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February New stainless steel barrier posts have appeared in the city.  In Ukraine, you can buy a personalized license plate number with your own text. What’s wonderful is that the letters you can use aren’t limited to the twelve characters shared by the Cyrillic and Latin alphabet, as is the case in Russia.  The Saint Petersburg “ices” (as they call icicles) have arrived in Kiev and translated themselves into Ukrainian. As of this year, a “burulka” has become a “burulya.” Now the municipal utilities aren’t just messing around with some minor, unimportant burulkas—they’re addressing a serious burulya issue. (Note: “-ka” is a diminutive suffix in many Slavic languages, often used to add a meaning of smallness or cuteness to a noun. A similar example in English is the suffix “-y,” as in: daddy, kitty, thingy.)  Careful!!! Falling ices!!! This beautiful artifact from the Soviet era was a wonderful discovery. The observant archaeologist will note the six-digit phone number and retro construction tools and machinery. You won’t see excavators with this kind of bucket anymore, and picks are also rarely used these days. 
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