May 20, 2008 in migration, neeka: photos, rus: moscow

A few more shots from our Sunday walk at Vorobyovy Gory. Migrant workers (most likely) playing football on one of MGU’s football fields (if you can call it that): (An earlier post and a picture from a similar gastarbeiter game is here.) *** At Luzhniki, something very Soviet was taking place – judging by this [...]

May 20, 2008 in neeka: photos, rus: moscow, rus: politics

Here’s what the MGU war memorial looked like on Sunday, just nine days after Victory Day: And here are some swastikas down by the river: Welcome to Potemkin Village.

May 18, 2008 in neeka: photos, rus: culture, rus: moscow

The Night of Museums/International Museum Day is today – but downtown Moscow already looked pretty artistic on Friday:

May 13, 2008 in :))), blogosphere, neeka: life, neeka: photos, rus: medvedev, rus: moscow, rus: politics, rus: putin, soviet history

No photos from this year’s Victory Day, as we were returning from Istanbul on May 9. Instead, here’s the stuff that our building’s concierges posted on the walls by the entrance and inside the two elevators (as they say here, one elevator’s for the wife, the other’s for the mistress, to keep them from running [...]

March 17, 2008 in 2008: istanbul, marta: pics, neeka: childhood, neeka: family, neeka: life, neeka: photos, rus: moscow, world: turkey

We are back to Moscow. Nothing has changed here. This strange new season that can’t decide whether it’s winter or spring is still here. Judging by the weather forecast and the thick shield of clouds that we’ve seen from the plane, it’s not going anywhere. It’s raining, and it’s snowing. In Istanbul, on the other [...]

March 17, 2008 in 2008: istanbul, marta: pics, neeka: childhood, neeka: family, neeka: life, neeka: photos, rus: moscow

We are back to Moscow. Nothing has changed here. This strange new season that can’t decide whether it’s winter or spring is still here. Judging by the weather forecast and the thick shield of clouds that we’ve seen from the plane, it’s not going anywhere. It’s raining, and it’s snowing. In Istanbul, on the other [...]

January 21, 2008 in neeka: family, neeka: life, neeka: photos, rus: moscow

I’m not in Kyiv and I couldn’t visit my father’s grave when it was six months since his death. Instead, I took myself to Vagankovskoe Cemetery here today, to lay flowers to the graves of Vladimir Vysotsky and Rufina Nifontova (link in Russian), two people who, in different ways, have always meant a lot to [...]

January 21, 2008 in neeka: family, neeka: life, neeka: photos, rus: moscow

I’m not in Kyiv and I couldn’t visit my father’s grave when it was six months since his death. Instead, I took myself to Vagankovskoe Cemetery here today, to lay flowers to the graves of Vladimir Vysotsky and Rufina Nifontova (link in Russian), two people who, in different ways, have always meant a lot to [...]

January 17, 2008 in neeka: photos, rus: moscow

And here’s some Moscow on Jan. 15, one of those extremely rare sunny days:

January 17, 2008 in neeka: photos, rus: moscow

And here’s some Moscow on Jan. 15, one of those extremely rare sunny days: