Archive for November, 2005

Still pregnant; c-section is, most likely, on Thursday, Dec. 1, in the morning.

Still pregnant; c-section is, most likely, on Thursday, Dec. 1, in the morning.

On Saturday, several TV channels showed Oleksandr Moroz, leader of the Socialist Party of Ukraine, speaking on the Famine (in Ukrainian, as he usually does) during his trip to Lviv.
I couldn’t bear listening to him, not on this subject – and especially after an introduction in which he declared his right to talk about [...]

On Saturday, several TV channels showed Oleksandr Moroz, leader of the Socialist Party of Ukraine, speaking on the Famine (in Ukrainian, as he usually does) during his trip to Lviv.
I couldn’t bear listening to him, not on this subject – and especially after an introduction in which he declared his right to talk about [...]

Today is the Holodomor Remembrance Day in Ukraine.

Today is the Holodomor Remembrance Day in Ukraine.

I keep having birth dreams now, sometimes more than one a night. The baby’s always different in them, but always perfect.
In one of today’s dreams, I could finally see that lower part of my body that’s been concealed by the belly for so many months (and still is, in real life). That was pretty [...]

I keep having birth dreams now, sometimes more than one a night. The baby’s always different in them, but always perfect.
In one of today’s dreams, I could finally see that lower part of my body that’s been concealed by the belly for so many months (and still is, in real life). That was pretty [...]

I haven’t been there yet, but, according to Gazeta po-Kiyevski (in Russian), they’ve opened Bankova for pedestrians – thanks to the Pora party activists, it seems.
On Monday, I stumbled on a news item that said Pora was planning to re-establish free access to Bankova by sawing off the shameful iron gates. The show was scheduled [...]

I haven’t been there yet, but, according to Gazeta po-Kiyevski (in Russian), they’ve opened Bankova for pedestrians – thanks to the Pora party activists, it seems.
On Monday, I stumbled on a news item that said Pora was planning to re-establish free access to Bankova by sawing off the shameful iron gates. The show was scheduled [...]




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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