Pardon my acronyms...

[alexpgp]

I am mildly amused at encountering the following:

производственный отдел по хранению и учету ядерных материалов

(which means, roughly, "nuclear material storage and accountability production department") if only because the given Russian acronym - which does not take account of the one- or two-letter words - carries with it about the same eyebrow-raising qualities as might be derived from reading the acronym for, say, an "all-weather special headquarters insertion team."

Cheers...

Comments

[bdunbar.livejournal.com]

Is that an actual sense of humor at work? In a bureaucracy?

[alexpgp.livejournal.com]

Very possibly. I subsequently did a Google and Yandex search on the term and came up empty, which strongly suggests that neither the term nor, ahem, the acronym is in use outside the document I'm dealing with.

Cheers...

nuclear material storage

[raffaz.livejournal.com]

Hi Alex, it's decisively a joke.

Re: nuclear material storage

[alexpgp.livejournal.com]

Thanks! (...and welcome back from Baikonur!)

Cheers...