Air Baltic – the worst

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.

Babi Yar

Babi Yar

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.

Move to Kyiv

Move to Kyiv

Some time ago I was asked how I feel about a business trip to Kyiv for a couple of months. I had nothing against it and started long negotiations. In the end, we agreed that I will spend in Ukraine entire 2022 year. My family supported this move and we started hard preparations for this […]

3rd Blood Donation

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 […]

Hand-made cheese

Hand-made cheese

I thought that making cheese is something very time and efforts consuming. However, my wife presented me with a special kit with detailed instructions. It turned out that to make a fresh cheese you need about 5 minutes of active action, some milk, and a lemon.

VTB is stealing money

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

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

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

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…

Bicycle

Bicycle

I haven’t ridden a bicycle since I was a kid. And I’m not sure, but probably it was three-wheels one. I’ve never needed to ride it. In Taganrog, I had a train station one minute from my home. In Moscow subway is a very nice way to move around.