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Red Phantoms-2

June 22, 2008 - 7:55 pm - Posted by Galina

One flew over Cuckoo’s Nest ( Ich flog über’s Kuckucksnest )
When I was 19 years old, I failed entrance examination to the Kyrgyz university.
First exam was English and I passed it very well. Then it came turn of composition. We were to write a few pages on the theme �Communism and future of humankind�.
Instead of [...]

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Red phantoms. Scarlet thread of my craze

June 11, 2008 - 8:45 pm - Posted by Galina

Group of people in Mariahilfer Strasse, Vienna
Zhanna
It was sunny spring of 1982. The university alley of apple and peach trees was all pink lace of blossoms. The air was fresh and clear. But I was ascending marble staircase of main building with monument of Great Chief at the top feeling chill in my heart.

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Open email to chancellor Alfred Gusenbauer

April 4, 2008 - 7:27 am - Posted by Galina

Dear Mr. Gusenbauer!
Excuse me for breaking rules and sending you photo with a piece of nudity, but I do not see other way to attract your attention to the point.
I am freelance photographer and journalist, and once you posed for me and other photographers during election campaign in Graz in autumn of 2006. Unfortunately, [...]

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Memories

March 13, 2008 - 10:09 pm - Posted by Galina

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I miss Graz and its streets more than I miss Kyrgyz steppes, and it seems both are lost forever, though first [...]

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Oesterreich

October 10, 2007 - 10:11 am - Posted by Galina

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 [...]

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