Category: Russia

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3rd Blood Donation

Before the trip to Kyev I passed all doctors and tests and was ready for the third blood donation, however, I absolutely forgot that Nov 5th is not a working day and the Sklif blood transfusion department is closed. Meanwhile, I found another three centers that work on Saturday, In two of them, were no […]

VTB is stealing money

I have the spreadsheet to track changes in my broker accounts. So, once a month I use to move data from broker reports to this spreadsheet. Most time it’s just a boring and routine job. However, sometimes it could reveal interesting facts.

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.

Bailiffs

Federal Bailiffs Service is a fail of entire Russian government. I’ve never experience such a bad management and I hope I will never deal with them in future. Why am I angry? – Everything began a year ago…

Prisons

Anderes Breivik in Norvey killed 69 people and have assess to DVD games, got in prison his second degree and lives in a three-cells camera. And he still complaining that he has got tepid coffee, and chained from time to time in handcuffs.

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.

COVID-19 trial update

I wrote back in December about my paticipation in COVID-19 vaccine trial. Since then I am in weekly contact with my doctor, and nothing serious happens except first days temperature. Meanwhile, I have a lot things to do in public places which have been postponed since last March. So, I decided to take a test […]

Two stories

There are two stories spreading in Russia right now. One of them is about Russian president who came into power back in 1990s and since then earned a lot of money for himself and his close friends. Briefly this story was told by the most prominent Putin’s critic Alaxey Navalny.

Vaccine Trial

Last Friday I saw an advertisement in browser that the third phase anti-COVID vaccine is staring soon and they are looking for volunteers. I followed a link and found out that it’s a Chinese vaccine of CanSino Biologics company.

COVID-19 in Russia

When I see statistics of COVID-19 spreading in Russia it’s really hard to say what’s going on. So, I decided to look at things differently and show infected people rate instead of absolute number.