At the Registrar's Office

Around eleven when it is getting hot a Vellakaran[1] with a stylish jacket and shiny black shoes arrives in a cycle riksha and goes in to see the Registrar. One chaparasi brings tea for them, another calls me in.

Die alten Griechen und die Römer schrieben ohne Zwischenräume zwischen, was wir Wörter nennen, und ohne Punkt und Komma:

From Wikipedia:

Vladimir Vladimirovich Mazur (Russian: Владимир Владимирович Мазур; born 19 June 1966) is a Russian statesman, who is serving as the 3rd governor of Tomsk Oblast since 22 September 2022. ... Mazur is a member of Vladimir Putin's United Russia party...

Mazur was born...

(click on the picture to hear the song)

Ласковый май (Laskoviy May / Tender May is the mind-boggling story of Sergey Kuznetsov and Vyacheslav Ponomarev who started Russia's first boys' band 1989 in a juvenile institution at Orenburg near the border of today's Kazakhstan with thirteen years old singer Yuri Shatunov, a runaway from Bashkortostan.