Archive for April, 2008
It’s really awesome to be around people who love kids and aren’t afraid to show it. In Istanbul, Marta receives dozens of smiles and hugs daily; she’s heard the Turkish phrase “çok güzel, maşaallah” (“very beautiful, mashaallah“) so many times, she knows how to say it herself by now; and today three people have given [...]
Mehmet Öztekin, a gramophone repairman and collector, in his shop at Grand Bazaar. He played an Edith Piaf song for us, very moving.
A little bit more about him is here.
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There’s another store at Grand Bazaar that I love – Deli Kızın Yeri/The Crazy Lady’s Place. I keep buying toys for Marta there.
Saw this barge at Ortaköy today:
“Знамя Октября” – “The Banner of October” – passing through the Bosporus under the Turkish flag (two of them, actually)…
Uploaded a bunch of Kyiv photos, the backlog.
From the Parking set:
From the Construction set:
From the Mayor 2008 set:
I’ve spent the past week in Moscow, with a nearly total kindergarten in and around my head:
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What little I’ve had of the adult stuff this week all had to do with my Global Voices reading, linking and translating.
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Oh, and I’ve also managed to read Olga Allenova’s text (RUS) on the current mess in Chechnya, in [...]
Global Voices OnlineWednesday, April 23, 2008
On April 22, Vladimir Lenin would have turned 138 – and quite a few Russophone bloggers still remember the date.
Oleg Panfilov – LJ user oleg_panfilov, director of the Center for Journalism in Extreme Situations – chose to write (RUS) about his native city – Khujand, Tajikistan – which was known [...]
Global Voices OnlineMonday, April 21, 2008
On April 13, Oleg Panfilov – LJ user oleg_panfilov, director of the Center for Journalism in Extreme Situations – reposted an item (RUS) from a Central Asian news agency Ferghana.ru on the dismantling of the International Friendship Monument in downtown Tashkent. The news got many people upset: there are 162 [...]
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