1. The russia regulations include a list of names of persons for which the Governor in Council considers there are reasonable grounds to believe that they are connected with the Government of Russia. Is anybody familiar with the Russian building code, SNIP - in the Snow Loads chapter talks about a reliability coefficient. Are they referring to a load factor as in LRFD? In other words is the design philosophy of this code LRFD and is this reliabilty factor what we in the US call a load factor.