br23 blog - minsk, belarus

As we were enjoying the weekend in the beautiful Czech countryside, somewhere near to us a famous Belarusan Olympic medalist in aerials was busy getting another world cup victory (in fact, he is our only hope for a medal in Torino):
Špindleruv Mlyn, Czech Republic — Dmitri Dashinski of Belarus earned his third victory of the […]

Being an avid tennis fan I’m happy that tennis season finally kicked off, so every night I watch live reports from “down under.” The best match so far was Roger Federer’s battle with Tommy Haas, today, a real pleasure to watch. And before that Federer easily won against Belarus’ Max Mirnyi:
• Regal Roger Rolls Past […]

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Today’s issue of New York Times has an article about Belarus:
NYT. French Faces, Farewell: Belarus Has Beauties of Its Own (you might need to login to read it, but you can use a password from bugmenot.com for example)
NYT is reporting the news that are one year old, that’s something! Nothing new or interesting there anyway, […]

After running out of free space on my 60 GB drive, I bought a new 200 GB Maxtor a couple days ago. Installing it on my PC was quite an adventure (a bit embarrassing too), but at the end we figured it out.

My wife seems to have a lots of fun lately. Last week, she had a Thanksgiving dinner at a high-tech million-dollar house of a former vice-president of Microsoft (who has been a Microsoft’s VP for 10 years, now retired and moved to Czech Republic). He seemed to like her and even served her coffee personally. […]

• pig_slaughter3.mov (11Mb, QuickTime MOVie)
This weekend we had a great time in a village in Silezia. This is one of the short videos from the pig slaughtering on Saturday morning. The pig was shot about two minutes before, and still had convulsions, and the old guy Honza just slit her throat. The most funny thing, […]

I’ve finally bought a new camera, a smooth black 6-megapixel Olympus with impressive lenses (see it on Amazon). What I need now is to read a good introductory book about the art of photography. And I suppose I need an account on Flickr, or are there other cool places to host a photo blog? Any […]

So, the tennis season is basically over. Max Mirnyi of Belarus had an average and somewhat boring year, finishing 34th in the world and making $1.1 million dollars (a total of $6.2 million), the only highlight of the year being his doubles grand slam victory at the French Open. And our starlet Victoria Azarenka was […]

“Former U.S. president Bill Clinton will come to Prague next Friday. One of the initiators of the Prague forum is former Czech President Vaclav Havel. The participants are to include former Irish President Mary Robinson, Canadian former Prime Minister Kim Campbell, French ex-Prime Minister Lionel Jospin, former Brasil President Henrique Cardoso and Open Society Fund […]