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Random thoughts. Sometimes I care only about Kyiv. Sometimes I can't bring myself to care about any other place in Ukraine but Kyiv. W...

I'm tired of many things now, very tired in general, have only slept through the night twice since January 19, when the protests at Hrus...

2 AM, Friday-to-Saturday night. Cihangir, Istanbul. I've just spent over half an hour watching an absolutely awesome bus rescue operat...

The sea and the ferries of Istanbul - and now London's gorgeous parks as well: urban tranquility zones that I miss having easy access to...

Earlier this week, I took a stroll along a cordon made up of two or three rows of huge guys in black riot gear. They were there to contain...

The only comment I've got so far on my most recent Ukraine piece for GV - which mentions Donetsk a few times - is this: Who cares ab...

Woke up to the sound of communist marches outside. Explained to Marta that it's the day when people are a bit more eager to fight with e...

Here's something to encourage myself to get up and go to the polling station: Refat Chubarov, #111 on the United Opposition list, sp...

Too many elections since 2004 - since Maidan - but not much effect. Interesting to think of how optimistic some of us were eight years ago...

[I need more space than Twitter and Facebook are giving me. More air. I'm tired of counting characters and words when I write. I need to...

As part of my attempt to do some spring cleaning online, here's a list of my "stray" blogs. On Blogger: - Moscow Snapshots...

They did lots of awesome things together when they were younger. She was always ahead of him, always in front of him, he says, when they ski...

Dearest friends, Wishing you lots of joy, health and fun in the New Year! Much love and warmest wishes, Veronica

Maidan 2004 - seven years ago:   From my Facebook page (which this blog has long become secondary to, unfortunately...): ‎ 200 photo...

Autumn does weird things to me. After spending a few hours listening to Arthur Meschian's songs and reading Mark Grigorian's posts ...