august

Posted on Aug. 23, 2006 at 10:06 - Post Comment

August always was a very hard month for the new Russia. Lots of catastrophies, deaths, terrorists attacks and other unhappy events took place in august. Including also economical disaster like default of  1998. This august promised to be different. Only few days ago i told my mom that it was august and nothing bad happened. Her words were "august is not over yet".
And really it is not over. Right after the blasts on the Moscow market (which were not terrorists' attack happily - wow... people were killed and we say that happily it were not terrorists, in what a dangerous and scary world we live), so the next day after that there was  a plane crash. 170 people were killed, 45 children (6 of then younger than 2 years old). We are told that it is the most safe transport. According to statistics it is really so, but it is always very sad when something like this happens. I know that may be more than 170 people die in russia every day, and sure there are children among them.... but still it always makes me cry when i watch news about airplane crash or think about people who were killed and their relatives who were waiting for them to come back  home in a few hours and who will never again see the people they love. I cant work normally today because i am thnking about it all the time - may be i am just too emotional.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/5276784.stm

And like my mom said "august is still not over"...

August...

Posted by Anonymous on Aug. 26, 2006 at 02:18-Link

Fire destroys St Petersburg cathedral domes...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060825/ts_nm/russia_fire_dc