Archive for February, 2008
I wish I had the strength to announce that this blog is kaput, but I can’t.
Global Voices takes up too much of my time, and then there’s Facebook, and Odnoklassniki.ru – where I somehow have 85 friends already, and most of them are probably mad at me by now, because I tend to vanish right [...]
I wish I had the strength to announce that this blog is kaput, but I can’t.
Global Voices takes up too much of my time, and then there’s Facebook, and Odnoklassniki.ru – where I somehow have 85 friends already, and most of them are probably mad at me by now, because I tend to vanish right [...]
Watching Dora the Explorer with Marta is such a torture: it’s in Russian here, with some English, and here’s how it sounds sometimes:
“Skazhite ‘more faster’!”
And Dora is called Dasha here.
P.S. And Diego is singing: “You need swim, you need swim!” – which, I guess, means that he wants the turtle to swim…
Is the English-Spanish [...]
Watching Dora the Explorer with Marta is such a torture: it’s in Russian here, with some English, and here’s how it sounds sometimes:
“Skazhite ‘more faster’!”
And Dora is called Dasha here.
P.S. And Diego is singing: “You need swim, you need swim!” – which, I guess, means that he wants the turtle to swim…
Is the English-Spanish [...]
Global Voices OnlineMonday, February 25, 2008
Below is a selection of the English-language posts about last week’s events in Serbia and Kosovo, which appeared on Feb. 21-23. For additional coverage, please visit Global Voices’ Serbia page.
Viktor Marković of Belgrade 2.0 summed up what happened in Belgrade on Thursday, Feb. 21, following the Kosovo is Serbia! rally:
Belgrade [...]
This Ukrainian lullaby, performed by Nina Matvienko, moves me to tears:
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwEtAwXgeaQ&rel=1">
My other favorite is this Yiddish lullaby:
The whole project – www.lull.ru – is totally wondrous and amazing.
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And here are three audio clips of Mykola Fokin, a Ukrainian singer, who was also my maternal grandmother’s cousin:
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Де ти бродиш, моя доле?Муз. Марка Кропивницького, обробка для [...]
This Ukrainian lullaby, performed by Nina Matvienko, moves me to tears:
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwEtAwXgeaQ&rel=1">
My other favorite is this Yiddish lullaby:
The whole project – www.lull.ru – is totally wondrous and amazing.
***
And here are three audio clips of Mykola Fokin, a Ukrainian singer, who was also my maternal grandmother’s cousin:
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Де ти бродиш, моя доле?Муз. Марка Кропивницького, обробка для [...]
This Ukrainian lullaby, performed by Nina Matvienko, moves me to tears:
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwEtAwXgeaQ&rel=1">
My other favorite is this Yiddish lullaby:
The whole project – www.lull.ru – is totally wondrous and amazing.
***
And here are three audio clips of Mykola Fokin, a Ukrainian singer, who was also my maternal grandmother’s cousin:
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Де ти бродиш, моя доле?Муз. Марка Кропивницького, обробка для [...]
This Ukrainian lullaby, performed by Nina Matvienko, moves me to tears:
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwEtAwXgeaQ&rel=1">
My other favorite is this Yiddish lullaby:
The whole project – www.lull.ru – is totally wondrous and amazing.
***
And here are three audio clips of Mykola Fokin, a Ukrainian singer, who was also my maternal grandmother’s cousin:
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Де ти бродиш, моя доле?Муз. Марка Кропивницького, обробка для [...]
I’ve just finished a GV translation of the Russophone reactions to Kosovo – here.
An earlier roundup of the English-language reactions (along with 20 or so comments) – here.
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AP’s Mike Eckel has done a piece on the Russian blogosphere (a somewhat truncated copy – here), and below is my very sketchy supplement to it (all links [...]
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