Archive for October 1st, 2006

Whenever the noise about Russian vs Ukrainian languages becomes unbearable, I think about India and its official languages: Hindi, Sanskrit, English, Assamese, Bengali, Bodo, Dogri, Gujarati, Kannada, Kashmiri, Konkani, Malayalam, Maithili, Manipuri, Marathi, Nepali, Oriya, Punjabi, Santali, Sindhi, Tamil, Telugu and Urdu.
And now there’s a New York Times piece about the water situation in [...]

Whenever the noise about Russian vs Ukrainian languages becomes unbearable, I think about India and its official languages: Hindi, Sanskrit, English, Assamese, Bengali, Bodo, Dogri, Gujarati, Kannada, Kashmiri, Konkani, Malayalam, Maithili, Manipuri, Marathi, Nepali, Oriya, Punjabi, Santali, Sindhi, Tamil, Telugu and Urdu.
And now there’s a New York Times piece about the water situation in [...]

Whenever the noise about Russian vs Ukrainian languages becomes unbearable, I think about India and its official languages: Hindi, Sanskrit, English, Assamese, Bengali, Bodo, Dogri, Gujarati, Kannada, Kashmiri, Konkani, Malayalam, Maithili, Manipuri, Marathi, Nepali, Oriya, Punjabi, Santali, Sindhi, Tamil, Telugu and Urdu.
And now there’s a New York Times piece about the water situation in [...]

Two years ago, Mishah’s grandmother died. I loved her a lot and I still can’t believe she’s gone.
And Marta is 10 months old today.
Sometimes I feel that Mishah’s grandmother somehow knows all about Marta. And sometimes it’s really breaking my heart to think that she hasn’t had the time to meet Marta.
Rest in peace, prababushka.

Two years ago, Mishah’s grandmother died. I loved her a lot and I still can’t believe she’s gone.
And Marta is 10 months old today.
Sometimes I feel that Mishah’s grandmother somehow knows all about Marta. And sometimes it’s really breaking my heart to think that she hasn’t had the time to meet Marta.
Rest in peace, prababushka.




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    • Yegor Gaidar, RIP 22 hours ago
    • -24C/-11F in Moscow (not much better in Kyiv: -18C/0F) 23 hours ago
    • Crazy, but the next blog post that opened in my GoogleReader feed - after the exhumed bodies - was about truffle hunting in the same region. 1 day ago
    • [Oh... What a gloomy 1,000th tweet I've just posted...] 1 day ago
    • People who went to church every Sunday of their lives, but needed Mel Gibson to *show* them that it hurt like hell to be on that cross... 1 day ago
    • So I've been skipping posts w/ such photos for quite a while. But perhaps some people do need heavy-handed reminders, random yet persistent. 1 day ago
    • Because once you've seen these images and read testimonies/reports, it's impossible to ever forget. 1 day ago
    • A false assumption that concerned readers who visit this blog need such graphic reminders of the atrocity so often. 1 day ago
    • To remind readers of a relatively recent atrocity, one blogger repeatedly posts horrifying photos of human remains exhumed from mass graves. 1 day ago
    • RT @roxolanus explore Kyiv virtually http://ow.ly/MjiI - only downtown so far, but still you can turn the camera 360 degrees 1 day ago
    • RT @politiko Візи і Україна http://url4.eu/vyqz - Visas & Ukraine: green - no entry visas needed, yellow - visa on arrival... 1 day ago
    • -23C/-9F 1 day ago
    • -16C/+3F 2 days ago
    • Time of the year when dressing Marta for a walk is so exhausting: when both of us are ready, I wish she could go on that walk by herself. 4 days ago
    • While I'm at it, here's another GV translation of another Rus photographer's post - Oleg Klimov's - on extreme poverty http://bit.ly/7kL7m5 5 days ago
    • I often catch myself thinking that many people who complain abt low salaries aren't qualified to get paid at all. Not always the case, sure. 5 days ago
    • This post has, of course, reminded me of the time we were searching for papa, how the cops didn't have paper to print the Missing posters on 5 days ago
    • My GV translation of Sergei Maximishin's post on bureaucracy & incompetence @ Ukr defense ministry http://bit.ly/4yU5Hq 5 days ago
    • Am translating this wonderful text http://bit.ly/4OWrCU (RUS) by my favorite photographer, Sergei Maximishin. Furious. 5 days ago