Archive for October 19th, 2006
I asked my father today: he has worked as a tennis coach since 1958 – that is, he began earning money as a tennis coach that year, but worked for free before that, since around 1951.
Marta is crying a lot less when she sees him at home now – but she sobbed when he came [...]
Looking for stuff to translate for Global Voices is getting more and more difficult: too often, I start feeling dirty after just a few minutes of browsing through Russian LJs.
One guy is shutting down his journal because the Russian segment of LJ is now owned by the “kikes.” Another is asking on whose side [...]
Looking for stuff to translate for Global Voices is getting more and more difficult: too often, I start feeling dirty after just a few minutes of browsing through Russian LJs.
One guy is shutting down his journal because the Russian segment of LJ is now owned by the “kikes.” Another is asking on whose side [...]
Sorry for the silence: I’m re-adjusting to the city life.
Back home, I keep having flashbacks to when Marta was a newborn – pretty amazing… I can’t believe it ever happened.
I can’t believe we’ve ever lived in Pushcha Vodytsya, either…
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Today, I decided to walk up the stairs from Franka Sq. to the presidential administration, with Marta [...]
Sorry for the silence: I’m re-adjusting to the city life.
Back home, I keep having flashbacks to when Marta was a newborn – pretty amazing… I can’t believe it ever happened.
I can’t believe we’ve ever lived in Pushcha Vodytsya, either…
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Today, I decided to walk up the stairs from Franka Sq. to the presidential administration, with Marta [...]
Global Voices OnlineWednesday, October 18, 2006
“Every wall, every gate, every street has their signs of war in Grozny.”
Like hundreds of other members of the Virtual Grozny Russian-language forum, Natasha Raslambekova lived in Chechnya’s capital until the war forced her to flee in the spring of 1995. This past September, nearly 12 years after the First [...]


