CURRENT MISSION

PhD student

ABOUT ME

living in Bloomington, IN ;studying for Ph.D in political science.

PHILOSOPHY

in vino veritas

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

couchsurfed in Europe and USA

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

had some great experiences in Europe and USA during the last few years, have met some amazing people

Interests

books, movies, alcohol... the regular stuff

• cats
• books
• politics
• movies
• jazz
• guitar
• divinity
• languages

Music, Movies, and Books

my favorite writers are Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Jorge Luis Borges and Haruki Murakami. Also many great dead russians as Vladimir Nabokov, Sergey Dovlatov,Anton Chekov, Nicolay Gogol, Michail Bulgakov, Ilf and Petrov. Arturo Peres-Reverte, Jack Keruak and Milan Kundera are also good for certain mood. From poets will probably choose Sergey Esenin.
My professional interests include comparative politics (Russian and East European in particular) and political theory (Carl Schmitt and Frankfurt school guys)
I listen to many different music from Depeche Mode to Megadeth, from John Coltrane to Igor Stravinsky, from DDT (russian rock band) to Shuli Rand (great israely singer)
My favorite movie directors are Tarantino and Cohen brothers
I also have vast interest in Soviet culture (movies, music,animatia ets)

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Dali museum in Figueres... really amazing place to be
Brugge is also wonderful city, as well as Belgium-Netherlands area

Teach, Learn, Share

can play and teach bass guitar (mostly rock tunes but also some jazz moves)
i love political philosophy so i'd love long conversations through the night about alienation, political theology, discourse theory and many other meaningless things (:
would love to learn different languages and become a better go player

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Belgium, Canada, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, England, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Mexico, Netherlands, Russian Federation, Slovakia, Spain, Ukraine, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Israel, Ukraine, United States