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Oleg Smirnov
Dec 28, 2015, 6:42:51 AM12/28/15
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<http://tinyurl.com/gt7oc67> therakyatpost.com
MOSCOW, Dec 16, 2015
Russian banks yesterday began to issue the first national payment card as an
alternative to Visa and Mastercard, an idea championed after Western sanctions
left some consumers unable to make card purchases.
The "Mir" card - a name that could be translated both as "peace" and "world" -
was issued by a string of banks, among them Gazprombank, Rossiya bank and
others blacklisted by the West ..
The emission and distribution of the card mark a "most important stage in
ensuring the country's financial sovereignty," said a statement by the
National System of Payment Cards .. in a bid to reduce dependance on the West.
...
Mir comes from the same PIE verb - to bind / tie - as the Indo-Iranian deity
Mitrah. Initially mir meant nonantagonistic, stable coexistence / environment.
One can not find 'conclude a peace [treaty]' or 'achieve a peace' in the old
Russian chronicles of the 10 century. Their phrasing is rather 'create a mir'
or 'build a mir'. Less often they use expressions prototypical to the present
day 'come in mir/peace' and 'the whole mir/world'. Three separate meanings of
the same mir - peace, world, community - were derived later.
Such a situation isn't unique for the Russian language, in the post-Romance
ones, for example, 'Pax Foobarana' would be essentially similar to 'Foobaran
World' <http://tinyurl.com/pzs4fgr>.
Tolstoy titled his known novel 'War and Mir' in order to include not only war
vs peace but also war vs people / world. These meanings are in one. Gogol's
Mirgorod <http://vurl.com/5yZzx> was a town that really existed, but he chose
this name also to imply generalization, i.e. a story about a place somewhere
in the mir where some mir are living in mir.
> <http://rbth.com/business/2015/10/28/eu-tastes-bitter-fruit-of-sanctions-war_534615>
>
> EU tastes bitter fruit of sanctions war
MOSCOW, Dec 16, 2015
Russian banks yesterday began to issue the first national payment card as an
alternative to Visa and Mastercard, an idea championed after Western sanctions
left some consumers unable to make card purchases.
The "Mir" card - a name that could be translated both as "peace" and "world" -
was issued by a string of banks, among them Gazprombank, Rossiya bank and
others blacklisted by the West ..
The emission and distribution of the card mark a "most important stage in
ensuring the country's financial sovereignty," said a statement by the
National System of Payment Cards .. in a bid to reduce dependance on the West.
...
Mir comes from the same PIE verb - to bind / tie - as the Indo-Iranian deity
Mitrah. Initially mir meant nonantagonistic, stable coexistence / environment.
One can not find 'conclude a peace [treaty]' or 'achieve a peace' in the old
Russian chronicles of the 10 century. Their phrasing is rather 'create a mir'
or 'build a mir'. Less often they use expressions prototypical to the present
day 'come in mir/peace' and 'the whole mir/world'. Three separate meanings of
the same mir - peace, world, community - were derived later.
Such a situation isn't unique for the Russian language, in the post-Romance
ones, for example, 'Pax Foobarana' would be essentially similar to 'Foobaran
World' <http://tinyurl.com/pzs4fgr>.
Tolstoy titled his known novel 'War and Mir' in order to include not only war
vs peace but also war vs people / world. These meanings are in one. Gogol's
Mirgorod <http://vurl.com/5yZzx> was a town that really existed, but he chose
this name also to imply generalization, i.e. a story about a place somewhere
in the mir where some mir are living in mir.
> <http://rbth.com/business/2015/10/28/eu-tastes-bitter-fruit-of-sanctions-war_534615>
>
> EU tastes bitter fruit of sanctions war
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