Archive for October, 2005

Pregnancy notes:
Didn’t fit into my high winter boots two days ago. Dresses and pants I understand, but footwear?
Getting up from the couch is an exercise in weightlifting.
Was planning to go for a walk today but got really exhausted while putting the boots on; got outside and realized that it was way too slippery; also, the [...]

Pregnancy notes:
Didn’t fit into my high winter boots two days ago. Dresses and pants I understand, but footwear?
Getting up from the couch is an exercise in weightlifting.
Was planning to go for a walk today but got really exhausted while putting the boots on; got outside and realized that it was way too slippery; also, the [...]

PRI’s The World is airing Andrew Sussman’s tribute to Oleg Lundstrem today – the text is here.
My photos from that March 2004 interview are here – and I’m even mentioned in the text!..
[...]
Muscovites are hard to impress. They’re big city blasé. But when I told friends I was going to see Oleg Lundstrem, the [...]

PRI’s The World is airing Andrew Sussman’s tribute to Oleg Lundstrem today – the text is here.
My photos from that March 2004 interview are here – and I’m even mentioned in the text!..
[...]
Muscovites are hard to impress. They’re big city blasé. But when I told friends I was going to see Oleg Lundstrem, the [...]

Below is my three-year-old text on the Nord-Ost theater siege.

TEN-TWENTY-THREE
In times of distress, I turn to Italian pop music of the 1980s: Riccardo Fogli and Pupo have the strongest therapeutic effect on me. Passionate yet soothing, and only God knows what they are singing about in this wonderful language of theirs. Must be love, [...]

Below is my three-year-old text on the Nord-Ost theater siege.

TEN-TWENTY-THREE
In times of distress, I turn to Italian pop music of the 1980s: Riccardo Fogli and Pupo have the strongest therapeutic effect on me. Passionate yet soothing, and only God knows what they are singing about in this wonderful language of theirs. Must be love, [...]

Today’s photos from the Dubrovka theater are here.
(I didn’t make it to the memorial service; I walked there after seeing my doctor – the clinic isn’t too far away.)
Today’s BBC story is here.

Today’s photos from the Dubrovka theater are here.
(I didn’t make it to the memorial service; I walked there after seeing my doctor – the clinic isn’t too far away.)
Today’s BBC story is here.

First snow in Moscow, today…

First snow in Moscow, today…




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    • 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. 21 hours 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) 21 hours 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." 22 hours 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 ... --> 22 hours ago
    • U.S. political consultants in Ukraine, assisting Yushch, Yanuk, Yulia and Yatsenyuk: http://bit.ly/2lvtGm 22 hours 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) 22 hours 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) 1 day ago
    • Bookmarks restored. Nearly all of them. Hated to be reminded of how much I depend on technology. 2 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. 2 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 4 days ago
    • Putin trying to impress Tymoshenko with his cab driver sense of humor (RUS) http://bit.ly/53JbUe 4 days ago
    • Global Voices Online - Russia: Blogging the Winter in Yakutia http://bit.ly/3SXULU 5 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
    • I've nothing to say but still feel like talking, so here's a pic of a cardboard box that used to have apples in it: http://twitpic.com/pmx5i 1 week ago