One curious thing about the alphabet is that it includes the letters І, Ѣ, Ѳ, Ѵ which had been phased out of the Russian alphabet following the orthography reform of 1918 and were afterwards regarded as a vestige of the “old regime”.
If you were a native Russian, your would look out not for malice but rather for negligence and indifference on part of the authorities. Which is why I, for one, think the right question to ask is: how did it come that a person so evidently in distress could not be located quickly in a place like that? No doubt, Losiny Ostrov is a large park (it is about the same size as Pinnacles State Park in California), but it is surrounded on all sides by urbanized territory and should have excellent mobile coverage. Given that Chervonenkis had a phone on him, couldn't Search and Rescue have the mobile provider determine his location (qv. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_phone_tracking) with at least the accuracy that would allow for a small ground team to find him?
That's a good question. Loeb's primary strength (apart from its exceptional typographics) is that it puts original texts side by side with translations, making it easier for a reader to make sense of the Greek or Latin source by comparing it to English. I'm not aware of any widely accepted digital formats for parallel prose that Loeb could offer for download; PDF or DejaVu have their obvious drawbacks; so that would probably leave us with some proprietary stuff, sadly.
