It would be very strange to live in the Planeta hotel, right across the Victory park and not to visit the Museum of War. I’ve been several times in such places in different countries but amid the Russian invasion in Ukraine the entire exhibition become extremely actual and modern.
I arrived to Russia on Sep 9 to apply for a German visa and complete some urgent business. And once again I underestimated Russian government. I thought it is so unpopular that Putin with his idea of stability will never cross the line.
On February 24th Russia permanently changed. 100 days ago after brutal attack of Ukraine it’s not a developing country country in terms of economical development or authoritarian one in terms of political regime. It’s now an outcast country: toxic, unpopular and yes, dangerous. It’s in line now with North Korea, Iran, Belarus and other monstrous […]
When I was a student me and my friends went to a rock concert. One of them was heavily drunk and very soon found himself in the conflict with other guy who had his own friends. My friend was not right and I tried to persuade the other party that my friend is too drunk […]
This crisis seriously shaken my attitude towards financial system. Ideas that was reasonable and clear in popular books collapsed facing reality
After escaping Ukraine we lived in Moldova, partly in the capital Chisinau, partly in the lovely countryside, where I had chance to use wooden oven and walk a lot among the vineyards.
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.
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.
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.
I’m renting the apartment in Kyiv near Dorohozhychi metro station where the notorious place is located. Today I have some time to walk there in daylight. The place of the massacre during world war two is now a huge site with several monuments separated by Illienka street.
