2011: Wow! I’m a mom!
Starting a new life-long position! 🙂 That’s gonna be interesting…
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2010: Time Management Courses | Russobit-M
How to Take a Time Management Course When You Have No Time at All. Working at Russobit-M, with all the crunches, projects, and deadlines. And then the company offers — time management courses. Seriously. With a certificate and everything. The…
2010: GamePitStop | The online store that the three of us made
2010: At “Russobit-M”, we aimed for something new for the Russian gaming market: to create our own online store, GamePitStop. Imagine: Steam didn’t exist yet. People went to electronics stores or (scary to remember) to markets for discs! (Millennials might…
2007: Russobit-M | How I Became the “Do-Everything” Manager
October 2007. I get an invitation to join a major international group — Russobit-M. Founded in 1999 as part of the “Russobit” Concern, and by 2008 it was already a powerful holding, Bestway group, together with GFI and Play Ten Interactive. Serious…
2007: State University of Management | Marketing
Curtains. The last bells have rung, the thesis is defended, and five years at the State University of Management are officially in my personal archive and etched into my background. It was awesome. Honestly? When I applied for “Marketing” in 2002,…
2007: The Golden Age of the GameDev Boom | Akella Didn’t Miss
February 2007. Four months until my diploma. I hadn’t even started it. What to do? Right, look for a job.And I got hired! Straight into a major player in the GameDev industry of that time — Akella. An ultra-cool loft…
2002: How a Straight-A Student and I Studied the British Without the Internet | Lingua-2002
2002. The IV Moscow “Lingua” Conference in Foreign Languages. Registration done. And then — the real (almost) detective scientific work began. My friend (a gold medalist, by the way, proud of her!) and I decided on a research project: to…
1999: 14 Years Old, Canterbury, and one English Punk | Intermediate Level English
My First International Certificate 1999. I’m 14. A schoolgirl from Russia, holding a certificate from Srafford House School of English, Canterbury. Level — Intermediate. For those who remember the 90s, this was like a “ready for space” badge. My level…