Just wanted y'all to know. Time goes by and everything changes. Some services I used to use formerly I consider obsolete now:

- I don't use ICQ anymore, now I use only Skype (my login is "liapardus" there);
- I won't use my LJ scrapbook, now I'll store my photos on Flickr;
- I won't use this blog anymore, now you may find me on Facebook or Reddit ( Read more... )

Today is my birthday. I'm too exhausted to write out anythin' 'bout my crazy life here. I don't feel happy this day; my 26th birthday- it means I've got a year closer to my death. But I believe, the things will change someday and I'll learn how to smile again. I shan't give up.

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Today I had a walk 'round the Red Square. I passed across the square and straight up ahead was the Moskvoretsky Bridge- that one, where our opposition political leader, Boris Nemtsov, was killed on Friday, 28 February.


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This song's just like it is about the political and social situations in Russia. You only need to replace "Equestria" with "Russia" and "Discord" with "Putin."

Somehow I have to escape from
This nightmare of a world ours has become
What happened to the nation we all knew
We're crushed under Discord's Putin's rule

And of course:

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I just can’t overpass this song. I reckon it describes Russian politics pretty right. Please, keep in mind this one contains some strong words.

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“...But before we start what you need to understand is that you can not use your brain in order to understand Russia. Logic’s gotta go out the door immidiately when you talk about it. This might sound ( Read more... )

...or, like one of my friends said, “listen to me- old ill horse.” Here’re some ramblings that, I’m sure, nobody will ever read (I’m not even dreamin’ of gettin’ any comments!), but I have some spare time now and willing to write ’em down, so I will ( Read more... )

Having no English-speakin’ interlocutors I started to speak to my ‪iPad‬. Siri ain’t talkative, but at least it gets me and does what I want.


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A Russian Linux developer, Dmitry Monakhov has been arrested in the middle of Moscow for protesting against the war in Ukraine, even though the single pickets ain’t prohibit by Russian laws and don’t require any permission. When he was being arrested, some people screamed out insults and abuses.

This time Dmitry has been sentenced to jail for 15 ( Read more... )

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We, in Russia, have tons of “patriots,” who think that America is the world aggressor and Americans gave this world nothin’ but wars, violence, and destruction. But if you ask ’em, “what Russians gave to this world,” most of ’em will answer, “tanks, jets, Kalashnikov, H-bomb ( Read more... )