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Seychas my tak prikovany k telekam, esli ne na ploshchadi, kak nikogda. Na vsekh kanalakh zhurnalisty proveli zabastovki, chtoby im dali vozmozhnost' realizovat' svoi professional'nye vozmozhnosti i ne rabotat', kak prostye diktory, chitat' o tom, chto napisali v administratsii prezidenta, t.e. po 'temnikam'. I dobilis' svoego. Teper' mozhno smotret' kanaly i informatsiya skol'ko raznaya, chto neuspevaesh' prereklyuchat' kanaly, potomu chto informatsii mnogo i ona nasyshchennaya. Seychas k nam priexali kak posredniki Solan i Kvasnetskiy. Ne uverena, chto dostignut kakogo-to rezul'tata, slyshkom vlast' daleko zashla.
"Now we are riveted to our television sets, if not out in the square, as never before. On all the TV stations the journalists cover the strikes, in order to finally realize their possiblities of their profession and not simply work as simple announcers, reading whatever the president's administration has written. And they are getting theirs. Now one can watch the stations and there is so much information and it's all so different that you can't even change the channel because it's so saturated. The mediators Solan and Kvasnetskiy arrived. I'm not sure that they'll reach some kind of result, the government has gone too far."
U menya, v sem'e, kak v strane, obrazovalas' oppozitsiya, kaolitsiya. Ya sobirayus' na nedele uezzhat', khochu poexat' v kakoy-nibud' sanatoriy do Novogo goda pobyt' vne doma i dat' im vozmozhnost' pobyt' bez menya. A mozhet byt', spokoyno tam umru.
"In my family, just as in my country, there have formed an opposition and a coalition. I'm getting ready to leave in a week, I want to go to some sort of sanitorium and stay there until the New Year, and give them some time here without me. Perhaps I'll just die there in peace."

It's no fun to live in interesting times.

Thanks very much for the ping, struwwelpeter. I have had a busy last two days with company for Thanksgiving, but I hope to get caught up on the threads this weekend. Still praying for the Ukrainians, please join me everyone.

--- It's no fun to live in interesting times.

It's tricky, that's all. Enough distance to keep some sense of humor but close enough to remain true to genuine Hope (if not Optimism...two very different animals).

Am keeping them all in my prayers.