Yes, I got to thinking about the other meanings for meridional, which makes me not like it so much. I think I'm going to settle on "east-west" and "north-south" for the respective Russian terms.

What's with this Richard of York fella? How about just plain ROY G BIV? (Roy's a great guy, and his old man owns "Biv's Bar" just down the street.)

OTOH, make no bones about it, some criminals have underestimated Royal Canadian Mounted Police. :^)

Cheers...