The other day, the Kharkiv office of EchoStar turned five. Back then, in 2007, the company’s team was formed mostly from students, graduate students, and staff of the Faculty of Computer Engineering and Control at Kharkiv National University of Radio Electronics. We worked with some of them, studied with …

I usually don’t talk to taxi drivers. But today he started it.

“Look, they didn’t get the roads done for Euro 2012, even though he promised he’d do everything! What will foreigners think when they see this? This is our home, what will they think of us …

This week I filmed an ad for an LSD TV.

The kids are thrilled with LSD. Especially the one on the right.

On my way to work in the morning, my eye caught on a book stall. I was disappointed to find it had nothing but fiction. But today the seller got lucky: I noticed a book by Anton Semyonovich Makarenko titled “Pedagogical Poem.” Anton Makarenko is our countryman, an outstanding educator …

Renderings of the interior of the Kharkiv airport’s VIP terminal have become available online. For example, here’s the waiting lounge:

And here’s the check-in desk:

Compared with how it used to be, it’s night and day.

Kharkiv is getting better and better, and that can’t …

Construction in Ukraine has its own peculiarities. At the minibus loop by Proletarska, they were rapidly building a simple little one-story shop. They built and built, and finally built it. Once, walking past, I even saw the signs: “Inexpensive Shoes” and “We’re Open.”

But with the arrival of spring …

I recently finished reading Jiří Toman’s book “The Art of Speaking.” As the title makes clear, this book is about how to speak beautifully and competently. Communication is a very important skill. You need to communicate a lot and often: with family, with friends, with colleagues at work; some …

Yesterday Wikipedia—the No. 1 site with free term papers on all knowledge—turned 10. It was decided to mark the date with the whole Kharkiv community of Wikipedia contributors.

The meetup began with a visit to the Kharkiv Art Museum. The exhibition of photographs by Alexey Ivanitsky (1854–1920 …

Recognize the bunny?

In the Kharkiv Metro, at Universytet station, a five-meter bunny of ill fate has been installed. If you walk up to it and pet it, it will do you-know-what.

— Where are you headed? — To the metro. — Not meant to be!

Last time, the editorial staff of our blg wrote about the design of the map for the Kholodnohirsko-Zavodska metro line. Today, a photograph of the Oleksiivska line map has been obtained from reliable sources.

Of the pictograms, I liked “Ice-cream Cone,” “Trash Can,” “Moon Path,” and “Some Damn Thing.”