Russia wipes California from its map

**kazthorn** · 01-08-2008, 07:52 AM

MOSCOW (Reuters) - California will no longer exist on the Russian map.
Russia 's north-western region of Nizhny Novgorod has decided to eliminate the tiny village of California due to the lack of inhabitants, Itar-Tass news agency reported on Thursday.
The village was set up in the 19th century by a Russian landowner as a snub to the government for selling Alaska to the United States in 1867, Tass said.
The once vibrant village has been in decline since the Soviet collapse, with the last of its residents leaving in 2000 to seek better lives elsewhere.
It will now officially cease to exist as a geographical unit but it was unclear if its buildings, including a school, would also be destroyed.
Thousands of villages, abandoned by people moving to cities, are scattered across Russia , many in ruins but some frozen in time, their wooden huts unchanged for decades.

Now if we could wipe off the other one.....

**TheGuru** · 01-08-2008, 08:44 AM

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Originally Posted by kazthorn

MOSCOW (Reuters) - California will no longer exist on the Russian map.

Now if we could wipe off the other one.....

We cant loose the other one as we would loose half of the worlds stupid stories

**fifi2004** · 03-08-2008, 03:13 PM

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Originally Posted by TheGuru

We cant loose the other one as we would loose half of the worlds stupid stories

LOL...Don't forget "The Terminator". Who would take him, and where would he go?

**sweetums** · 05-08-2008, 10:16 PM

Brilliant

Maybe Arnie could move to Scotland - there is a place called California near Falkirk and a place called Moscow, in Ayrshire (near Kilmarnock).
You could actually visit both places in one day!