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Hey there, It's 4th July but I haven't sent any posts since the end of May.... There have been a number of great events within this time.        From June 10th to June 13 we went to Dagestan, Derbent on the Kaspian Sea. It was an amazing experience and very pleasant time spent with Skav's friends Aldemir and Tanya who live there. I didn't swim in the sea as it's too shallow for swimming in this area. But the rest of our events there were exciting. Have a look at some pics: From June 22d to June 25th    Stepa and I went to Yerevan for his Cambridge exam KETs. He was very happy and loved Yerevan, which is a really beautiful and friendly city where all people speak Russian and welcome Russian visitors. Exam results will arrive in a month. A few pics are here: On July 3d we celebrated Slav's birthday. It was really good and his colleagues and students prepared a few surrises for him. It was great as all his colleagues love Slav very much. One of his post-gradu...

Hey there,  April and May 2022 were good for us. In April Nina Epikhina and I went to the exhibition of Bosk and Breigel next to the Church of Ioanne Voin built in 1712 at Yakimanka. It was very interesting. On April 24 we celebrated Easter at dacha. It was very warm and cosy there. In May we went to Turkey - hotel "AMARA" near Kemer. The weather was sunny but at times windy and foggy, yet I swam in the sea. Slav swam in the pool. We stayed there from Aprol 28 to May 10. In the mid May I went to the meeting with my ex-chemistry university-mates at the MSU. It was the 50th anniversary of our graduation. I saw several ex-mates but not always it was funny... Now we're looking forward to going to Dagestan (Makhachkala) on the 10th of June. I hope it'll be fine. Love and hugs to all my dearest.

March has passed very quickly with all these problems between Russia-Ukraine.(R-U) We don;t watch TV very often, but both Slav and I are tired of the flow of the bad info coming from the screen... Besides , Olia has had some problems caused by R-U conflict because in the US there are many more Us than Rs who are agressive to Rs. For example, Yana's God mother is one of them as she's from Kharkiv... Well, we visited Slav's sister Alia and her grandkids in Belgorod in mid-march and after that we stayed in Moscow for the rest of the month. My business with Cambridge exams and inspections has been temporary suspended for the known reasons. This March is very cold and snowy here, we still have snowdrifts. Anyway, I don't want to complain but the time is really hard now. Hugs to all my dearest...

Hey there, Feb's passed and the war between Russia and Ukraine began. But it'll be covered mostly in March report and now about February We had three birthdays in Feb- Marina's (15), Nana's (16) and mine (27th). Let's look at some of them:                     I got sick with Covid (Omikron) in mid Feb after watching the film "Gucci Family" in the movie theatre. My illness was awful as it was accompanied with other problems relating to my female organs. But thanks God!, I made all the medical check ups and they said I had no cancer. That'simportant!. Hugs to all my nearest and  dearest. I'll tell you more about our trip to Tbilisi next time, in the March publication.