I hope this will be a good one for all of us. The Russian Orthodox Nativity will be on January 7th, but I’m happy to send the greetings to all of you who celebrate Christmas today. By the way, while I...
A historical moment: Uganda passes the anti-gay law, to protect African children from paedophilia and LGBTQ+...
Victory Day Parade and the Immortal Regiment have returned to Red Square on May 9, 2022. We celebrate this day with our veterans and children....
A Letter from the year 1925 from a collection Letters from Father Christmas by John R.R. Tolkien. Narrated by Julia Shuvalova...
Dave McKean Mirrormask is a film where reality is a constrantly changing, dreamy work of art. The interview explores the artist's views of art and life....
Belated Snowfall in Moscow finally comes down on the city...
Since I took a photo of rain in Wales in 2009, I have been wondering if and when I’d be able to do it again. Ten years later, on October 1st, 2019, I recorded not only rain, but the fall, too, o...
Over the last month I visited three different countries. This year, in general, I visited four different countries: France, Estonia, Latvia, and the UK. Scotland, for that matter, is sadly still a par...
Tomorrow Russia and a few like-minded countries celebrate the International Women’s Day. I wrote a post on this earlier. Some countries, like the UK, celebrate Mother’s Day, hence there wi...
This is the poem I shall be working on translating, most likely, in 2013. 2012 has resulted in a few good translations of poems, as well as some prose pieces. Among them – translations from Robe...