CURRENT MISSION

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ABOUT ME

Currently I am on the road digesting my education and keep on learning -- Arabic, machine learning and brain -- but most of all, people and places.

I can play one simple tune on an accordion for hours, naturally, so beware!

PHILOSOPHY

L,I:V-E.
*do not forget your life, previous and future*

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

meeting, surfing, hosting when i have a chance, advising

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

In 2007/08, I was quite active meeting and hosting in St. Petersburg. Then two amazing summer trips followed in western ukraine and no less western balkans. They happened just and only because of cs - while meeting and surfing in kiev, irpen, lviv, ivano-frnkivsk, moscow, helsinki, stockholm, belgrade, novi sad, zelenkovac, sarajevo, uzice, kragujevac, the hague
these experiences were/are really crucial for me, far more than just nice time spending: people were/are great, more than great: inspiring, astounding, completely different, on the high grade of "alive-ness". i know i learnt a lot and hope i gave something as well

Interests

people, trees, lava, bristlecones, bicycles, hitchhiking, road trips, goat backpacking, sustainability, languages, anthropology, brain, robots, natural language generation, russian politics, human rights, when oil is over*, cooking, nephews, opera, yoga, arsenal

• poetry
• dancing
• education
• human rights
• cooking
• yoga
• politics
• opera
• backpacking
• surfing
• anthropology
• teaching
• languages
• hitchhiking
• road trips

Music, Movies, and Books

reygadas, almodovar, herzog, jarmusch, godard, kusturica, svankmajer, chitilova, polanski etc.
a lot, really a lot! maler...bach... afro pop, afro jazz, ethno music, reggae, ska, world beats; auctyon, leonid fedorov, portishead, joy division, tom waits, leonard cohen, legendary pink dots, mum, mus, sigur ros, pink floyd, cocorosie, knife, blonde redhead, airiel, fun-da-mental, thom york, nico, xiu xiu, matthew herbert, matthew dear, jay jay johansson, regina spector, velvet underground, interpol, matt elliott, burial, pj harvey, feist, dusty springfield, dani sicliano, mediengruppe telecommander, felix cubin, matmos, philipp glass, steve reich etc.

non-fiction on cognitive science and linguistics. as to fiction, mainly russian: dostoevsky, erofeev, dobychin, shklovskij, jakobson, vaginov, harms, gladkov, pelevin, ilichevskij, turgenev, kuricyn, gelasimov, prilepin. borges, sontag, rushdi, joice, pavich, salinger, bukowski, miller, kerouac, faucalt, bart, baudrillard

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

*people all around, my family and various nephews
*rural Russia
*wolfs
*sharks
*oceans
*parachutes
*Huacachina
*..

Teach, Learn, Share

primitive west african dance
favorite asanas
a few poems by heart
pies

Countries I’ve Visited

Armenia, Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Egypt, El Salvador, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Hungary, Israel, Italy, Japan, Jordan, Latvia, Lebanon, Luxembourg, Montenegro, Netherlands, Palestine, Peru, Russian Federation, Serbia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine, United States, Vatican City State

Countries I’ve Lived In

France, Georgia, Germany, Netherlands, Russian Federation, Syrian Arab Republic, United States

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