Archive for May, 2006

It’s so weird to be reading C.J. Chivers’ piece on Beslan in Esquire (its first part is online, here) – a story written by a former Marine Corps captain, among other things – and then run into this New York Times’ review of John Updike’s new book, his 22nd, and learn, against my will, how [...]

It’s so weird to be reading C.J. Chivers’ piece on Beslan in Esquire (its first part is online, here) – a story written by a former Marine Corps captain, among other things – and then run into this New York Times’ review of John Updike’s new book, his 22nd, and learn, against my will, how [...]

It’s so weird to be reading C.J. Chivers’ piece on Beslan in Esquire (its first part is online, here) – a story written by a former Marine Corps captain, among other things – and then run into this New York Times’ review of John Updike’s new book, his 22nd, and learn, against my will, how [...]

Below is my translation for the Global Voices on this year’s failed gay pride parade in Moscow:

This past Saturday marked the 13th anniversary of the decriminalization of homosexuality in Russia, and a number of people attempted to take part in a gay pride parade in Moscow – despite the ban by a city court and [...]

Below is my translation for the Global Voices on this year’s failed gay pride parade in Moscow:

This past Saturday marked the 13th anniversary of the decriminalization of homosexuality in Russia, and a number of people attempted to take part in a gay pride parade in Moscow – despite the ban by a city court and [...]

School’s out today.
It’s been 15 years for me, mama dorogaya, and I don’t have a single memory worth sharing…

School’s out today.
It’s been 15 years for me, mama dorogaya, and I don’t have a single memory worth sharing…

And – yet another drunk sleeping at our playground on a Sunday morning. This one was scary – I didn’t find the guts to take a picture of his face. It was horrible. And then so many people sit on the bench he slept on. And sometimes there are kids of some unsuspecting parents playing [...]

And – yet another drunk sleeping at our playground on a Sunday morning. This one was scary – I didn’t find the guts to take a picture of his face. It was horrible. And then so many people sit on the bench he slept on. And sometimes there are kids of some unsuspecting parents playing [...]

I’ve posted 33 more photos into the Kyiv Day set over at Flickr (still can’t make myself feel fully at home there for some reason…):




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