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The fall-2026 conference marathon is in full swing, and this is coming to you (not quite) live from our Russian++ partner conference in Guangzhou, China. It’s all as per: ~100 key partners representing 90+ companies from 30+ cities. Meetings, hugs, presentations, and technical and commercial sessions – all in a day’s work! And here we […]

My tales about our 10-day hike along the Karavshin mountain trail have all been shipped, but, as they say, “not so fast”… For next up was part-two of our action-packed summer vacation, which saw us teleported northeast from Kyrgyzstan’s Pamir-Alay to the Sayan Mountains. Plan: rafting down the Oka River. Result (spoiler): it was brief […]

Our Karavshin mountain trek in the Pamir-Alay was coming to an end, or rather – coming back to the beginning, for we started and finished at the same point, having completed a big loop. And so the final day of our walk/trek/journey/hike/tough hike/grueling expedition – take your pick – had come. My pick: tough hike […]

The denouement of our Pamir-Alay trek along the Karavshin route was the hike up to the foot of Mount/Peak Ak-Suu. Wonderful and unforgettable, I highly recommend it to absolutely everyone! A short walk slightly uphill, then a bit of a scramble over some moraine boulders, then a just-as-easy stroll along the crest of the ridge: […]

A new day dawned in the Karavshin valley in Kyrgyzstan. By morning the weather had once again turned so fine that… the joy of being alive was boundless – and infinitely so! The only thing taking the edge off was that, yet again, we had to pull off some physical endurance feats that simply don’t […]

September and the rest of fall are once again seeing me get caught up in a whirlwind of business trips – when I’ll have no time at all for getting on with my tales from the Karavshin and Oka River side. So let me crack on during these here few days in the office between […]