Incredulous world. Young beggar is very invading and has writing at his cap: “Fuck rules” Every time I appear in Graben, he begs for coins from me. I regretted very soon that I ever noticed him and decided to be charitable. In-born beggars sense very quickly who has no nerve to reject. I have strange feeling whenever I provide help to young strong men. I feel ashamed. Perhaps, my mother instincts are not so well developed. Later I came to conclusion, that not only beggars have their own life philosophy, but similar philosophy has newspaper that represents them. I say not a single word more. But Russians have proverb: Fish starts to decay from its head.

During last two days I was out of breath making meticulous review of major Russian newspapers and agencies, who could be potentially interested to gain their own Vienna correspondent, including Izvestia and ITAR-TASS, main Russian news agency with millions of readers auditorium.
Russian press has rather distant and occasional interest to Austrian life that could be completely satisfied by stories about Natascha Kampusch and pricelists of Tyrol Ski resorts. Kyrgyzstan, where I was born – is out of question at all, because budget of largest agencies and newspapers can not afford to support own correspondent abroad.
Russian and Central Asian media if at all, have representatives in Germany.
I also made review of Austrian press, and became aware of fact that political and social life of Austria how it looks like in media- has somewhat reduced vigor, comparing of those in Moscow. Throbbing political pulse is something for other country and other national character. Austrians are mostly about music, museums, beer and schweinsbraten. They are also fascinated by words -nackte- and -models-. When I analyze Google search criteria that lead weak flow of visitors to my websites, I can see that 97% of them used -reife model Galina Toktalieva and -nude models- keywords.* (more…)