I just wondered, thanks for replying.
As for my name, I came up with it (really late at night, I should add) because, although I am not Russian by birth, my mother is a Russian immigrant. I picked this as my name because, oddly enough, I always found it very interesting that my father, an American, would marry her. Technically, it should be The 50% Russian, but that sounds a little silly. (About my avatar: I picked it because of another thing she says about the country, which is that while the communist system was often abused by the Soviet presidents, it worked better than what the Russian Federation has now, with the dramatically increased poverty rates, prostitution rates, crime rates, and more.)
My sub-name... Heck, I like hockey. No big political statement there.
