Archive for June, 2007
Global Voices OnlineFriday, June 29, 2007
In an ideal world, there’d be no need for travelers to waste their time and money obtaining visas: buying a plane ticket and booking a hotel room would suffice. Thanks to various international treaties and conventions, there’s a fair number of visa-free oases – though, unfortunately, many people all around [...]
3 am, I’ve just finished a huge translation on what a pain in the ass it is to obtain visas to some corners of “the West.”
Two stunningly long-legged, high-heeled women, dressed up in all white and tight, walk slowly along Khreshchatyk, the part of the sidewalk that turns into a jampacked parking lot during the [...]
3 am, I’ve just finished a huge translation on what a pain in the ass it is to obtain visas to some corners of “the West.”
Two stunningly long-legged, high-heeled women, dressed up in all white and tight, walk slowly along Khreshchatyk, the part of the sidewalk that turns into a jampacked parking lot during the [...]
Global Voices OnlineSunday, June 24, 2007
Moscow these days may struck one as a rather expensive city: according to the Cost of Living Survey recently conducted by Mercer Human Resource Consulting, it’s “the world’s most expensive city for expatriates for the second consecutive year.”
To Moscow locals, however, Mercer’s findings may look a bit like an exaggeration. [...]
Global Voices OnlineSunday, June 24, 2007
Moscow these days may struck one as a rather expensive city: according to the Cost of Living Survey recently conducted by Mercer Human Resource Consulting, it’s “the world’s most expensive city for expatriates for the second consecutive year.”
To Moscow locals, however, Mercer’s findings may look a bit like an exaggeration. [...]
Khreshchatyk is such a noisy place: tons of cars, quite a few of them street-racing, it seems, and now, at 2 a.m., there are two guys on a bench right beneath our window, and one is a drummer, exercising on what looks like an old Soviet drum, of the kind we used to have at [...]
Khreshchatyk is such a noisy place: tons of cars, quite a few of them street-racing, it seems, and now, at 2 a.m., there are two guys on a bench right beneath our window, and one is a drummer, exercising on what looks like an old Soviet drum, of the kind we used to have at [...]
Khreshchatyk is such a noisy place: tons of cars, quite a few of them street-racing, it seems, and now, at 2 a.m., there are two guys on a bench right beneath our window, and one is a drummer, exercising on what looks like an old Soviet drum, of the kind we used to have at [...]
Surprise, surprise – we’re in Kyiv!
I’m still too busy and tired to write, but here’s a picture taken in front of our building – I have to add it to my Kyiv Parking site on Flickr, but I don’t remember any of the login info for it, so it’ll have to wait:
Nothing’s changed here while [...]
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