Archive for August, 2007
Apples are everywhere here; I make tons of apple juice a day, and we drink it all. Nothing else to report – and I kind of like it.
Global Voices OnlineThursday, August 30, 2007
On August 19, Ukrainian journalist Tanya Kremen paid a visit to an animal shelter located near Hostomel, a small town just outside Kyiv. Below are her impressions and thoughts (RUS), which she has posted on her blog at Korrespondent.net:
Yesterday, I was at the animal shelter near Hostomel. It wasn’t really [...]
Global Voices OnlineFriday, August 24, 2007
August 19 marked sixteen years since the beginning of the Soviet Union’s collapse. On this day, LJ user galerist (Marat Guelman, gallery owner from Moscow) happened to post a sketch (RUS) on his visit to a rich client’s estate – a sketch that, in a way, highlighted some of [...]
Z Dnem Nezalezhnosti! Happy Independence Day!
I’m glad we’re not on Besarabka today, though. Too many people there, too noisy, too dirty afterwards. Here, it’ll be wise to stay away from the beach for a week or so, before it gets cleaned up, but it’s so peaceful in our little garden, and I’m nowhere near as [...]
Z Dnem Nezalezhnosti! Happy Independence Day!
I’m glad we’re not on Besarabka today, though. Too many people there, too noisy, too dirty afterwards. Here, it’ll be wise to stay away from the beach for a week or so, before it gets cleaned up, but it’s so peaceful in our little garden, and I’m nowhere near as [...]
Global Voices OnlineThursday, August 23, 2007
The short entry below (RUS), by LJ user smitrich, has been one of the most popular ones in the Russian blogosphere this week:
A friend was on a Helsinki-Moscow train and got stuck in the railway traffic jam, caused by [the crash in Novgorod region].
The train was re-routed through [Pskov] region. [...]
I’m at the dacha. There’s too much nature here, and it’s freaking me out. I’ve just spent 15 minutes chasing a huge moth out of the kitchen. The size of my cell phone, almost. Apples are falling from the trees. Dogs are barking. Frogs are … what’s the English word? Kvakayut. Marta is asleep. The [...]
I’m at the dacha. There’s too much nature here, and it’s freaking me out. I’ve just spent 15 minutes chasing a huge moth out of the kitchen. The size of my cell phone, almost. Apples are falling from the trees. Dogs are barking. Frogs are … what’s the English word? Kvakayut. Marta is asleep. The [...]
Global Voices OnlineWednesday, August 22, 2007
Dmitry Shirinkin (a Perm-based LJ user tetraox) faces trial for having written on his blog that he had purchased a gun and was going to kill a few dozen people in one of the city’s colleges.
According to Shirinkin, the text – posted on April 21, but made private on [...]
Global Voices OnlineSaturday, August 18, 2007
One of the most discussed topics in the Russian blogosphere last week was a graphic video of what appeared to be the execution of two ethnically non-Russian men by masked figures claiming to be members of a Russian neo-Nazi group.
A detailed description of the video can be found in this [...]
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