Bureaucracy & War

If Western civilization dies, the reason of its death is its bureaucracy. There are thousands of urgent problems in the world. Mankind has no time to discuss variety of the possible solutions in the infinite way. The international community must solve the problem right now. The major among these problems is war. Humanity must do everything to stop it. Today, the only thing we see are officials those shift documents from one desk to another. As long as well-fed and contented people during the meetings leisurely discuss these or other problems in the conflict zones people are dying every minute… This is a sad fact all of us must keep in mind. Always.

David Bowie And ‘The Pretenders’.

David Bowie’s passing away appeared to be a pretty good test that revealed a lot of pseudo-intellectual pretenders. Many of people those never heard anything about David Bowie turned into his devoted fans. His popularity got the fantastic rise to the very possible top but unfortunately all of this sympathy was just a trend.  What a big shame! David Bowie was a great artist but he wasn’t a mainstream one. Please, don’t make him a mainstream person now. It’s just disgusting from your side!   

Ukraine 2016 News.

Almost all of the New Year holidays are over. What's new in Ukraine in 2016? There is absolutely nothing new. The part of the East is still at war and the rest of the country is becoming poorer. I really want to believe that something will change for the better soon. Those facts, we have now are very sad. You know, hope dies last…

  

Happy New Year 2016!

Today I want you to think about good things only. All of us need a bit of rest and then back to work with tripled determination. That is why there is no place for any bad thing these days. The refreshing must be total! If everything is good it shall be better and if everything is normal or bad it shall improve soon.  Happy New Year 2016! Be happy, safe & sound! I wish the best of luck to everybody!  

What Variant of English Is the Most Popular in Ukraine?

What variant of English is the most popular in Ukraine? Me as a person who has dedicated his life to the study of foreign languages can answer the question in the very best way.  Here, in Ukraine, everybody is taught as if London variant of British English in school.  In fact the most of secondary school graduates don’t speak English at all or use disastrous Ukrlish or Runglish. Those few really can communicate English prefer American English. Why so? The answer is simple the most of English intellectual products here are from the US so American English is more natural to local people than British English.  Talking about International English that is very popular in Europe it is worth to admit that it’s not needed here because Ukrainians are business contacted to Russians and Polish people in most of the cases and use Russian and Polish to communicate as well. The biggest part of Ukrainian companies with International contacts hires professional translators and interpreters those as I’ve already mentioned prefer American English.

News from Ukraine.

The war is as if over but the tension is still felt well anywhere here. Today’s elections show us that Ukrainian political forces are in heavy struggle. Their competition seems too keen for me. Sometimes I even think that they don’t care about Ukraine at all, the only thing they think about is their own popularity and influence here. I hope this is only my personal impression. Economy is being slowly improved. People say we will have economic troubles just after the election. Well, I hope the things won’t be so grave for us. The only thing that bothers the majority of Ukrainians is the dramatic increase of the housing and communal service tariffs.       

Chess And Capitalism.

And if you want, I’ll tell you a sad story about chess. A boy  lived in a third world country, he was called John, he grew up in a poor family, the child worked hard and one day, when he went to work, he saw two people playing chess. John liked the game, and he wanted to learn it. He lived from hand to mouth for a week and bought a board and pieces, then, John started to visit the local public library, and reread the only book about chess, that was there, for many times he almost learnt it by heart.

 

It was not surprising that John became a very good player and even beat the experienced old men on the street. Well, one day, John wanted to obtain an official international rating in chess. He sat down, thought and then wept. Why did it happen? Because John's salary was $ 100 per month, a single ticket to the city, where the tournament was, was of $ 25 price, the tourney enter fee was $ 55. There was no national federation of chess in John’s country. So why is chess in decay now?