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A cab driver said today that the crazy Kyiv center construction ideas originated from the city’s new arrivals, for whom Kyiv is limited to Podil and Pechersk and who’d never consider setting their lavish offices elsewhere.
Considering the amount of property acquired by our folks in London, it is perhaps logical to expect Kyiv-style high-rise buildings [...]

For some reason, I keep thinking of what a Georgian cab driver told me about Abkhazia a week or so ago: he’d do anything to keep it as part of Georgia, even if it meant he’d have to elect Vladimir Zhirinovsky as Georgia’s president for a whole year!
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And now I also can’t stop thinking of [...]

For some reason, I keep thinking of what a Georgian cab driver told me about Abkhazia a week or so ago: he’d do anything to keep it as part of Georgia, even if it meant he’d have to elect Vladimir Zhirinovsky as Georgia’s president for a whole year!
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And now I also can’t stop thinking of [...]

For some reason, I keep thinking of what a Georgian cab driver told me about Abkhazia a week or so ago: he’d do anything to keep it as part of Georgia, even if it meant he’d have to elect Vladimir Zhirinovsky as Georgia’s president for a whole year!
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And now I also can’t stop thinking of [...]

I wish I could use this place more for random notes, but I can’t, and also, whenever I have something to write about, I’m too busy to, and then when there’s time, I’m too tired to or I’ve already forgotten what it was that I wanted to write about.
By random notes I mean stuff [...]

Three more cab/gypsy cab driver stories.
In the past week, I’ve started asking them directly whether they were planning to vote on Sunday.
The first one wasn’t very talkative, but has said enough: he thought it was okay for Yushchenko to be on Our Ukraine/People’s Self-Defense campaign ads; was impressed with how much more presentable Yanukovych has [...]