Archive for December, 2005

Happy New Year, everyone! Z Novym Rokom! S Novym Godom!!!
Still an hour to go here; Khreshchatyk and Maidan are so loud; we can hear VV (Vopli Vidoplyasova) playing at Maidan even if we keep our windows shut; suprisingly, Marta does not wake from the constant booming of fireworks and fire crackers, some distant and [...]

Ouch. I couldn’t pass this headline in the New York Times – 2-Year-Old Boy Is Found Drunk After Mother Goes Into Labor – but parts of the story almost made me cry…
When Orbalina Miranda went into labor with her third child at 4:30 a.m. on Tuesday, she left her two children asleep in their beds, [...]

Ouch. I couldn’t pass this headline in the New York Times – 2-Year-Old Boy Is Found Drunk After Mother Goes Into Labor – but parts of the story almost made me cry…
When Orbalina Miranda went into labor with her third child at 4:30 a.m. on Tuesday, she left her two children asleep in their beds, [...]

Ouch. I couldn’t pass this headline in the New York Times – 2-Year-Old Boy Is Found Drunk After Mother Goes Into Labor – but parts of the story almost made me cry…
When Orbalina Miranda went into labor with her third child at 4:30 a.m. on Tuesday, she left her two children asleep in their beds, [...]

We need to get some paperwork done (related to Marta’s birth), so Mishah went to his district’s tax administration today (the weather’s ugly, relatively warm but way too wet, and the place is somewhat too far from where we live now). There, he was told he’d have to write a formal request and they’d issue [...]

We need to get some paperwork done (related to Marta’s birth), so Mishah went to his district’s tax administration today (the weather’s ugly, relatively warm but way too wet, and the place is somewhat too far from where we live now). There, he was told he’d have to write a formal request and they’d issue [...]

I got this message when I was still at the hospital, on Dec. 6:
hi veronica,
i’m writing a story for Marie Claire magazine in New York. I’m trying to find a respected salon in Kiev that can explain the most-popular haircut right now. Is there any way you could help me? I’d need you to go [...]

I got this message when I was still at the hospital, on Dec. 6:
hi veronica,
i’m writing a story for Marie Claire magazine in New York. I’m trying to find a respected salon in Kiev that can explain the most-popular haircut right now. Is there any way you could help me? I’d need you to go [...]

If not on a desert island, then I’d like to be in Istanbul now – like we were last year…

If not on a desert island, then I’d like to be in Istanbul now – like we were last year…




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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) 22 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