Telegrams are a useful and reliable mechanism for 
            communications.  Note that the Russian communications system 
            differentiates among telegraph, teletype, and telex.  The Russian 
            term "TELEGRAPH" refers to a telegraphic  address using the city 
            communications center, which delivers the telegram (comparable to 
            sending a telegram via Western Union in the U.S.).  The Russian 
            term "TELETYPE" relates to the internal NIS (former Soviet Union) 
            telecommunications system which connects directly to a terminal at 
            an enterprise.  The keyboard and printer can handle only Cyrillic 
            type (or the "Cyrillic alphabet").  Finally the Russian term 
            "TELEX" means the international telex telecommunications system 
            directly to a terminal at an enterprise.  The keyboard and printer 
            are usually handle Latin characters.  Some private information 
            enterprises and most likely some city telecommunications centers 
            offer a service of providing a manual interface between the Telex 
            and Teletype or Telegraph systems.


 -- The Department of Commerce, Government of the U.S.