May 4, 2008 in 2008: istanbul, neeka: blog notes, neeka: photos, world: turkey

I’ve just added pictures that I took around Istanbul’s Taksim Square in the evening of May 1 – here. I, of course, wanted to post them right away, and write about how surreal it all seemed even after it was long over (I missed the bedlam that took place in the afternoon – read this [...]

April 1, 2008 in neeka: blog notes

Not sure if anyone’s noticed, but I’ve discovered Twitter and now post rather meaningless one-liners – and re-broadcast them from Twitter to the sidebar of this blog. All those tiny observations that I wouldn’t have bothered blogging about here. Totally love it.

April 1, 2008 in neeka: blog notes

Not sure if anyone’s noticed, but I’ve discovered Twitter and now post rather meaningless one-liners – and re-broadcast them from Twitter to the sidebar of this blog. All those tiny observations that I wouldn’t have bothered blogging about here. Totally love it.

March 26, 2008 in :))), neeka: blog notes, rus: culture, rus: kavkaz, rus: st. pete, video: misc

(Another test post – it’s not working too smoothly, but I’ll get used eventually, I hope.) Russian answer to the “Americans are NOT stupid” video tags: kinda funny, rus, video dmitrivrubel: Ramzan Kadyrov’s motorcade tags: Chechnya, Kadyrov, kinda funny, rus, video

March 26, 2008 in humor, links, neeka: blog notes, rus: culture, rus: kavkaz, rus: st. pete, video: misc

(Another test post – it’s not working too smoothly, but I’ll get used eventually, I hope.) Russian answer to the “Americans are NOT stupid” video tags: kinda funny, rus, video dmitrivrubel: Ramzan Kadyrov’s motorcade tags: Chechnya, Kadyrov, kinda funny, rus, video

March 26, 2008 in humor, links, neeka: blog notes, world: kavkaz, world: turkey

(A test post – I’m trying to switch from Facebook’s Posted Items to something more public and am testing Diigo now.) Марк Григорян – Стамбульский аэропорт tags: Armenia, Istanbul, Russia, rus A comment (RUS) by an Armenian on Russians at Istanbul airport…

March 26, 2008 in :))), neeka: blog notes, world: kavkaz, world: turkey

(A test post – I’m trying to switch from Facebook’s Posted Items to something more public and am testing Diigo now.) Марк Григорян – Стамбульский аэропорт tags: Armenia, Istanbul, Russia, rus A comment (RUS) by an Armenian on Russians at Istanbul airport…

February 29, 2008 in global voices, marta, neeka: blog notes, neeka: family, neeka: life

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 [...]

February 29, 2008 in global voices, marta, neeka: blog notes, neeka: family, neeka: life

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 [...]

December 8, 2007 in neeka: blog notes, neeka: photos, rus: election '03, rus: election '07, rus: politics, rus: putin, rus: yukos, ukr: election '07

Here are a few more flashbacks from 2003… This United Russia ad across Nevskiy Prospekt from Moskovskiy Vokzal in St. Pete seemed way huge then – but compared to this campaign ad by Yuri Lutsenko at Livoberezhna this year, it looks pretty modest now… “The President’s Party” – not much has changed since then, they’ve [...]