russia: Reaching Greatness in Failure - 11/21/09 03:16 PM
Remember Mikhail Gorbachev? A popular political figure often viewed very favorably in the United States? Many of us, Russians, after the initial euphoria of Perestroika and Glasnost (the latter, by the way, is like Transparency), hated him with all our guts. He betrayed our generation. He promised democracy and Change, but all … (13 comments)
russia: Getting Closer...Ouch - 11/19/09 07:42 PM
Greta Van Susteren from FOX went to Pakistan to interview Hillary Clinton. In her first appearance on Fox after she got there was a dose of surprise. She said that even though they got to Pakistan in the middle of the night and did not really speak to many people, her … (17 comments)
russia: Twelve Commandments - 11/13/09 02:35 AM
There was Utopia, there were dreams of making the world better way before and way after. A human race is an impatient one. We are glad at first snow, but then we get tired of it and want the Spring to come... And we are impatient in everything else.
Though we … (7 comments)
russia: 28 Blue Jeans... For A Lesson - 10/21/09 12:12 AM
We are getting very close to Closing of this Ormond Beach 2,000sf+ home. After losing a buyer, after going back and forth with contracts, after all that we are soon to close on it (keeping my fingers crossed).
This is a relatively rare case where we are the listing agents. Not … (33 comments)
russia: A Tale Of The Past. My English Teacher - 10/13/09 09:13 AM
Associations have their own peculiar way. A smell, a sudden resemblance, a voice, a passage in the book bring memories of long forgotten things or events, and now they are on the foreground, pronounced and clear like decades ago...
I just posted a difficult post. God, Where Were You in The Time … (16 comments)
russia: Another Tale From The Past - 09/13/09 12:54 PM
I have lived in the Unites States for 18 years already, and it is 4 years longer than 14 years in the Russian Arctic. We've been in Florida for practically 14 years already.
I was born in Tajikistan, where my mom, a military doctor at that time, was working in a Hospital. The … (26 comments)
russia: The World Was Betrayed 70 years Ago - 08/28/09 02:25 AM
It all started with the signing of Economic treaty on August 19, which opened the way for Germany to Russian raw materials, that Hitler needed for his expansion plans, and without which all his plans were not really realistic.
And then on August 23, 1939, Molotov, as foreign minister for USSR (with … (26 comments)
russia: A Tale From The Past - 08/24/09 10:18 PM
I have a friend in New York. Her name is Bella. She is in her 70s, and she with her late husband were somewhere between friends and parents to us. We met each other at the time when we were so new to this great country, that it was scary. We … (12 comments)
russia: A Train To Childhood - 08/02/09 09:14 PM
When I first ran into Jason Crouch's announcement, I did not have any intention to try it. Well, if I did not do it then doing it now, after some absolutely awesome blogs have been posted, is more like a suicide.
Possibly. But our memories are unique, and our time and personal … (50 comments)
russia: 18 Years Ago Today... - 07/31/09 11:47 PM
18 years ago today a PanAm Boeing 747 made it to JFK from Moscow. Among other anxious passengers on board, it carried our family of 4. Me, my wife, my son, who turned 19 while on the plane, and my daughter, a few months shy of her 18.
We came not to conquer … (37 comments)
russia: Delight & Tears (Experiment With Predictable Results) - 07/22/09 02:12 AM
The debate about the plans of the government to take over the Healthcare system in America will hardly leave anyone impartial. But if many are trying to see the future, I am looking into the past.
The following is the quote from the review that I ran into on Google. Please, note … (14 comments)
russia: Sex With a Porcupine Or How We Are Different - 07/05/09 02:38 PM
Yesterday I posted Screwing a Porcupine Is Against The Law. Avoid The Temptation. I did not do it to shock the public, as I wasn't really shocked myself. I was laughing reading that article. I knew that it could have happened. And then I read the comments...
Oh my....
I knew that there is … (27 comments)
russia: Wish Us All Well, Will You? - 01/21/09 02:09 AM
The Historywas made today with Barak Obama becoming the President. There is some irony in the fact that this became the highest point in his political career. I am not sure anyone ever took the oath with their highest accomplishment - just getting to the White House.
We all wish him the best. I … (15 comments)
russia: The Man Who Shot Down McCain - 01/20/09 01:53 AM
The man, who shot down McCain's plane over North Vietnam in October 1967 died from cancer January 17, 2009 in a dilapidated home in Krasnoye Syelo not far from St. Petersburg, Russia.
This man, the former Soviet lieutenant colonel Yuri Trushechkin, had to keep quiet about it, as Soviet Union repeatedly … (6 comments)
russia: Welcome To The World - 12/31/08 02:29 PM
Sometimes memories take me back to Russia, and I write about it. I always feel the difficulty to adequately present the facts, so that it does not become a one-dimensional caricature, and though I am struggling to avoid it, I am always dangerously close. I know that people with similar experiences … (37 comments)
russia: Beheading in Russia - 12/14/08 12:31 PM
Saturday, December 6. In Moscow suburbs a gastarbaiter (German for an immigrant worker) from Tajikistan Saleh Azizov was beheaded by the group calling themselves "Russian Nationalist Militia" (loose translation)
The group sent out an e-mail bragging about the execution. A plastic bag with the head was discovered on he capital, same … (17 comments)
russia: "Shining a Light Into Dark Places" - 11/21/08 01:43 AM
Ted Baker left a thoughtful comment on my post Things I Would Rather Not Know. But I Do
I did not want to stir the pot again. I long for something funny and entertaining, and here I am, stuck with dark memories, trying to make sense of senseless things. Without understanding how they, prisoners … (12 comments)
russia: Things I Would Rather Not Know. But I Do - 11/18/08 01:12 AM
Skip this post if you want an uplifting light reading. This one is not. It is about terrible events.
I did not plan writing this post, but it comes to me every day...
My mom died in 1988. Several days after the funeral my older brother, who lived with my mom, asked me whether … (24 comments)
russia: Stories of the Past. Hopefully - 11/04/08 11:33 PM
After getting married (today, November 5 is our 38th anniversary), we lived in a room in 3 room apartment, sharing one bathroom and one kitchen. thhis was in middle Russia area. Three families in this apartment. That was sort of fun.
Anyway, the next door lady worked at the lab at … (25 comments)
russia: Ahead of the Whole World. Can Be Lonely - 11/03/08 11:50 PM
After graduating from the University my wife was sent to work as a school teacher to a capital of chemical industry in the North Urals, Berezniki. You most probably never heard about this place, so sufficient to say that the guy, who bought Marolago from Donald Trump, lives in this northern … (13 comments)
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Remember Mikhail Gorbachev? A popular political figure often viewed very favorably in the United States? Many of us, Russians, after the initial euphoria of Perestroika and Glasnost (the latter, by the way, is like Transparency), hated him with all our guts. He betrayed our generation. He promised democracy and Change, but all … (13 comments)
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