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sickmint79

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My recruiting company has offices in Moscow and St. Petersburg, I think they have really struggled last couple years, I think Western investment there had declined?

i wonder how much of this might be because of it picking up elsewhere?

i work with a lot of smart ukranian guys, think we are looking in to some other areas out there now too. the consulting company i was at prior has a fair amount of people in macedonia and kosovo now (albeit more junior) - in all these cases i'm talking about IT folk
 

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Last Sunday was Victory day here. It’s when Russia celebrates the end of of WWII. They have a big parade and some events. I missed the parade but got a few shots of the city and a flyover.


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I participated in the St Petersburg International Economic Forum this week. It’s like a Russian Davos. Admission fee was outrageous but made a few connections and had a couple meetings with local and federal government in addition to sitting in on a few panel discussions. Very interesting place to people watch.

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As I am sitting in the Russia-North America business discussion I look around and see a face that I recognized from the past but could not remember from where. I took a photo and then it hit me.

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Always enjoy your pics.

That's wild you spotted Anna Chapman.

Interesting to see all that booze in that booth picture, I've been to many industry conferences in the US and the most I see is a beer or wine cart near the end of the day.

The Bashkortostan booth was pretty much the only one set up like that. I didn’t go there for a drink but expected if I had they would have said it was for display purposes.

Mercedes had a big display set up with a new EQS and a big coffee bar - I spotted some bottles of gin and other stuff under the counter. Maybe it’s served on a case by case basis.
 

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Interesting situation yesterday morning - the power went out at about 08:00. I started by checking and resetting all the circuit breakers but nothing happened. I sent the landlord a message for him to look into it and he said he would. Terrible timing because it’s unusually hot here this week and has been hitting 36C/98F each day. Need the AC to keep the place cooled off!

I had an appointment and needed to leave and found that the elevator didn’t have power so I figured it was a building or regional thing happening. I came back and saw this.

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Strange temporary solution. They essentially ran a giant industrial extension cord from a nearby building and routed it down the sidewalk and into the service panel of the building. The good news is that they restored the electricity to the building within a couple hours. Hopefully no children go poking around in the service box! ?
 

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Found fresh jalapeños for the first time here, nearly impossible to find. Bought a bunch.
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Police arrested a couple guys near my place for fighting or something similar. They had at least 8 cops there.
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Construction guys dipping wood in some chemical before raising it up to the top of the building for repair. Guessing this some kind of fire retardant.
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First one of these I have seen. Pretty unusual.
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Time for some more randoms. Weather is getting colder here and we are losing a lot of daylight. Leaves are changing color and falling on the streets. Street sweeper is coming basically every day now and will probably be this way for at least another couple weeks.

Talk about a dumpster fire…. Garbage bin near my place caught fire
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They have a gun/grenade buyback program here but it doesn’t seem to pay all that well.
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