Author: Rauf Aliev

Sitting at Almaty airport, reading the news. “…Due to the devaluation of the Russian ruble, Kazakhstan plans to impose an embargo on the import of some Russian goods and restrict the import of others from Russia. Specifically, this includes oil products, cars, chicken, flour, and confectionery products..”

More than one person in Almaty has told me that crowds of Kazakhs are traveling to Russia for cars, appliances, and other costly goods. They are even organizing shopping tours now.

Example: In Almaty exchange bureaus, rubles are sold for 2.85 tenge (source: valuta.kz). My LG G3 D856 phone here costs from 117500 tenge to 129000 tenge (source: Yandex.Market). The cost of the phone in Moscow – 29900 rubles (same source) or 85215 tenge. So, ordering the phone from Russia is cheaper by 32000 tenge, which is 37% of its price in Russia.

http://www.novayagazeta.ru/news/1691416.html

Cake designers are on fire

Before the descent;)

Great weather!

Hooray! I somehow learned something

In Almaty, it is normal for “taxis” to stop with passengers to pick up new ones. Between adjacent intersections, we stopped 4 (four) times. We didn’t pick up anyone – it wasn’t on the way.

A very interesting educational channel, Kurzgesagt. I’ve already watched three videos. Just today, I finished a book that, among other things, discussed gravity and atomic physics.

A night, a street, a lamp, a drugstore

A meaningless and dismal light

A quarter century outpours —

It’s all the same. No chance to flight.

You’d die and rise anew, begotten.

All would repeat as ever might:

The street, the icy rippled water,

The store, the lamp, the lonely night.

//Blok //4 Alisa A Hale

French translations are not so beautiful http://www.translitterature.fr/media/article_31.pdf

Passed by the burning INION today. The report on what was there before the fire is impressive.

@[100001539238582:2048:Dmitry Voloshin]

http://vas-s-al.livejournal.com/465197.html

Visited my first place of work, the company “Bazis” (http://bazissoft.ru). In the photo – my first teachers, Nikolay Kaskevich and Pavel Bunakov, how happy I am to see them again after 24 years! Back in the 10th and 11th grades, I was “coding” something here in Turbo Pascal 5.5, if I remember correctly, it was at least the “Bazis” installer from 5.25″ floppy disks. At that time, the “Bazis” Scientific Production Association was making software for the machine industry, similar to AutoCAD, but now they are leaders in the field of automation of design and furniture production.