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To: Oblomov who wrote (61520)	5/20/2006 12:22:39 PM
From: skinowski	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110194

LOL! "Izvestia" means more or less "News", and Pravda means "truth" - and those, of course, were the names of the 2 main Soviet national newspapers -- so, the idea of this joke (which could easily land a person in trouble back in those days) is that there was no news in "pravda", and no "pravda" in the news... ;)

To: Oblomov who wrote (61520)	5/20/2006 3:38:29 PM
From: kris b	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110194

I thought it was "no news in Izvestia, no truth in Pravda. It is no truth in Izvestia(news) and no news in Pravda(truth)

To: Oblomov who wrote (61520)	5/20/2006 9:36:15 PM
From: Elroy Jetson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110194

There is no news in Pravda, nor any truth in Izvestia. Which should be something like, I believe part of the joke was that Pravda was usually a single bi-fold page, hardly containing room for much of anything - including news, true or otherwise. Izvestia had a smaller circulation and was usually able to requisition enough paper to print more pages. .