Igor Balashov

When working in Italy I figured out an interesting thing about Italians: despite their illusive warmness they can be quite hard to get along with. They’ve got their unique values which they preserve from generation to generation. It’s quite ok for them to regularly meet and to accidentally communicate, but they seem to be reluctant to meet daily. So you can guess that I am back to Russia as I miss some of the local mess.

No doubt I can be called a patriot. I like to be in sympathy with my country, I wish it were better, I wish we had more order and we got real economy in the end, where a lot of people would be able to find themselves a use.

I am not sure I understand people reckoning they do not love their native country. Anyway these must be some freaks that were born to the wrong place.

It’s not true that Russians are like the laziest. Let’s take the Mediterranean where people million times as lazier as we are!

You must watch out so that your work does not swallow you, that really matters. If you don’t like the place you take, just take a break or leave. Otherwise you’ll feel your work to be swallowing you, which will no doubt suppress you in the end.

Our economy is rather a service field than some manufacturing machine.
A person is not meant to constantly be happy and smile whatever happens, he’ll be taken much of a freak then. Western people smile more as they’ve got more stable routine.

I can admit that there can be nobody at the wheel of a plane flying for some long destinations. And we may not even guess about the option. They have autopilot there. It’s only today that we learn from the news that pilots do kiss the cup “at the wheel”. You can guess that they need to leave their cock pit once they’ve taken a drink.

It’s possible to balance your work and private life in megalopolis. You just need to be on the same wavelength with a person, to devote time to him or her, forgive one more often and esteem one more deep. I mean in fact private life and work are not interdependent at all.

Once Russians set an object, they usually tend to gain it after all.

I wouldn’t advise young people to get married before they are 30. One is to be mentally prepared for this issue, moreover men tend to grow up more slowly than women.

If adults want to become children again? I guess so. It’s like when I am with my daughter I feel like becoming closer to her in an age aspect and to perceive her in a more complete way.

Unfortunately imported products do not take roots in our country, and the reason is that our specialists can not adhere the technological rules. If you take Russian Danon and that from France you’ll see the difference.

Provided Perrier water were packed in Tetra Pak, that would not be that popular in Horeca and Retail sphere. I mean glass is supposed to be an attribute of some premium class.