea to list the 15 legitimate republics. There are no others as of 1996. For the record, they are: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Estonia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrghizstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Russia, Tadjikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine and Uzbekistan." The Jew republic (once socialist and sovietic) has always been a fiction under the Soviet Union regime. It has no more legal existence now. Nor postal, nor political. As for the typographical error, I think the explanation is very simple. They were probably made by an occidental printer, who did not knew the cyrillic alphabet, and could not see the error (or did not mind...) [Helene Sarrazin] |