Politics, culture, criticism, Ukraine and Russia, art, literature, war and poetic political gossip. The daybooks and adventures of an Eastern European-American aesthete, flâneur and dandy.
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On Péter Nádas/CIA Director In Moscow
My daybook for 2025-26
This week, I paid a brief visit to the home of my wealthy relations in Washington D.C. crashing with them while meeting with various sources and contacts in the Trump administration.
I adore them and they ado...
35th Anniversary Of Ukrainian Independence
(My Day Book Page 2023)
Today marks the 35th anniversary of Ukraine’s independence from the Soviet Union. What should be a happy occasion of commemoration sees the country continue its existential fight for survival. The Ukrainian s...
Belarus Uprising Anniversary/Ukraine, Iran And Israel
(My daybook page from Minsk in August 2020).
Last week marked the sixth anniversary of the Belarusian people rising up against strongman Alexander Lukashenko after he stole the August 9th, 2020 presidential election. The attempt to overthr...
Kyrgyzstan Love Diary
(My daybook page from Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan; Summer 2026)
Kyrgyzstan Diary
Bishkek August 2026
I have spent the last several weeks of this sweltering summer in my native Central Asia.
The Kyrgyz capital of Bishkek is somehow both...
The Atlanticist - Isolationist Smack Down
(Philosopher Curtis Yarvin boxing Ambassador John Herbst with Lev Polyakov as referee and my presiding as Emperor from the galleys. Image courtesy of Lev Polyakov)
Greetings to all from (my ancestral) Central Asia!
This disp...
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I am artist, diarist, critic, journalist wandering aesthete and flâneur. I write about art, Eastern European culture and politics. My daybook pages and drawings illustrate my writing.
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