elementai··on Non-English-based programming languagesAnd yet there's a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1C:Enterprise being a leading software suite in Russia. It's source code terrifies me every time.
elementai··on Vasili ArkhipovAnd then there are stories that automated systems have this power too, like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Hand_%28nuclear_war%29
elementai··on Lavabit abruptly shuts downIt took me a while to understand that you probably mean Iceland.
elementai··on Snowden granted 1-year asylum in Russia, leaves airportInitially it was a term for an upper living floor in a rather big medieval russian house. Like a penthouse. After some time it became a synonym for a such house with "terem".
elementai··on Yandex CTO and co-founder has diedYandex was created a bit earlier than Google actually.