Archive for July, 2005

We spent half of the day today/yesterday at Afisha Magazine’s Picnic – very nice, so many young, good-looking people, no alcohol and no drunks, fresh air, barbeque… Not interesting to take pictures at all – I was upset at first, thought something was wrong with me, until Mishah told me that two professional photographers, very [...]

We spent half of the day today/yesterday at Afisha Magazine’s Picnic – very nice, so many young, good-looking people, no alcohol and no drunks, fresh air, barbeque… Not interesting to take pictures at all – I was upset at first, thought something was wrong with me, until Mishah told me that two professional photographers, very [...]

A very happy day today: I’ve finally found and bought Masha Gessen’s book, Two Babushkas, at a small English-language bookstore on Myasnitskaya, the John Parsons Bookshop.
I saw the book lying there the moment I entered the place; I grabbed it and went straight to the cashier’s. I told the saleswoman I’d been looking for [...]

A very happy day today: I’ve finally found and bought Masha Gessen’s book, Two Babushkas, at a small English-language bookstore on Myasnitskaya, the John Parsons Bookshop.
I saw the book lying there the moment I entered the place; I grabbed it and went straight to the cashier’s. I told the saleswoman I’d been looking for [...]

True to his old, positive, self, Yushchenko has made a reconciliation phone call to Serhiy Leshchenko at Ukrainska Pravda today.
According to Leshchenko (in Ukrainian), they talked about the situation around Yushchenko’s son and ended up having a symbolic handshake over the phone.

True to his old, positive, self, Yushchenko has made a reconciliation phone call to Serhiy Leshchenko at Ukrainska Pravda today.
According to Leshchenko (in Ukrainian), they talked about the situation around Yushchenko’s son and ended up having a symbolic handshake over the phone.

I woke up with this very lucid thought today: Yushchenko never seemed to pretend he and his family didn’t have enough money.
He’s a former banker; his hobby, collecting antiques, is – potentially, though not necessarily – an expensive one; his wife isn’t some working class American girl, etc. The seeming populism of his decision to [...]

I woke up with this very lucid thought today: Yushchenko never seemed to pretend he and his family didn’t have enough money.
He’s a former banker; his hobby, collecting antiques, is – potentially, though not necessarily – an expensive one; his wife isn’t some working class American girl, etc. The seeming populism of his decision to [...]

I woke up with this very lucid thought today: Yushchenko never seemed to pretend he and his family didn’t have enough money.
He’s a former banker; his hobby, collecting antiques, is – potentially, though not necessarily – an expensive one; his wife isn’t some working class American girl, etc. The seeming populism of his decision to [...]

Yesterday, someone named Panas Periperdenko, of The Young Naturalist, Kirovohrad, was listed as #556 on the petition for a while – that name is as unlikely as, say, Archibald Overfartson, and it’s good someone at Ukrainska Pravda noticed and deleted it.
If they really want to be taken seriously, by Yushchenko or anyone else, they should [...]




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    • Candles lit in front of Ukr Embassy in Moscow. May look like holiday season decor to those who don't know, but if you do know, it's moving. 1 day ago
    • Lit a candle, placed it on the balcony, explained to Marta that it's for people who are "on the cloud" - to let them know we remember them. 1 day ago
    • The modem has somehow fixed itself. Hope it lasts. What a relief. 3 days ago
    • Wifi modem died @ 4:30AM. Maybe it's for the better - I do need a break. But no internet means my backlog will grow. Feeling desperate... 3 days ago
    • Happy Thanksgiving to all my U.S. friends! 3 days ago
    • Transcarpathian TV: 3 channels; monthly salary UAH 1,000-1,500 ($120-$180); equipment scarce; politics abounds (UKR) http://bit.ly/7pvI7K 4 days ago
    • Same piece on U.S. spin doctors in Ukr, but a bit off-topic: Taras Kuzio is the only guy who's quoted saying "the Ukraine" - twice. Wild. 5 days ago
    • "So why go to New Jersey and lose for 100 grand when you [can] go to Peru and lose for a million?” (James Carville, Clinton's ex-strategist) 5 days ago
    • <-- ...a little bit damaging to your reputation. But if you go to Peru and you run a presidential race and you lose, no one knows or cares." 5 days ago
    • Here's why they are here: “If you help elect a president & then you get involved in a governor’s race & you lose, it’s going to be ... --> 5 days ago
    • U.S. political consultants in Ukraine, assisting Yushch, Yanuk, Yulia and Yatsenyuk: http://bit.ly/2lvtGm 5 days ago
    • Yulia, our Janus: after her fun chat w/ Putin, her MPs draft a bill to recognize UPA fighters as WWII combatants http://bit.ly/7GXKG4 (RUS) 5 days ago
    • So, 5 years since Maidan, we have a Putin-friendly Tymoshenko & a Yanukovych who's sort of critical of Putin :) http://bit.ly/08rYzbN (RUS) 6 days ago
    • Bookmarks restored. Nearly all of them. Hated to be reminded of how much I depend on technology. 1 week ago
    • Firefox has deleted my bookmarks overnight. All of them, damn it. Feels like coming back home to find that all your furniture is gone. 1 week ago
    • RT @skovalyov: Вера Ульянченко вышла на сцену и вручает медальки. Оранжевая КПСС. Идолы новые - традиции старые. #UOR5 1 week ago
    • Our Brezhnev of a president misnames Medvedev, while Saakashvili tries hard not to giggle (UKR) http://bit.ly/6O1TnY 1 week ago
    • Putin trying to impress Tymoshenko with his cab driver sense of humor (RUS) http://bit.ly/53JbUe 1 week ago