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Well, there has been nothing much to happen recently. However, I'd like to mention a couple of rather remarcable things.Firstly, good news. It crossed my mind that Stanislaw and I have been married as the Christians for 8 years already. Today (November 24th) is our 8th year anniversary. Before that we had been in a civil marriage which is not supposed to be recognised by the God. So on the big day of November 24th, 2000 we decided to be blessed by the God in the Holy Trinity Church in Udelnaya (it's where our dacha is situated). This church is a good old one that has not been closed down in any hard times in Russia. It's very important as many churches were either pulled down or converted into sth awful (sometimes even toilets).There were only two of us and the prist, Father Vadim, who ran the ceremony. I'm happy this event took place in our lives as we both belong to the Russian Orthodox Church. Well, another news is not so good: four out of six of our pond fish died a

Dear all. By the way, quite a number of interesting things happened to me over the time I didn't post to the blog. Perhaps, I'll share with you some of them later on, however, the most exciting was our first encoutner with Marina's new dogs this weekend. She brought them to our dacha and I could'n help admiring them. Imagine, they are one month old (born on October 12th) and the breed is Cony Corso (if I'm not mistaken with spelling). Their Mom Amanda (you can see her with Konstantin, Marina's boyfriend in the photo) is only one year old and this pregnancy was not a planned one. She gave birth to 10 puppies (8 black and 2 steel-like) just out of the blue. It occured because she was not looked after properly (Marina was busy, as usual) and Badjio, the male Cony Corso dog living there, too, was walking freely at their dacha in Chekchov. The result of this adventure is obvious - these amazing puppies. Now, we've uploaded an Internet announcement to welcome so

Hi, there. The week after Ekaterinburg was pretty busy as I had to catch up with some things I postponed and I had no time and opportunity to do anything for pleasure. But still, I managed to take some good photos of Moscow and around my dacha (outside Moscow) on those early days of November. The weather is really very bright this autumn and everything looks great. The occasion for taking photos of Moscow I had on my way to BKC IH (to return materials for training session in Ekaterinburg), just in the city center, and also in Krilatskoye, a new area of Moscow where the famous Rublevskoy highway runs (rich new Russians live there). I got there by chance, to have my car mended as I was promised a good car-service there. Have a look at the photos and you'll notice some signs of changes in Moscow. On the whole, Moscow looks very neat and tidy these days as a great number of cheap workforces from ex-soviet countries are doing the job of cleaning, sweeping etc. Anyway, they do it well an