Among the speakers at the seafront dinner for the foreign press earlier this year was Peter Malhotra, publisher of the local English-language newspaper, the Pattaya Mail.
Soon after the publication of the Russian article, Quijada began to receive a steady stream of letters from e-mail addresses ending in .ru, peppering him with arcane questions and requesting changes to the language to make its words easier to pronounce.
"With language in the appropriation bill for over 30 years, the consensus is that the Postal Service must deliver mail on Saturdays, " Ms. Goldway said.