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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 [...]
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 [...]
It’s been a week since Ilyas Shurpaev’s death. There are 720 messages on his Odnoklassniki.ru page now. And 241 on his last blog post. Rest in peace, Ilyas. That’s what most of them say, more or less.
Channel 1, for which he worked, is a shithole. After watching part of their Sunday newscast, a dear friend [...]
It’s been a week since Ilyas Shurpaev’s death. There are 720 messages on his Odnoklassniki.ru page now. And 241 on his last blog post. Rest in peace, Ilyas. That’s what most of them say, more or less.
Channel 1, for which he worked, is a shithole. After watching part of their Sunday newscast, a dear friend [...]
Well, at least Marta is happy: she’s got her new puppy somewhat sooner than she was supposed to.
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I’m well aware that we are not the first ones to get a kick in the ass, nor are we the last ones, unfortunately.
Most of the visa trouble stories I remember have to do with the U.S. embassy [...]
Well, at least Marta is happy: she’s got her new puppy somewhat sooner than she was supposed to.
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I’m well aware that we are not the first ones to get a kick in the ass, nor are we the last ones, unfortunately.
Most of the visa trouble stories I remember have to do with the U.S. embassy [...]
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 [...]
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