Galina Toktalieva - Diary of Female Photographer©

Oct

18

Reiche Russen

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One of middle-class Austrians told me that many of rich Vienna people have villas in Meidling, so inspired by class feeling the rest of population decifer Meidling car code as “Mega-Depp”, what means big idiots. Some of rich Russians have also property there.

Oct

11

Sorry, Jörg!

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We will miss you, Jörg.
Sometimes I was walking along Dorotheergasse and seeing your black car, many a time I wanted to make a paparazzi shot of you coming up to this car and sitting down in it, and once I even succeed to make dim picture.
But you were always so swift and businesslike, it [...]

Oct

6

We both know how big it is

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After useless computer course, where I was send by district job office (AMS) together with other sad unemployed one month before national elections to improve unemployment rate statistics - I felt elated as if after six weeks of imprisonment.
We were forced to participate in this educational show under threat of losing allowance and had [...]

Sep

28

Once again about advantages of Austrian social system

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S/M Games with Employment Office, or Benefits of Forced Education
О пользе принудительного образования

Процесс глобализации идёт вперёд, но различия между Европой и Азией пока ещё существуют. Я имею в виду жизненные условия на территории бывшего Союза и в Австрии. Здесь, конечно, заметно больше порядка и продвинутости.
Но когда имеешь дело с такой организацией как [...]

Sep

25

Austrian election campaign going to an end

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This is my melancholic respond to Austrian media election campaign hysteria. Today coming back from my courses, I saw three young drug-users in the secluded carriage of the tube. They unpacked small container with white staff and sniffed it one after the other- two girls and one young man- using smooth glossy cover of election [...]

Sep

12

Medienmesse, Simon Inou

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One of the biggest Austrian newspapers “Die Presse” presented page, where foreign journalists of emigration can contribute their articles, opinions and ideas about life in Austria. From my point of view, this project looks rather promising.
Yesterday I visited emigration media exhibition and shortly talked to journalist Simon Inou,  the head of M-Media organization responsible for [...]

Sep

2

Minister Erwin Buchinger

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I would like to know what is going on in the head of such a man.

Erwin was born in 1955 in Mauthausen (Upper Austria). After taking a first degree in law and economics at Johannes Kepler University in Linz, Buchinger was awarded a doctorate in law in 1981. He then worked for ten years as [...]

Aug

29

Glance of Alfred Gusenbauer

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It was election campaign event in Vienna Stadthalle, which attracted thousands of people who expressed their support for social democrats prime candidate Werner Faymann.
I talked to a few ordinary persons who enjoyed themselves in buffet of concert hall during the speech of Werner Faymann looking at the screen of big monitor with his face, and [...]

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