13 MAY 1989, Page 26

Mysterious

Sir: Auberon Waugh (Another voice, 29 April) ridicules someone who explained to him 'how glasnost and perestroika were cunning ploys, hiding a new determination on the part of the Soviet Union'. Let me put it in a way that even Mr Waugh can understand: I have a bottle of Chateau d'Yquem 1949 waiting to be sent to his mysterious interlocutor as soon as his name and address are revealed.

Andrei Navrozov

55 Castle Street, Cambridge