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Cheated elections for the Russian Parliament and the Parlament of Saint Peterburg
Tuesday, January 10 2012, 21:36
Category: Photos, Tags: Petrogradskiy district Russia Saint Petersburg
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I acted as an official observer during the last election.

In order to shrink expenses, the most cities and regions of Russia had 2 simultaneous elections: the overall election for the Parliament and a local one for local parliament. So did we.

In common, it was the worst election ever happened in Russia: lots of lies, cheaters. Observers were turned out at many districts. I heard how Medvedev congratulated Putin on their glory right after the election had stopped, no conclusions could be made so early.

Then these strange, rude words of Kremlin about the absence of violations, this silence on TV and newspapers after overcrowded rallies. Putin with his boorishness, Medvedev disappeared after speaking unreal thoughts 'I am sure all these video tapes from witnesses were fabricated'. What a surprise, when did he manage to become so acute? After all these years of 'somehow intelligent' and 'somehow open-minded' person, he glanced with his real face.

Lots of rallies, nothing in result. I am afraid, we will face dark long times soon: Pitin will take the chair again, becoming the most longing (and repulsive) ruler of Russia.

- I have two news for you, mister Putin.
- Let's start with the better one.
- You've won the election.
- Right.... But what is the worse one?
- Nobody's voted for you.

There are photos took before, during and after the election.

Continue reading...

The Vegetarian
Tuesday, January 3 2012, 23:06
Category: Diary, Tags: food vegetarianism
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That's funny, I haven't been eating meat for almost 2 years.

But there are details:

  1. It is just an option, nothing about my religion. I easily can take a piece of beef if I meet my friends and they do not have any vegetarian stuff. I wouldn't bore them with my ideas.
  2. Moreover, I go to McDonalds sometimes to take their nasty unhealthy burger.
  3. Till an year ago, I eaten fish.
  4. Why do not I like meat? Because, it is unclear about if they have souls (and if people should avoid meat due to some hidden rules). And, finally, all these animals live awful lives, they consume unhealthy stuff with lots of medicaments. It is not good, surely.
Something from the September 2011
Sunday, November 6 2011, 23:46
, Tags: art ceramics Saint Petersburg
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Life is going further. I am living in my crisis of age (31) and has thought that filling my own blog there is redundant. Not that all my photos are useless, but it is strange: photos are here, the same (in Russian) is at umaxik.livejournal.com. Something is duplicated in vk.com. I wonder if somebody reads this stuff...

Ok, ok. Less pessimism.


New rooms of 'Manege' excibition center. I liked this calm, silent place with its exhibition well organised.

Some scenes of theatre. Witnesses were interested very much. :)

My own for clay at the new flat for rent. Ready-steady-go!
Excellent idea, it worked very well...
But died because of raw quality...


Present for my friends. Panic-rabbit. :)
Ladoga, Ladozhskoe lake.
Wednesday, October 5 2011, 01:30
Category: Photos, Tags: friends Nature Russia Saint Petersburg
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Sometimes, one time per year or less, I go to the special ride to countryside: to Ladoga, where my old friends have their place in the forest, upon the rocks.

There is something special about it: interesting people seen by me during almost 10 years, their changes, brilliant nature.

 Camp hookah. Very small, very effective, very handy. :)
There were such a lots of mushrooms, even me could find some good and clear ones. Others found lots during short walks.
Ladoga, summer, nowhere, for doing nothing.
My friends.
Friends' child. 2 years after I saw her for the last time.
More stories from Saint Petersburg, Russia
Sunday, September 25 2011, 21:34
Category: Photos, Tags: friends Russia Saint Petersburg
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Every time I ask to cut my hair a bit shorter, I have a look of criminal.
Let it be: I look like a criminal. :)
'Ratha yatra' Hindu festival in Saint Petersburg.




Garden in New Holland exhibition, Saint Petersburg.
Sonya.
Lampushka festival in forest.
Archstoyanie festival in Yaroslavskaya objalst.

Inna Zinina.




Bur!

No good hosting exists on this planet...
Monday, September 19 2011, 00:00
Category: Diary, Tags: web
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It was a month ago when I decided to leave my ancient and first hosting HostLand.ru that caused some questions to me. It has grown from a moderate level when there were rare hostings in Russia (and when I knew few about hostings at all) to some, maybe, worth thing. But I had decided to leave it with all these unpleasant Support. In short words, I leaved them for a better live.

Okay, I came right into the WORST hosting ever: JustHost.com.

Oh, dear! Guys, just never think about this name. They do not really work, they have everything crashing and their Support does not care about it. Just some "jokes" about them:

  • Webalizer told me that the most part of visitors come from country of Tuvalu. Have you ever known where is this country? I looked to map and to Wikipedia. 110 thousands of people at all. "Why does Webalizer claims that?", - I asked JustHost.com. "Apparently, they like your site". Thanks. BTW, other countries are "US commercial", "Network", "Non profit organisation" and other similar stuff.
  • Webalizer stops working allways. If you ask them to fix it, they "start it at new". OK, so you have a half of common statistics. Useless tool.
  • FTP is awful. If you try to upload something, you can not even be sure it is really uploaded. Just "maybe uploaded". You can loose your data.
  • Certainly, your site is inaccessible quite often. Sure, you really do not need your site, if you host at JustHost.com, so there is no problem.

And more, more, more...

Right, I am looking thoroughly for a real good hosting. What have I got to know? I have a bulk of 8 hostings that are already selected by me. But each of them have many bad reviews in Internet. Somebody had frauds there, somebody had other problems here.

So why? Why can not I have a good small hosting for my sites? For a comprehensive price? Why?!

Sunny days of our summer
Friday, August 12 2011, 02:39
Category: Photos, Tags: growing Petrogradskiy district Russia Saint Petersburg
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Saint Petersburg is not a warm city, it is why I love sun and, as many people around, wait for that.

Anyway, it is going to be finished soon: all these strong wind, rains, shops with watermelons in the streets... One more summer behind me. I hope, it was nice and was taken with all its pieces.

Somebody decided that their street should be filled with music in those early days of June. It is one of that ancient luxurious combined devices from USSR, I would like to have one. It can play radio, records.
Poplar wool around the Petrogradskiy district of Saint Petersburg (my house is a bit to the right). It was taken during my way from office.
Day of Pushkin city in suburbs of Saint Petersburg.
I visited the most eccentric part of the festival, I suppose.
Petropavlovskaya fortress, this people is trying to take sun baths.

Flowers in my balcony. I am proud a bit to grow these nasturtiums.
Old flowers born in the cold November under the artificial and wrong light of my mercury lamps (yes, they survived in the winter, when I was in Morocco).
Let our streets be more pleasant and full of beauty! Let us forget about grey and boring empty balconies!
The Telegraph. A country without any censorship writes 'news' about a country with one.
Wednesday, July 20 2011, 22:09
Category: Diary, Tags: Russia
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When I was young, USSR yet existed, so I know about the censorship a little.

Actually, I did not read newspapers that is a main target for a censorship. But I read children's books, stories about young Lenin (I was surprised how many stories exist). It was a bit strange to open a cooking book and, at its very beginning, to see a huge article about the living standards growing fast, about a number of unique nations in USSR...

But, you know, I think that the most things I saw (except for stupid stories about Lenin) was a quite reasonable thing: Oh, yes, we really had many people and cultures in USSR living together in that real harmony. We had some problems, but just look around: some ex-republics of USSR have senseless argues, some nations have felt to ancient feudal realms.

I heard and I still do that Soviet Union and Russia have this censorship. They do instead of some, I guess, modern and democratic countries. And these exact countries often say these words or give moneys for numerous 'democratic mouthpieces' here in Russia.

All right, I denied reading local newspapers about Russia and tried to find any English sources of 'democratic' news about my country. At the moment, I have my little silent question about my investigations: what is going on?!

Just make this little experiment: open the site of The Telegraph, chose to see news about Russia. I sure, the only articles about the most bad stories, facts. Only Putin as some evil king, only disasters, only bribes. As I understand, this nasty job is done by stupid people that can not even develop a new subject.

I live in the huge country full of people. This people are real people: they love, they look, they speak, run, cry, smile. We have some science, sport, travels. We have lots of events.

What is a reason to say always this bullshit in English newspapers? Why? Yes, I understand, that 'democracy' and 'philanthropy' cover real issues of UK, but is not that stupid to be a country of lies and to have some 'ancient alien' as Russia?

I know that we always where opponents (except for WWII, but Churchill hated Russia anyway). I know that an intelligent fight works for the progress. But this kind of fight is so awful...

P.S. One question still exists: which WWW-newspaper is good to read normal news about Russia?
Summer comes to Saint Petersburg
Tuesday, June 28 2011, 00:35
Category: Photos, Tags: Nature Petrogradskiy district Saint Petersburg Skiing
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There are not so many hot days in our summer of Saint Petersburg. Of course, like it anyway: its breath, its mood. People tries to be happy, calm. Summertime means many walks in the city, travels around the city.


Skiing is not very populare in summer, but here you can se an addictive person. :)
Really, trees.
Poplar wool frying around the city.
I love to hate pigeons!


Life after my return from Morocco
Sunday, June 19 2011, 14:12
Category: Photos, Tags: Casa Latina dance school friends Petrogradskiy district pigeons Saint Petersburg
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There are 5 months since I returned from Morocco to my native city of Saint Petersburg, Russia.

There is something strange about feeling last months: some old friends have gone, some other friends have come. I am changing my life style, habits. It is something to do with my age crisis, maybe. The most thing I care about is not loosing myself and not becoming that boring patient worker/consumer that things quite plain thoughts about money, family.

It is something substituting a normal door to the men' changing room in my home dance studio, Casa Latina. Many people went throuth this door, many people scared this door, too.
Shake it, shake it!
A bridge in Saint Petersburg, early springtime.
That is a local Armageddon in Gorohovaya ulitsa, in the center of Saint Petersburg. It is under reconstruction and looks just great!
One of the cute traditions of Casa Latina: an evening with perfomances from everybody who would like to do them.
Ugly pigeons rinse their ugly bodies in the dirty paddle. Yes, I love city pigeons very much.
I have moved to Petrogradskiy district of Saint Petersburg. It is an island, actually. Full of joy, funny people, small pubs, etc.
It is Erarta exhibition hall, a new place in Saint Petersburg. It is not the whole Erarta, just a piece of some exhibit.
A neighbour of the thing above.
Vilnius
Wednesday, May 18 2011, 23:40
Category: Travels, Tags: Vilnius
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I would like to say some words about Vilnius city where I spent some pleasure days during Harlem'2011 swing festival. Holy smokes, the festival was great and overcrowded. We found that Russian dancers were not used to dance in the real crowd, so there is something to investigate: others danced well and peacefully.

The bad news is that my camera broken in the beginning of my trip, so I rather speak about the city than show you photos. The good news is that I had more time for walking and looking around.

First of all, the city is fairly small, calm and nice. There are few people living (10 times less than in Saint Petersburg, for example). Many flowers, many nice courtyards (but you can be sent away by angry residents).

The other is its food. Mostly, it is much cheaper that in Saint Petersburg. For example, a main meal can cost 10€. It seems that food is tasty. Especially, I would recommend the vegetarian White Elephant (41 Vilniaus gatvė ). It has its own court, good beer, nice interior and many dishes.

You can travel around by foot, the Old City is not very big. There are small streets, museums (be aware: mostly closed in Mondays), churches. By the way, I would like to recommend their basilica of Saint Paul & Peter (1 Antakalnio gatvė). This basilica is a bit distant, but its interior is just awesome. The funny point: there are heads of elephants amongst moulding. Yes, heads of elephants (I am not sure they are mentioned in Bible, but they look lively).

The bad point about Vilnius is this Russophobia. It is great, it is huge, it is crazy and full of sick fantasy. They even have the museum of genocide (yes, they mean the genocide of Lithuanians). I hope, they will finish this strange practice someday.

MoroccanNook
Friday, January 28 2011, 12:25
Category: News, Tags: friends Morocco web
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I have finished the new site about Morocco: MoroccanNook.

Two separate sections are done:

  1. There are my travel notes and photos from many places of Morocco: Sahara, Marrakesh, Agadir, Essouira, the Atlas Mountains, Taroudant, Tan-Tan, the Atlantic ocean, etc.
  2. E-shop representing a little business of my friends. There are many goods from the market of Marrakesh (leather goods, mostly). It accepts credit cards, has 100% money-back. Welcome.
Travel to Morocco
Friday, January 28 2011, 11:29
Category: Travels, Tags:
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I returned from Morocco 2 weeks ago, it was a 2 month journey. The idea was to avoid all that disadvantages of ordinary 2 week vacancies with rushing through cities, planning trip in advance, etc. Everybody knows what I am talking about.

The 2 month journey is a very different life: I lived with my friends in Marrakesh, sometimes going to countryside, to other cities.  Being calm and having fun. So, I was to Sahara, to the Atlas Mountains, to Marrakesh, Casablanca, El Ouatia, Tan-Tan, Laayoune, Tarfaya, Taroudant.

Eventually, I made the separate site about this trip with sections related to the journey:

Photos
Photos made in Morocco: cities, people, nature.

Travel notes
I made some travel notes about people, their habits, worth places to visit. Hope, it can be useful for other visitors.

Total redesign of the site
Friday, December 3 2010, 05:14
Category: News, Tags:
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These issues have been done:

  1. New design for the site
  2. New hierarchy of files & pages
  3. New pages
  4. The blog has been changed to match the style
  5. The blog has got new categories, entries have been updated

Please tell me if you have any opinions or objections about. Some PAD files (for screensavers) could loose correct paths.

Time Waster 01 (balls) version 2.0 is released!
Monday, October 25 2010, 20:20
Category: Software, Tags: game html5
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Hello again, there is the first complete version of that game made by me before. I took some feedback and attempted to satisfy them all.

The game at separate page

P.S. Of course, any feedback is appreciated.

Some drawings/sketches just for fun
Friday, October 15 2010, 12:01
Category: Drawings, Tags:
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So, life still goes on. And I continue to draw some creatures to change my userpic in social networks, for my friends or just for fun. Anyway, viva my wacom tablet (and hope I will have money to buy a bigger one), viva la vida, etc, etc, etc. :)

Thinking monkey
(I started learning JavaScript)


In memory of a fly
died in my vine





Bored by this universe,
Olya leaves the samsara


I tried to find someone to
lend my flat for a while

New game: Time Waster 01 (balls)
Monday, October 11 2010, 15:25
Category: Software, Tags: game html5
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So, there is this new game that uses HTML5 features. It is fairly easy to play, but was hard to do. :)

A special page for it is here.

Actually, it is the beta of betas, so please leave your comments here. I would be happy if you leave either notes, opinions or just lols.

Words about code
Sources are reader-friendly with all comments to understand the routine. The engine used (DrawableManager) is mentioned to support different projects with layers of elements. At the moment, it all is under GNU/GPL licence.
At least, my first JavaScript program. For HTML5 users only. :)
Monday, September 27 2010, 15:20
Category: Software, Tags: html5
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Finally! JavaScript & HTML5 are learnt, the engine to operate with 2d planes in 3d is done & tuned.

Some words about HTML5: of course, being programmer, I prefere to operate with JavaScript & canvas elements of HTML5 insted of using Macromedia Flash. Moreover, HTML5 seems to be a technology for the future for a number of reasons.

It would be great if you told me about any problems with this content (and your opinions are very important, too). For those who have HTML5-incompatible browsers, is that special message appears correctly?

Thank you for watching! :)

After a long pause...
Tuesday, September 21 2010, 20:25
Category: Handmade, Tags: freak
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Kind of candlestick...
... That can hold incense
8-)
Actually, it is a hook for towels. It should be clued to wall.
It is strange, but it is a hook, too...
... Or just a funny sculpture
New avatar
Tuesday, September 21 2010, 20:21
Category: Drawings, Tags:
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It is my new avatar for some blogs. Isn't it cute? :)

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