Land to the Peasants!

Land to the Peasants!

Navalny has just launched his another campain against Vladimir Putin. In his “5 steps” program he is demanding to pay each adult in Russia for 20 000 roubles (about 270 USD), to nullify utilities bill for all households and to spend about two trillions of roubles for small busyness support.

Statistics fan

Statistics fan

I’m listening Financial markets course on Coursera platform and decided to make some math for russian market. However, results looks rather strange. At first I tried to figure out what data to use for risk and profit calculation. Averaging by month eliminates peaks, and make grath much smoother.

Deutsch

Deutsch

There’ve been a one year this week since I started learning german language. We planned to visit Germany in Sept 2019 and I decided to learn couple phrases. I tried couple apps until installed Duolingo.

Chickens vs Viruses

Chickens vs Viruses

I was listening another episode of Planet Money podcast recently and was surprised that most vaccines are made using chicken eggs. There are several secret labs across the US that grow chickens in a great number to be able to get thousands of eggs in case of any virus outbeak.

Free access to Litres

Free access to Litres

I am reading nonfiction only in English. This way have many advantages: you don’t need to wait for a Russian edition translation you are reading in author own language it is much more books in English The best place to get them is Amazon. Their wireless delivery to Kindle devices is marvelous. And in case […]

Infinitely Polar Bear

Infinitely Polar Bear

To put it simple: boring and mediocre movie. Luckily, it is short enough and you will not waste too much time.

Stranger Than Fiction

Stranger Than Fiction

During the vacation we saw a nice movie Stranger than Fiction by director Mark Forster. It’s about IRS clerk Harold Crick who start to hear a voice in his head. This voice describes very accurately his actions and feelings.

Lake Seliger

Lake Seliger

We planed to travel on vacation to Kainingrad city, however things change quickly with this coronavirus outbreak, so we decided to go to a countryside instead. So we found a house at the bank of Seliger Lake and went there on March 22.

Big Sales!

Big Sales!

Flat world is recovering it borders to slow down coronavirus spread and avia industry is greatly suffering from decline in travelling. For Boeing company that struggles to return its 737Max fleet back to the service this decline is a double blow. As a result market price for BA shares drops 70% to 100 dollars

Ford v Ferrary

Ford v Ferrary

During the weekend we saw Ford v Ferrary movie with Matt Damon. Although the movie is two and a half hours long, it keeps your attention all that time.