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Overview

  • 10 references 7 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English, Russian; learning German, Polish
  • 38, Male
  • Member since 2009
  • wine retailer and wine journalist
  • Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University, Faculty of Physics
  • From Kaliningrad
  • Profile 95% complete

About Me

Left an IT career for wine retail and wine writing. Not surprisingly I have wine in my home in abundance (but moderation is advised). However, IT talks are also very appreciated in my home.

If you are somehow involved in wine industry, you should definitely write me, please.

You will also be extremely welcome if you are interested in such places as local historical sightseeings (say, remote castle ruins and abandoned churches) and such activities as hiking, kayaking and so on: I guess I have plenty for you to offer.

I'm far from denying private property and even considering myself a leftist, but I have strong sympathies to anarchistic ideas of self-organizing communities of any type and adverse impacts of a (particularly, the) state. (If you work in wine trade or production in Russia you almost inevitably end up like this, you see).

I'm a positive, open-minded person, although I hate tyrants of any kind.

Also being fond of practical shooting, I'm an IPSC member.

If you guess that we will have something to talk about and do together, do write me and do come staying. But if you merely consider my place as a hotel free of charge, you may refrain from addressing me.

Interests

wine, history, nature, IT, cooperation, anarchism it its moderate version, books on various matters

  • writing
  • books
  • wine
  • hiking
  • kayaking
  • hunting
  • history

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Spent a fortnight in an anarchistic semi-nudist community at the shore of a warm sea. It has been the happiest, most interesting and mind-changing experience in my life so far.

Countries I’ve Visited

Belgium, Brazil, France, Germany, Greece, Iceland, Israel, Japan, Lithuania, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Russian Federation

Countries I’ve Lived In

Russian Federation

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