Fingerprints

Seriousely? Yes, I am angry with the policy of taking fingerprints (or rather finger scans) of innocent people. It is inhumilating. I remember once I told to my American friend that I am not going to the States untill they ban getting fingerprints in the airport or embassy... And now, I was forced to 'give my fingers' to leave Yerevan airport... Then, they also scanned my hand when I applied for the French visa. I guess some measures are needed, but sth is wrong here.

Jean-David Levitte

Who is he, that new advisor of Sarkozy in international affairs? :) Well, I've read an interesting article about him in Le Monde. His ancestors are coming from Russian Empire, according to the newspaper his father was Russian while his mother was from South Africa ("Son père était russe, sa mère sud-africaine"). But then there is an interesting sentence: "Sa famille a été éprouvée par les événements du XXe siècle. Du côté de son père : des Russes blancs [White Russians?], émigrés en France après la révolution bolchevique." Literally, does it mean that his father family was from White Russia or Belarus? :D Well, it's sth I would like to find out!