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Benevolent dictator

Born to rule and dictate styles, customs and manners.

Advanced Degree

November'99 - December'01 (Ukraine and Scotland)
Post-graduate work in environmental aspects of Energy Production.
Conducted feasibility studies and investigated environmental problems of nuclear power, hydroelectric power, and alternative energy sources in the Ukraine. (GPA - 4.0 on scale 4.0)

1991 -1993
MBA

1987 - 1991
Bachelor Degree of Science in Civil Engineering, minor Hotel Management

Enjoy sports, running, swimming, hiking, table tennis, hunting.

Meditation.

Love borzoi and hunting dogs. Know pretty much everything from training, feeding, hunting.

Love to cook for family and friends.

Professional at French and Russian cuisine. Can cook selected Indian, Thai, Italian, Brazilian food. Like to experiment. Most favorite food is Thai.

Tarot, Astrology, and the kind. Personality testing, designing questionnaires. Business diagnostics and consulting.

Films

Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels by Guy Ritchie
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120735/

Run Lola Run (original German title Lola rennt) by Tom Tykwer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Run_Lola_Run

The Producers 1968
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063462/

Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring by Kim Ki-duk
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0374546/

Swimming with Sharks by George Huang with Kevin Spacey and Frank Whaley
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114594/

Films about samurai - Zatoichi by Shintaro Katsu, Drunken Master, selected films by Takeshi Kitano

Love Actually by Richard Curtis
http://www.loveactually.com/

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street with Johnny Depp
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0408236/

Match Point by Woody Allen
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0416320/

Battle Royale by Koushun Takami
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_Royale

Once Upon a Time in Mexico by Robert Rodriguez

Kill Bill: Vol. 2, by Quentin Tarantino and toehr films with Uma Thurman
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0378194/

Catch Me if You Can

TV/Shows - Monty Python, Friends, X-files, Lock, Stock... and Two Smoking Barrels

4 Ad Rock
Cocteau Twins, This Mortal coil, Dead Can Dance, Lisa Gerrard (The Mirror Pool)

Doom Metal
Crematory, Funeral, Lake of tears, Paradise Lost, Sentenced

Ethnic
Gypsy music, Bob Dylan, Celtic Folk, Cochabamba, In Extrema, Katsuya Yokoyama, Loreena McKennett

Gothic
Lacrimosa, Therion, Cinderella Effect, 69 eyes, Dark Princess, Elend, Angiza & Haggard, Moonspell, My Dying Bride

New Age
Kitaro, Oliver Shanti, Cafe Del Mar, Vangeles, Enio Marricone, Andreas Vollenweider, Enigma, ENO, Expositions in the blue sky, G.E.N.E., Jarre, Kate Bush, Taste Zen in tea

Other Music:
Beatles, Doors, Scorpions, Dire Straits, Ramstein, Black Sabbath, Limp Bizkit, Nirvana, David Bowie, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Michael Jackson.

"Journey to the West", Chinese legend

"The Hobbit" by J.R.R. Tolkien and all his writings,

"Witches Abroad", "Equal Rites", "The Wee Free Men", The Colour of Magic, "The Witches Trilogy" by Terry Pratchett

Everything my Mark Twain including his speeches

All kinds of stories of Hodzha Nasreddin who is the hero of the Central Asian folklore

The Iron Flute by Nyogen Senzaki, Ruth Strout McCandless

1001 nights

Zen Flesh, Zen Bones: A Collection of Zen and Pre-Zen Writings by Paul Reps

"The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe" by C.S. Lewis

Some books by Conan Doyle

"Mermaid" and other tales by Hans Christian Andersen

"Alice in Wonderland" by Lewis Carroll