Andrey Vystavkin Blog

Yesterday, I’ve read the last (up to the moment), the fourth book – “Final Watch”, written by Sergey Lukyanenko. I can’t say, that I like sci-fi or fantasy books, but being honest, the way of writing reminded me Strugatsky brothers: good balance of action and narration, maybe that’s the reason why I couldn’t stop reading yesterday. I won’t write about the book, the author, because anybody can easily find a lot of information about it, but I was a little bit shocked, when I saw this interpretation of Night watch in the Scotland Sunday article:

The Cold War is not over. It’s just happening on a level most of us can’t see - in the Twilight, the murky reality beneath, or perhaps alongside, the everyday one.

What the heck does it have to do with cold war?!

Alright, there were some hints in the book, where the author was talking about the involvement of Others in history, again trying to keep the “ceasefire treaty”, and through all four books, the author is telling the reader that only men can act in good and bad ways [and also a small exclusion about high mages in the forth book], but there is nothing to do with Cold War: reckless schemes, underlying motives – sci-fi.
I’d say that the author of the article took not the best definition of confrontation between Day Watch and Night Watch. The definition of “Cold War” has enough of stereotypical comprehensions, which can cause a negative attitude for the book.
Fortunately, at the first days of selling the Night Watch in the UK, particularly all the circulation was sold out, and soon the Europe and USA will get the translated continuation of the tetralogy from Sergey Lukyanenko.
“Do you really think it’s the Final Watch?”

I haven’t been here for some time, and the main reason is: I’m alone now.
Now I understood, why people clean houses everyday, what’s the reason of cooking more then you can eat for one day?
After 2 weeks being alone at home, I’ve got tired! Not because of cleaning & cooking. I’m tired of thinking:” What I shall cook today?! How the heck did litter the living-room?! Where did this crockery come from?!”
Furthermore, I was planning to finish the CMS for a small library a week ago, but after cleaning the house the only thing I can do is to fell down and sleep, or fell down, watch TV for 30 minutes and get asleep.

Wife is required. Definitely!

If you are looking for people who have faith, it must be the jews. C’mon, they followed Mosses in the desert for 40 years, without the map.
There must be one guy at the end like:” I don’t know where he’s going. 40 years…are you kidding me? I’ve been 15 when we’ve started this trip. This footprint is mine, 40 years ago. We are walking in cycles!!! No, don’t “shush” me Sheila, enough is enough! I don’t care if it is there or not, you’ve lost Moses, you bastard! Get the bags, we going to open a delly!
I’m not a Jewish, I’m a catholic, and it’s like: “If you feel good. STOP!”

My favourite holiday is Easter, it’s when Jesus raising from the grave and coming back as a rabbit with coloured eggs. We used to go to the church every Sunday…until Giants went to the play-offs!..

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After posting a small reminder in my livejournal account for people who want to be a volunteer for tomorrow’s refuges ship arrival from Lebanon, I’ve got some comments about sharing this information in LJ Communities about Lebanese conflict, which has been started on the 12^th of July.

Of course, I’ve shared this info with the readers of the community, but going deeper in the posts about Lebanese war, I was a little bit shocked, because, particularly every post condemn Israel for (don’t forget!) entering the southern Lebanon to rescue Israeli soldiers, after the silence from the side of Hezbollah.

Tell you honestly, I’m against military way of solution, but since there is no other way, no one can do anything: Hezbollah has real power in Lebanon, and the official government can’t disarm the troops of Hezbollah.

Until Lebanese people establish order inside of the country and guarantee the stability, Israel will take care of these problems, because it’s the matter of their security. And that’s the fact!

And also a small reminder, from the Convention of 1933, the definition of the aggression:

1. Declaration of war upon another State;
2. Invasion by its armed forces, with or without a declaration of war, of the territory of another State;
3. Attack by its land, naval or air forces, with or without a declaration of war, on the territory, vessels or aircraft of another State;
4. Naval blockade of the coasts or ports of another State;
5. Provision of support to armed bands formed in its territory which have invaded the territory of another State, or refusal, notwithstanding the request of the invaded State, to take, in its own territory, all the measures in its power to deprive those bands of all assistance or protection.

My parents went for vacations back to Russia, and I had to stay in Cyprus: no hard feelings about that, but I haven’t been there for 3 years,honestly, would like to see the city where I spent the biggest part of my past years..

(The main square in 10 meters from the bay was renewed year ago, now it looks like this)

(The end of that square, and the monument for the 1943, when russian marine troops attacked the occuped city…Inside of the monument you’ve got the portraits of all the soldiers who were there)

The photos are taken from Novorossiysk Portal

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