trade and development, international relations, Financial crisis in 1990's, and all that other politically controversial stuff, EBRD, UN, etc....but i prefer just to get lost in my own thoughts

travel, music, photography, volleyball, art, drawing, literature, writing, poetry, philosophy, artsy bedlam, live in my dream world, freedom, rain, Black Sea...

Closer, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Motorcycle Diaries, Y tu mama tambien, Amores Perros, Cinema Paradiso, The City of God, Goodbye Lenin, Lord of War, The Dreamers, Fight Club, Garden State, Les Trois Couleurs trilogy, and everything French...The Diving Bell and the Butterfly!

The Fountainhead--Ayn Rand, The Bell Jar-Sylvia Plath, 1984, Homage to Catalonia-George Orwell, Brave New World-Aldous Huxley, Plays by Samuel Beckett and Eugene Ionesco; on the more existential note Nietzsche's stuff, Albert Camus, Jean-Paul Sartre; economics stuff: Paul Krugman's recent Nobel Prize book ....i read too much

“I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.- Einstein

“There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other.- Everett

"Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it."
"Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings."--Salvador Dali

"Молчать хорошо, безопасно и красиво."
"Время не предмет, а идея."--Достоевский

"I can accept anything, except what seems to be the easiest for most people: the half-way, the almost, the just-about, the in-between." Fountainhead