the Republic of Crimea, summer 2025


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  • #105146 Reply
    Tatyana

      Friends 🙂 Do you want to see me and the place where I live and work?

      I bought a ‘selfie stick’, with a Bluetooth button and which can be transformed into a tripod. I attached my smartphone to it and ran around the streets near my house, filming for you what everyday life in Russia is like. Residential streets, not tourist places.

      Like a monkey with a new toy, I ran around with this stick, taking a piece here, a piece there. People sometimes looked at me with irritation, and sometimes with condemnation. Frankly, I felt stupid 🙂
      Respect to professional bloggers! it turns out this is a very difficult task, friends.

      I finally bring you a video.

      https://youtu.be/QBut-ijyLeQ

      #105147 Reply
      michael norton

        Hello Tatyana, I watched your film with interest.
        Certainly doesn’t look like a shortage of food or cars.
        I suppose there are still very poor people in some parts of Russia, as in almost all countries.
        In London on Saturday, was a very big march of patriots, this is pretty unusual for England.
        Estimates are between 100,000 and more than a million.
        https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/london-protests-tommy-robinson-march-live-musk-arrests-b2826464.html
        Mostly peaceful.
        This goes with “Raise the Flag”
        meaning flags on lamp posts and red crosses ( Saint George) on roundabouts.
        Exiting times in the United Kingdom.

        #105148 Reply
        michael norton

          Wot no bears.
          Everybody knows Russia is full of bears.

          #105149 Reply
          Pigeon English

            Were you packing novichok😃.
            Good picture and sound.
            Btw I don’t like to be filmed by strangers either!

            #105150 Reply
            Pigeon English

              Shame we didn’t see some of your products!
              Next time!

              #105151 Reply
              Tatyana

                You see, Michael, my KGB handler found out I was going to make a film, so the comrades majors went around the area and made all the owners tie up their bears so they wouldn’t accidentally get into the shot.

                Pigeon English, I’m sorry to disappoint you, but the only guys who have exclusive rights to ship Novichok are Bashirov and Petrov. You know, the two guys who appreciate the sights in Salisbury and who refused to say whether they were a gay couple when interviewed by Margarita Simonyan.

                #105152 Reply
                Tatyana

                  @Goose
                  take a look, I made a piece in my video, exclusively for you, at 17:45

                  #105153 Reply
                  Pigeon English

                    Someone has to wrap artistically and safely for transport 😃.
                    And has to be easy to wrap it again.😃
                    I joined this blog at that time.
                    If I remember you as well.
                    Happy anniversary 😃

                    #105154 Reply
                    Pigeon English

                      I don’t get Goos association?
                      Never mind!
                      I am pleased you addressed MJ😏
                      Txs god I went to 17:45 to understand that you aren’t blaming goose for not believing your identity!
                      Kiev is spelt wrongly 😃.
                      Of topic.
                      I watched polish you tube blogger in Moscow I believe asking couples of Russian about Varshavska metro station.
                      No one was bothered!🥳

                      #105155 Reply
                      michael norton

                        Chuguev, not far from the front in Kharkiv Oblast , said to have been founded by Ivan The Terrible, birth place of Repin.

                        #105156 Reply
                        michael norton

                          Repin
                          What an extraordinary artist

                          Sadko of Novgorod
                          https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sadko#/media/File:Ilya_Repin_-_Sadko_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg

                          oil-on-canvas painting by Ilya Repin, made in 1876 during a visit to France

                          #105157 Reply
                          Tatyana

                            Here’s something else I forgot to tell you about Crimea – there are favorable conditions for vines. There are several wineries, but I would single out Massandra. The history of this winery goes back to the 18th century, and they keep some old wines in their museum collection.

                            If there is a reason to drink alcohol, then I prefer wine. In my region, these are traditionally red and white semi-sweet still wines, and sparkling rose, white semi-sweet and brut.

                            With the return of Crimea, Massandra wines began to appear in our stores. These are port wine, sherry, Madeira, Marsala, dessert wines from Muscat grape varieties, and something similar to Tokay.
                            I didn’t pay attention to them, because they are quite strong drinks. Also, port wine has a bad reputation here due to the fact that in the USSR, a couple of varieties of extremely low-quality and cheap booze called port wine were mass-produced. This drink has a reputation as the choice of complete alcoholics.

                            But you can’t visit Crimea and not try the local wine products? Oh, it was an interesting experience 🙂
                            My husband and I went into the store and I chose what I wanted to try. The consultant was extremely polite and courteous, clarifying my choice, but he invited my husband to pay for the purchase 🙂
                            I encountered such a special attitude in Nalchik, Kabardino-Balkaria, when I visited my aunt. Such a cute chauvinism, or patriarchy. Women are treated with respect, but the accompanying man makes the decisions, and it goes without saying that he is the one who pays.
                            And you know what? I don’t mind 🙂

                            The drinks are interesting, and I liked the richness of the aroma. But unusually, perhaps this is not what I expect from wine. Sweet and thick wine that smells vaguely similar to Jack Daniels. Will definitely find its fans.

                            The most acceptable to my taste was this
                            https://photos.app.goo.gl/Gzd9CZzmbk5xmsM7A

                            #105163 Reply
                            michael norton

                              Tatyana, I beg your indulgence,
                              https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QFuX-4Y8J4
                              The War in Crimea, especially
                              The Charge of The Light Brigade
                              was massively important in Britain, in the nineteenth century.
                              So much changed after this conflict.
                              The empires of both Russia and the United Kingdom, reached their greatest extents.
                              hospitals, changed, how they went about business,
                              The American civil War, was based on how
                              The War Crimea played out.

                              #105164 Reply
                              michael norton

                                I think , it was a seminal series of events

                                #105236 Reply
                                Tatyana

                                  Some stupid cunt filed a complaine, and YouTube banned my channel. For deception and fraud! Can you believe that?

                                  I used YouTube to store my videos since about 2010. Short videos to add to my goods on marketplaces. Longer videos on crafts process. All formats of videos on my life.
                                  Nobody had any problem until I posted my latest video! ‘what life in modern Russia looks like’. And now they ban me for deception? Fir fraud? Bastards.

                                  I wish with all my heart that the complainant suffers from diarrhea until he realizes the full depth of his stupidity.

                                  In case this still might be of anybody’s interest, I posted the video to VK
                                  https://vkvideo.ru/video79390751_456239124

                                  #105237 Reply
                                  Neil

                                    Evening, Tatyana.

                                    Good to see you on here again. I got an “access is limited” message (in Russian) when I tried to look at that video. I can still see the vkvideo.ru home page, though. Hope you and your family are well.

                                    PS. I like your green hat!

                                    #105240 Reply
                                    Tatyana

                                      Neil, thanks for stopping by and thanks for the good wishes.

                                      I am so angry about this injustice!
                                      I think I’ll start a creativity marathon – I’ll remember these bastards every day in my prayers, wishing them all the adventures my imagination can invent.
                                      I just didn’t know what to do with my brain in the mornings on the treadmill so that the sport wouldn’t be so boring 🙂

                                      Until then, the internet is vast, so it’s a great excuse to explore different platforms.
                                      Neil, could you please check if you have access to RuTube?
                                      https://rutube.ru/video/723e0d5e8ea9f330762b6c5f04b51b41

                                      #105242 Reply
                                      Clark

                                        Tatyana, thank you for your video. Everyday life in Russia looks really quite similar to life here in England The main differences seems to be that the roads are a lot less busy, and your local health centre can do X-rays. I prefer the look of the older part of the city built in the 1950s, just as I prefer the older areas here too.

                                        I don’t see this supposed democracy you’re accused of undermining; it has all been undermined long since. I have been protesting against the British government’s support for the Israeli genocide of the Palestinians for two years now, with no appreciable effect. Various people I know have been charged with supporting terrorism for holding up cardboard signs; if that’s democracy then I’m Vladimir Putin.

                                        Your video plays fine for me on both vkvideo.ru and rutube.ru

                                        You may be able to get your YouTube channel unbanned by going through YouTube’s appeal procedure. YouTube has very few staff for the vast quantity of video that they host. I think they just ban automatically if there’s any complaint, without reviewing the content, but if you contest the ban a member of staff might (eventually) look at what you’ve posted.

                                        #105243 Reply
                                        Clark

                                          Neil, I’m using Firefox 142.0.1 (aarch64) on Raspberry Pi OS; Firefox has the uBlock Origin 1.66.4 add-on installed. The “access is limited” message may be being overridden by uBlock’s “annoyances” feature; I have all nine of those filters enabled.

                                          #105244 Reply
                                          michael norton

                                            Tatyana, I am sorry you have been abused by you tube.
                                            I am in a Volunteer group that I have been in for thirty years. I have lived in my same town for more than seventy years, yet I have been banned from that group because I can not mouth the politically correct words of the Labour run council.
                                            I am very cross, I have devoted 30 years of my life to doing free work for my community, yet my knowledge and integrity
                                            are no longer useful.
                                            Shit, the U.K. has turned to complete shit with this political mind warp.
                                            love and best wishes
                                            michael

                                            #105250 Reply
                                            Neil

                                              Success! I can access your rutube.ru video perfectly – well, apart from all those annoying popups, dozens of them. Perhaps some of them might go away if I were to subscribe. Apart from that, I really enjoyed your little video, you have a very calm and soothing voice.

                                              I’ll look at a few more videos there to try and get used to it, I’ll bookmark it in my browser. You seem to be very efficient, well organised and equipped in your workshop.

                                              Some good advice (as usual) from Clark re getting your access to YouTube back. I live in the county of Sussex, about 1 hour south of London by train, which means the town is very affluent, and it shows. The leaves are beginning to fall from the trees, all a boring brown colour, quite a contrast from the beautiful kaleidoscope of brilliant reds and yellows where I grew up in Scotland. The GPs (family doctors) don’t have X-rays, but there is a small local hospital which does, all the dentists have X-rays, as does the chiropractor (private, because the NHS doesn’t fund what it considers “fringe” medicine).

                                              Here we don’t have many tall blocks of flats, most are about 3-4 stories, but more recent ones are about 5 or 6 stories. Many parts of London look very similar to Krasnodar with tall blocks of flats, except that there’s no place to park (deliberate policy to discourage car use).

                                              #105255 Reply
                                              Tatyana

                                                The overload of cars is my city’s biggest problem! Where I live, there are underground and multi-level parking garages. But people stubbornly park near entrances, under windows, on the side of the road—basically, within range of their car alarms.
                                                The city’s infrastructure can’t cope; mornings and evenings are horrific traffic jams.
                                                No other city in Russia, including Moscow, where I’ve driven a lot, has this problem.

                                                In 1995, I finished school and came to Krasnodar to study languages ​​at university. A family living in Neftyanikov Town hired me as a tutor for their school-age daughter. I remember well how I used to get here by trolleybus, and this was the last stop on the bus route. The end of the city. There were only two-story houses and five-story Khrushchev-era buildings here. Nine-story buildings were rare.
                                                The site of my Repina Street was an industrial zone then, occupied by the remains of factories that withered in the 1990s.

                                                The city has grown incredibly since then.
                                                There are a few neighborhoods with cottages, but more often than not, new areas are built up with 17-story buildings like these. Land is becoming more expensive and developers prefer blocks.
                                                —-

                                                Today in the morning, while doing sports, I cast an anus itch on those responsible for blocking my YouTube channel 🙂 Not sure that’s the reason (maybe it was my appeal) but in any case, my channel is unblocked!
                                                Well, the marathon is canceled.
                                                I’ll put my time to good use; I’ve been wanting to brush up on my Turkish for a while, and maybe even start learning Arabic.

                                                #105256 Reply
                                                Tatyana

                                                  Clark, my special thanks to you!

                                                  #105264 Reply
                                                  Clark

                                                    Tatyana, you’re very welcome; thank you for your video. Please remember to uncast the anus itch, at least for the YouTube staff, if not for whoever lodged the invalid and presumably malicious complaint.

                                                    #105265 Reply
                                                    Clark

                                                      Neil, I got two pop-ups when I first accessed vkvideo.ru, but they each had clear Close Xs, and close they indeed did. I had no more after that. They were in Russian which I cannot read but they looked legitimate, e.g. a cookie notice and a request to subscribe, for instance. They didn’t look like adverts.

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