On Feb 24 we woke up at 5.45 because of a sudden loud noise. We had a construction work nearby and at first I thought something went wrong there. But it turned out that my country decided to attack Ukraine with no reason for it.
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NY in Kyiv
It was rather nice in Kyiv during the holidays. On New Year Eve we visited the main Christmas tree of the city on Sofiyskaya Square. Square was decorated in European style with music, fancy lights and was full of happy people. There were also food shops with sausages, mulled wine and sweets for kids.
Air Baltic – the worst
Well, nowadays a trip from Moscow to Kyiv is rather challenging itself, but AirBaltic managed to turned it to a horrible journey. Let me just say that trip with four year old kid and infant took us 40 hours and you could imagine yourself how bad was experience.
Parliament election
My first experience as an observer happened ten years ago in 2011. It was really bracing experience that changed my attitude towards government and mass media.Since then many things changed, I have much less time to spare now and election was stretched for three days making it more challenging to observe.
Marrow spread
It was a period in my life when I ate marrow spread a lot. My father worked in sales for a company that produced variety of canned goods. So, sometimes instead of money he got a lot of canned vegies. Marrow spread was the best among them. I could eat entire jar in one attempt.
Alpha Defeat
Another long story finished recently. Crooks form Alpha-insurance were trying to get extra money. But choose a wrong target. It all begins in 2018…
Blood donation
For a long time, I was thinking that people already found a way to make artificial leather, diamonds, and blood. It turns out that with blood I was wrong. In my previous job, I’ve met with couple guys who were regular donors and they told me about the constant demand for all types of blood. […]
Back to office
I’d been working from home since last March and almost etrirely forgot about office. However life is going forward and I decided to return to Moscow Boeing Design Center. That is why my remote working was over on Monday.
Subsonic goes wrong
Not long ago I was bolstering that I have my own music server and don’t need to pay monthly to listen music I’ve already purchased. You could imagine my surprise when I saw the message in android app that my trial period of Subsonic license expired and I need to pay 1$ a month to […]
Censorship and VPN
In Russia goverment is trying to control everything: from oil production and pasta price to information. During the first Putin’s term he destroyed independent TV. It was explained as a fight against oligrachs, that controled media. As a result state controls all TV channels now and there is no place for Kremlin critics there.