Archive for September, 2005

Just finished reading Mikhail Brodsky’s interview (Part 1 and Part 2, in Russian).
Amazingly sickening, regardless of whether any of it is true or not.
At one point, Brodsky speaks of how intelligentsia, people with access to information, are Tymoshenko’s electorate.
Well, I sort of want to declare here that I am no one’s electorate – neither Yushchenko’s, [...]

Just finished reading Mikhail Brodsky’s interview (Part 1 and Part 2, in Russian).
Amazingly sickening, regardless of whether any of it is true or not.
At one point, Brodsky speaks of how intelligentsia, people with access to information, are Tymoshenko’s electorate.
Well, I sort of want to declare here that I am no one’s electorate – neither Yushchenko’s, [...]

…WE LIVED ON A DIFFERENT PLANET THEN
Platon met Maria in Crimea, at the Yalta Hotel, where a conference on optimization methods was taking place. Along with the conference participants, also staying at the hotel were either Moscow or Leningrad music hall dancers, two cycling teams, and a small number of individuals who were there without [...]

…WE LIVED ON A DIFFERENT PLANET THEN
Platon met Maria in Crimea, at the Yalta Hotel, where a conference on optimization methods was taking place. Along with the conference participants, also staying at the hotel were either Moscow or Leningrad music hall dancers, two cycling teams, and a small number of individuals who were there without [...]

…WE LIVED ON A DIFFERENT PLANET THEN
Platon met Maria in Crimea, at the Yalta Hotel, where a conference on optimization methods was taking place. Along with the conference participants, also staying at the hotel were either Moscow or Leningrad music hall dancers, two cycling teams, and a small number of individuals who were there without [...]

Sunsets are slowly moving back to where they were in winter, when we just moved into this apartment. It’s getting more and more beautiful, colder and colder. The watermelon season is over.

Sunsets are slowly moving back to where they were in winter, when we just moved into this apartment. It’s getting more and more beautiful, colder and colder. The watermelon season is over.

Oh. Turns out Yulia Tymoshenko was in Moscow this past weekend. Oh.
According to Gazeta.ru (in Russian), she showed up at the Prosecutor General’s office on Saturday and answered their questions. As a result, she no longer faces arrest and imprisonment in Russia, according to today’s statement by the Prosecutor General’s office.
Tymoshenko’s consultant Dmitry [...]

Oh. Turns out Yulia Tymoshenko was in Moscow this past weekend. Oh.
According to Gazeta.ru (in Russian), she showed up at the Prosecutor General’s office on Saturday and answered their questions. As a result, she no longer faces arrest and imprisonment in Russia, according to today’s statement by the Prosecutor General’s office.
Tymoshenko’s consultant Dmitry [...]

What are they thinking of?
Mykola Martynenko, head of Yushchenko’s Our Ukraine parliamentary faction said this (in Ukrainian) on Poroshenko’s Channel 5 yesterday:
People didn’t stand at Maidan for Tymoshenko, they did not come there for her. There was one Maidan, which stood against violations by the ruling elite, and in order to express people’s will [...]




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    • Transcarpathian TV: 3 channels; monthly salary UAH 1,000-1,500 ($120-$180); equipment scarce; politics abounds (UKR) http://bit.ly/7pvI7K 8 hours 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. 1 day 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) 1 day 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." 1 day 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 ... --> 1 day ago
    • U.S. political consultants in Ukraine, assisting Yushch, Yanuk, Yulia and Yatsenyuk: http://bit.ly/2lvtGm 1 day 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) 1 day 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) 2 days ago
    • Bookmarks restored. Nearly all of them. Hated to be reminded of how much I depend on technology. 3 days 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. 3 days ago
    • RT @skovalyov: Вера Ульянченко вышла на сцену и вручает медальки. Оранжевая КПСС. Идолы новые - традиции старые. #UOR5 3 days ago
    • Our Brezhnev of a president misnames Medvedev, while Saakashvili tries hard not to giggle (UKR) http://bit.ly/6O1TnY 5 days ago
    • Putin trying to impress Tymoshenko with his cab driver sense of humor (RUS) http://bit.ly/53JbUe 5 days ago
    • Global Voices Online - Russia: Blogging the Winter in Yakutia http://bit.ly/3SXULU 6 days ago
    • Not sure why, but I always compare Ukr/Rus $bn figures (e.g. Ukr's $28bn in reserves) to Khodorkovsky's pre-arrest $15bn personal fortune... 1 week ago
    • "Ukraine still has $28bn in foreign currency reserves" - FT, http://bit.ly/3aLryc (via ForeignNotes, http://bit.ly/gNXFe ) 1 week ago
    • I just don't get it: schools & theaters closed in Kyiv because of flu, but Junior Eurovision does take place, w/ Yulia as one of the guests 1 week ago
    • A social ad @ a bus stop in Moscow: "You smoke coz you're already 14, but it's still not making you look cooler" http://twitpic.com/pmxyb 1 week ago