IWD

Today is the payback day for men in Russia – the country celebrates International Women’s Day. What has started in the beginning of the 20st century as celebration of anti-sexist movement and fight for equal rights for women transformed into something completely different. What I actually witnessed back there was women demanding attention (in form of chocolates and flowers) from men for being female. A standard expectation for the day would also include household duties transfer to the man. For that day only!

The most stupid thing I saw though was women congratulating each other on being women! That is still beyond my understanding. It’s not an achievement – being born a woman, is it? I mean, I can get the mother’s or father’s day – where one made a decision to become a parent. I also understand the idea of Valentine’s. But celebrating one’s sex – it’s not anti-sexist at all, is it?

Hockey team killed in plane crash in Russia

RIP to these boys as to so many others who died or are about to...

Terrorist attack in Moscow airport

I don't want to speculate who might be responsible for another bombing in Moscow. I will just refer you to Wikipedia table showing terrorist attacks by countries (scroll the page down) - if you search for Russia, you will find 23 attacks during the last 20 years - now they are 24. Seems like countries like Pakistan, India and Israel - where there is a conflict of some kind going on - can only claim the same frequency.
I remember too well 1999 when I was not able to sleep fearing that our apartment building might be the next one to explode - and I have never been a person with rich imagination. I also remember that one of my close friends overslept one day and missed the subway train that exploded - she was on the next train actually. I wish I did not have such memories!
One more thing - my mom is arriving at that airport next Monday - it was our luck that we did not order the tickets for a week earlier, wasn't it?

Nazism under the Kremlin's wall

Knowing that my blog is not popular at all, I still want to share the news from Moscow hoping that better awareness of the issue will help avoid the worst scenario from development.

Here you can read what happened in Moscow another day. Here are the pictures. The comments are in Russian, but the pictures talk for themselves. I was especially shocked by pics # 23 and 24. The grandparents of these idiots fought and died not to let the brown plague - fascism - take over their country in the Second World War. 10% of the country's population died then - to let the rest survive.

The situation in the country is not easy one - corruption allows those who have connections or money to avoid proper prosecution if they break the law. They can get away with anything - including murder. I am not saying that the southerns from Russian Caucasus region behave properly in Moscow - many of them are indeed rude and violent. However, it is the local law enforcement who must take care of the issue. Also the hooligans that comprised most of the mob on the riot are not peaceful or well-behaved either. When the rage of the people is not aimed at the rotten system, but at a certain nation - that is scary once you know German history of 1930s. The country population was struggling with poverty as well - and Hitler was one to point his finger at Jews to blame for the situation. Everyone knows how that ended. I am sure that there are certain people in the government directing the situation this way, being sure they will gain more power, control and money out of it. Big German corporation leaders were also supporting Hitler with the same rationale. They did not gain anything eventually.

There is a citing - unfortunately, I do not remember who said it - "People that does not remember its history, does not have a future" - I do wish that those who took part in the riot were more aware of their own history!