Palex Ltd.

This post is about our North trip: two directors, their friends, my sister and me were absolutely ready for adventures in the first really warm weekend (it was only -12°C). Long New Year holidays brought to my head an idea to visit Narym hot springs (somewhere between Parabel and Narym) to recover. Read more…

Summer has gone away, and only cheerfully-yellow canned zucchinis remind us of warm sunbeams. If you have never tried food preservation — squash or zucchini caviar is the best thing to start with: it’s quite cheap to spoil, easy to prepare and doesn’t take too much time. Zucchini and squash dishes are not only tasty and low-calorie, but also contain vitamines and microelements important for our health. 

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25 hours spent in a Byelorussian train going from Irkutsk to Minsk, and we’re heading to Yekaterinburg International airport. Our destination is Angelo Hotel. My mind is felt with thoughts: what’s the conference is going to be like? will it be a waste of time? why do we need it at all, we almost don’t work in the Russian market?
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Позади 25 часов в вагоне белорусского поезда Иркутск — Минск, и мы едем в такси по направлению к Международному аэропорту Екатеринбурга. Наша цель — отель Angelo. В голове проносятся мысли: что нас ждет на конференции? не будет ли это пустой тратой времени? зачем нам вообще это надо, ведь мы почти не работаем на российском рынке?
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Не знаю, как вы, а я грибы полюбила не сразу. Здесь, как оказалось, главное уметь правильно готовить.

Если в детстве один их вид в жареном или вареном виде вызывал отвращение, вплоть до желудочных колик, а поедание сводилось к пытке, то затем маринование грибов стало моим увлечением.

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Russia is an agricultural country. Though official statistics says agriculture adds only a small part to Russia’s GDP, I’m going to prove the opposite.
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There are lots of things being discussed online every day, and the news are getting “curioser and curioser”. Today was not an exception. A lot of resources have reported one of the torrent trackers to buy a Russian village, and the most interesting thing for us was that the village is in Tomsk region (and Palex is located in Tomsk, in case you’re not aware of the fact). There are a lot of pictures on the Net at the moment that show the village Gar renamed after TorrentReactor, which in fact anyone can easily do in any image editor. And there are indeed some news saying that local authorities do not confirm this information. So far, no one knows for sure.
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It was Viktor Tsoy’s birthday yesterday. I don’t think this name says something to foreigners, and absolutely not sure they would like the music. But I was really pleased yesterday to discover that Yandex legally provides all his records to listen for free (the menu and the songs indeed are in Russian).
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It was on Saturday, June 12. And because it was Saturday, we have one more day off on Monday.

I really had to check Wikipedia about why it is June 12, and it said that the government signed the declaration of independence on that day. It was back in 1990, and it was the independence of the USSR. So much has happened since that that I totally forgot it.
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Yandex, a Russian Internet search engine, nicely allows you to search your terms only in the domains located in the same area as you. And my colleagues kept asking why it always suggests us to search in Ivanovo while we are in Tomsk, which is way too far from Ivanovo. And last time I used Yandex I occasionally noticed why:
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