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HOT News
May 09, 2008
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Today, on May 9th 2008, we celebrate one the main holidays in our country the Victory Day, the Day of the Great Victory over fascism and defeat of Nazi Germany in 1945. This morning, from 10 till 11 am, passed grandiose Victory Parade on the Red Square. It was the first Parade during the last 17th years (after crash of USSR) where were used modern military hardware as like modern tanks, rockets and even aircrafts. In the military parade participated more than about 8000 people, more than 100 units of
motorized military equipment and 32 military aircrafts showing the modern defense technologies of Russia. The parade was finalized by our best pilots who flied over the Red Square (about 300 meters height) on strategic missile carriers Tu-160 and Tu-195MS, military transport airplane An-124 Ruslan, 2 Il-78s, a bomber Tu-122, fighters Su-25 and-27 as well as Mi-8 helicopters.
With the current hot news I would like to send greetings to our veterans, defenders of our Motherland and to all people in the World with 63rd anniversary of Great Victory and finalizing the most terrible war in human history. During the Great Patriotic War 1941-1947 were died more then 27 million people in USSR… Health, Peace and love to all people in the World!!!
Have a look on my new picture dedicated to the current hot news: "Commanders and Flags of Forces"
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May 05, 2008
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The general repetition of Victory Parade in honour of 63rd anniversary of the Great Victory (1945) passed on May 5th. In the military parade on May 9th (Victory Day) will participate about 7000 members of the armed forces plus 400 troopers in mechanized military motorcades, but also it will be brought into play 32 aircrafts of Air Forces of Russian Federation.
On May 9th 2008 it will be the first parade during the last 17 years (after Soviet times and crash of USSR), when during the military parade it will be used tanks, rockets and even aircrafts reestablishing military traditions of our country to commemorate more than 27 million soldiers and civilians, who died during the war 1941-1945, and glorify might of our nations who were able to stand and to win the war against Nazy Germany.
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April 27, 2008
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On April 24th, I met at the airport John Winter and his wife Donna from Wisconsin, USA. Back in March, they had requested my services for April 24-29. During the past month I had been corresponding with them many times in order to make and interesting itinerary for their stay in Moscow (I booked an apartment for rent, organized a long distance trip to Suzdal/Vladimir, made interesting plans for sightseeing in Moscow to include the popular sites based on their interests.… In the same time, my colleague in St. Petersburg, Olga, booked for them accommodations and made a sightseeing itinerary from April 30 to May 9th for St. Petersburg and Novgorod (ancient town, one of cultural centers of Medieval Russia).
On their way to Moscow from the U.S. John phoned Amsterdam during their layover and informed me that he just realized that the entry dates on their Russian VISA were only for 3 days-- from April 24 to 26. He had not checked the dates when he received the VISA via post from the Russian consulate in Seattle. While he was on the way from Amsterdam to Moscow, I made several phone calls to try to solve their problem. But after calling their hotel (Holiday Inn Lesnaya) in Moscow; the US Embassy; and also talking with experts from Russian VISA Online all of them said it is not possible to extend the current VISA once they have crossed the border into Russia. By law, they have to leave country according to the entry dates stamped on their VISAs and, if they still would like to continue their trip to Russia (St. Petersburg part), they have to go to the closest European county, for example Poland or Finland, and apply for new VISAs there...
You can continue to read the story here: "A case with Russian VISA"
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April 21, 2008
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The ballet "Romeo and Juliet" was shown in Moscow from 18 to 20 of April by the troupe
"Deutsche Oper am Rhein" from Düsseldorf and it was a part of the Festival of Modern German Choreography supported by Roland Berger Strategy Consultants. The Festival, which runs from March 27 through April 24, showcases the best German performers and strengthens the cultural interchange between Germany and Russia.
On April 20th, I provided a city tour to three young dancers from this troupe. When we were walking around the area of the Red Square and GUM, I took a picture of the ballet poster which was hanging on one of many theater ticket offices in downtown. Also, in my special photo album dedicated to "My Dear Clients" you can see the picture of my recent clients (Colleen, Louisa and Tau), in famous department store on the Red Square: "Trio Touring GUM".
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April 17, 2008
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If compare with nice sunny warm days at the beginning of the month, during the last week the weather in Moscow became nasty, lots of rains and low temperatures, but today was quite exciting day for my current clients, Tom and Kerry from Australia. They hired my services far in advance (in January) on the dates of thier staying in Moscow, from 16 till 19 of April, with planning personal itineraries for sightseeing tours and and purchasing tickets in Old Circus.
On today, April 17th, I planned for Tom and Kerry a special countryside tour to Air Force Museum in Monino and Sergiev Posad (Holy Trinity St. Sergious Lavra). Followed by our special itinarary we arrived to this museum (located 38 km on East from Moscow) on time, even a bit earlier, and already at 9:20 our local guide, former military pilot, started excursion around the territory (area) of the museum filled with a lot of aircrafts, planes and helicopters explaining history of Russian (former USSR) military aviation.
It was quite cold and humid this morning, forecast expected rainy weather for today, but HOW my clients from Hot Australia was excited, when it started a snowfall with quite big flakes (click on the picture to enlarge it)! Of course, Tom and Karen not felt comfortable in such bad weather conditions (0..+2 C, rain with snow), they not used to this climate conditions, but Tom was so excited to see the snow first time in his life that he even forgot about his frozen fingers at the moment!
You can continue to read the story here: "Excursion under snow"
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