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You can have a lot of thougts when you've had a couple of champagne glasses... And all of them would be different from those you got when you're totally sober. Unfortunately, alco vapours could baffle you to write them down.

It's only 10.36 AM in Washington, DC. July 4th. USA Independence Day. Good morning, US's 233rd anniversary!

Hurrah! It's so wonderful to be healthy! Hurrah-hurrah! You're starting to feel the taste of life with no cough, sniffles and with no watering eyes! Hurrah once again! Main thing is to think in a positive way and the illness will run away on its own. We've nothing to be afraid of, right? And on the next summer's corrida nothing can afraid us



So we're not afraid of this bulls. In the Spain next Summer. And by the way, we're going Greece this September! As I said, Hurrah once again! Oh, else, else, else I'm going Moscow this July and from Moscow with a friend of mine Lena for a couples of day we'll go to Nizhny Novgorod. It'll take just 4 hours by the train! Else I'm planning to visit Stavropol and Riga this August! So many plans matures during recovering =)

Heh, do you want ants bringing you money?



thus you'd better smoke grass! thus watch The Secret movie and it's second part Rabbit's Hole.

So, it's coming - the new life, totally different. I fill it. I'm afraid of it. I want it.
Now I'm a little bit older. Now I'm 21, totally of age. Let's change something. A range of thing to change a wide and varies between unmeaning things, like diet, schedule and so important as city, job or even BF. Time'll show. I'm sure that before this year ends I'll be at another level.

My wishes becoming true this week with suspicious speed.
Firstly my University studies and work seems to be vanished without a trace! And at least, my childish wish of snow and New Year's rush realized. For all citizen's astonishment New Year trees appeared in the city right in the start of November! Wow! New Year is comming!

Today I fully enjoyed the pretty bitter taste of life. Fine black tea with no sugar and grapefruit juice I never enjoyed made me feel colours and shadows of life more sharply today.

Was it infatuation with stranger, falling in love with ideal image of Child Harold I've meet due to tightness of this world, or it was just an ordinary lust? Both, unfortunately, and I can't define these felings, I'm not capable to separate desire from passion for him.

Linked arms and crossed legs watching Emir Kusturica's Zavet in the cinema, so warm hands, caressing... and indifference after... I refuse to perceive and apprehend this world. I needn't it at all.

Quote of the day:

"If not for the whole life so just for the memory..."

(c) Emir Kusturica

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All the Russian stuff was deleted from this blog and only English stayed.

Enjoy!

This momenet (I'm watching for air translation) entire epoch of New Russia is being buring on the Novodevichie cemetery in Moscow. That epoch was bloody and strange in many points of view, but simultiniously it was meaning and definitly necessary, necessary for me at least.

Boris Yeltsin is bured.

My Alex told me:

"Here! That's where I want to go - Toledo, Spain!"

Heh, no problem, we definitily will be there...

In the forest next to my mother's house anemones started to bloom. So affecting!

Cross-cultural communications.

Russian business is in developing now and more often it crosses countries borders searching for new clients, suppliers and partners. Goods, monetary and informational streams follows way of intensification and parallel with them young Russian businessmen called ‘yuppie’ (abbr. from Young Urban Professional) moves along the world because they had realized that internal market is too small. Foreign posting, negotiations with Americans (French, Italians, Japanese etc.) it’s your present reality when you are faced the problem what to dress for the guest-night in Rome or what to present for your providers in New-York.
Making business acquaintances abroad you ought to know any small items and be warned about every nuance of work etiquette of that country which representatives you want to have a deal with. And knowledge of corporative culture you’ve heard about but have only vague imagine because of your youth would work for you excellent.

At first, make out for yourself once and forever that when you in Rome do as the Romans do, like proverb says. Despite of your getting to used not to be late for work either for one minute and requiring similar from your subordinates, don’ t fly into a rage if your Italian partners had been late for 40 minutes – it’s a norm in Italy, as well as in Spain, Latin America or any of Arabian countries. If it seems that your partners are to much captious, if they investigate thoroughly every item, use numerous documents, handbooks, databases and other informational resources subconsciously waiting similar action from your side don’t censure them and not accuse in mistrusting. In Germany, Holland or Scandinavia it’s common as well too.
Most probably you have had that short experience of business communication which showed for you out all difficulties and delicacies of ability built this communication up rightly. The more reason the cross-cultural communication asks for neatness and deliberateness. Sometimes we can’t understand partners from others cities in our country, so what to say about people who live another continent.
Not to get in awful embarrassing situation which able to destroy all aims of many ages of work use some of classification adapted by specialists of international corporative communication. These classifications are union similar cultures of different countries in groups. Due this an understanding of peculiarities of one touched country getting easier: you needn’t every time open unknown book of impressive size.

First well-known and wide-using classification divides all corporative cultures for three parts:

― mono-active: Anglo-Saxons, German and Scandinavian people, also Russia and USA;
― poly-active: Romans, Latino-Americans, Arabian and Africans people;
― re-active: Eastern and South-Eastern Asians people (including Jupon, China, Taiwan and Singapore), also Turkish and Finish people.

Distinction of these types of cultures tracks down in four phases of business contact:

- gathering information about partner;
- planning of future common work;
- realization of work contact for achieving definite aim;
- taking a decision by business negotiations result.

Uncomplicated characteristics of each phases for all types of cultures you can read below. Having determined which group country you want to collaborate with belongs to, you can draw up the character of typical representative of this country. It'll help you avoid embarrassing moments in elementary situations.

Mono-active culture representative

Gathering information he uses objective resources of information (handbooks, documentary, data-bases), confirmed facts and numbers.
Plans are lined out logically with long measures; he try to avoid two parallel in time processes. Time of meeting is sharply planned.
Realizing business contact he turns to the discussing points of the matter immediately. Structure of dialog is question - answer (brief and clear). Never interrupts his collocutor and asks for similar. An optimal distance between interlocutors is 1.2 meters. High limit time of attention is 30 - 60 minutes.
Decision is taken by leader according to the opinions of the subordinates and in concord with the norms, rules and instructions working in the company.

Poly-active culture representative

Gathering information he uses informal resources (interviews, oral conversations, negotiations). He oriented toward informal dialog.
Plans are characterized with irrational using of time. Has contempt to schedules and instructions.
Realizing business contact he never starts discussing the points of the matter immediately. It follows only after pause filled with items, which haven't deal to work; this pause can continues from 15 minutes (at France) to half an hour (at Spain and Italy). Uses all set of gesture and mimicry in communication; very emotional. An optimal distances between interlocutors is 0.5 meters. High limit time of attention is 30 minutes.
Decision is autocratic and taken by high management.

Re-active culture representative

Gathering information he uses data-bases, printing documentary, however he is ready to listen. He is oriented toward peculiarities of another side.
In time of planning he adapts to deadlines discussed beforehand (or may be set by partner) to some extent.
Realizing business contact he starts discussing points of the matter after some ritual formalities lasting for a certain interval of time. Structure of conversation is exchange of monologues and consideration of items interposed by partner. Listen for the partner with a great attention. An optimal distance between interlocutors is 1.2 meters. High limit time of attention is 45 - 60 minutes.
Decision is paternalistic and taken by the most respected, qualified, skilled, experienced manager.

Your main task is not only get to know all peculiarities of your foreign partner, but adapted to it as much as you can and foresee for everything what's depends on you. Going to have a negotiations with German try to collect much more documentation, systematize it and think how to expound it compressed , consecutive and logically. Main is to set forth information so that requisite decision matured in minds of your partners in itself. Going to business lunch with Italians be rather worried about to know who had won the footballs match last week and what was a score (it's can seems to be absurd but for the start of conversation it can be really helpful). Don't make it appear that in business relation you cease to be an ordinary man: you still have grandma (mother, sister, wife, daughter, etc.) and hobby you tell about in prelude to conversation. For poly-active representatives it is not usual only, but almost compulsory.

It's supposed that you as professional yuppie as possess fluently one foreign language, more then for two languages. Nevertheless business communication asks for maximal exactness and clearness as well in your speech so in that your partner speak. Because of it there is no anything shameful in using service of translator in discussing crux of the matter. But in informal set-up like dinner, supper or coffee-break you can safely boast of your skills of polyglot.
Question of the dress is too worth your attention.

If Americans can allow themselves less formal style in Europe it's inadmissible. And by the way, in different countries there is different attitude toward somebody's striving for resemblance with home hosts. Somewhere it can bring to approval even if you make some mistakes, but somewhere to latent (or even public) condemnation. Don't follow method of imitation like parrot. It's always better keep balance of neutrality and be closer to classical style - it's admit all over the world.

And perhaps last farewell speech. Do not concern to cultural peculiarities thoughtlessly: your 10 minutes lateness or that you don't had listened your interlocutor can do much harm then unduly high sum of contract.

Anyway, dare and summit of the fame will be reached and frontiers will be unfastened!