Galina Toktalieva for die Wiener Nachrichten Photo Galina Toktalieva It seems not long time ago I stood before Moscow grocery store, chilled to the marrow and hungry, eager to get my portion of buckwheat, in line with hundreds of other hopping, popping and clinking with empty bottles Muscovites. It was after putsch time, when Boris [...]
Galina Toktalieva for die Wiener Nachrichten Jetzt_mit_Übersetzung Whenever I go to Main Square with idea to make good photo of a horse, the blinders – leather flaps of bridle to keep horse from seeing anything on both sides – abash me. They say horses need those blinders to drag carriage with tourists forward. They also [...]
Galina Toktalieva for die Wiener Nachrichten Far-rights in Austria: hard times bring chauvinistic core of many to the surface (VIENNA) – The far-rights in Austria may get strong gains when the nation goes to the polls on Sunday to elect its 17 members of the European Parliament. The FPOe – with xenophobic slogans such as [...]
Galina Toktalieva for die Wiener Nachrichten A stage productions of the Vagina Monologues by Eve Enslerin in Kyrgyzstan was to serve goals of the Central Asian women�s rights movement. It is an episodic play based on interviews with over 200 women relating how they view their bodies, sexual experiences, sexual abuse and sexual violence. Central [...]
JETZT mit DEUTSCHE ÜBERSETZUNG! Reading through “Gulag Archipelago” by Nobel prize author Alexander Solzhenitsyn, I ponder again why elimination of millions took place and how such mass eradication was possible to maintain at all, not only in Soviet Union, but also in other countries of the world, including fascist Germany. Author writes, that organs used [...]
JETZT mit DEUTSCHE ÜBERSETZUNG There are 580 entries for ‘escort agency’ in Vienna yellow pages There are more than 1.506 registered prostitutes in Austrian capital. There is no data how many prostitutes work in Vienna illegally, at least 3.000. (Prostitution in Österreich, Wien, 2008, Bundeskanzleramt) In Österreich sind nach Schätzungen von NGOs etwa 5.000 bis [...]
