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The route was planned to Moscow, to the "Chekhovskaya" metro station, and then to Pushkin Square, where the ceremony was to take place in the building of the Main Concert Hall "Pushkinsky."
A beige carpet with yellow edges, on which the domain "RU" was visible, stretched along the stairs up to the entrance. Security, metal detectors... it all didn't seem very serious...
There were quite a few people, as one might expect in a rather narrow entrance hall, where a few stands of some companies were also placed - thanks to our passports, me and Lyokha, who won the tickets together, managed to get a 1200 ruble discount each from Skylink on the purchase of a portable modem for laptops...
The free mulled wine, which was promised in the event announcements, wasn't flowing like a river, but we also managed to grab a glass of this hot, sweet-bitter drink... and meet another fan of "Heroes of Might and Magic," who also turned out to be our namesake :D
The seats turned out to be "very comfortable" - not the first row in the balcony, which was even further from the orchestra pit, and some crane from the TV company filming the event was constantly blocking the camera lens...
And finally, the ceremony began... it wasn't "The Oscars," but it was done in a similar style... Pomp, ministers of communications who don't even really know what's going on in the internet and therefore spout all sorts of nonsense. At one point, when the minister was talking about how things are in the cultural sphere of our internet, and he said that there's no increase in culture, but also no particular problems, I wanted to shout from the hall, "You're all clueless! We're being taken over by anime!"
One of the laureates turned out to be a health and wellness website... it's even hard to pronounce, WhoYOUgle, for which almost a quarter of the hall cheered in support, which made me and my friend just... well, we were speechless. And for "Heroes of Might and Magic," we and a few other people in the middle of the hall gave a more modest round of applause, and with the grace and sound of a dying swan, I let out a quiet "Hooray..."
Well, in general, if you search now, you can find photos and videos of much higher quality, but I'll post what I could film from my seat with my not-so-good camera) almost everything is at maximum zoom... Most of it looks like smudges or blurry figures, but here's Lyokha:
http://i049.radikal.ru/0911/22/4d5edfea8c87.jpg
and when we took a personal photo:
http://s50.radikal.ru/i130/0911/75/8c731d47716f.jpg
http://s43.radikal.ru/i101/0911/a3/b51d2fb2c6b7.jpg
And these are more or less decent photos of the "new?" group "Koma"... we didn't stay until they got to that state, which the girls contributed to...
http://i007.radikal.ru/0911/09/4d4211f29dcd.jpg
http://i081.radikal.ru/0911/96/b66a66aedfb0.jpg
http://s46.radikal.ru/i112/0911/aa/d585525b63fd.jpg
Ask about anything else, but the quality turned out to be extremely low...
And the last thing I managed to do was get the moderator's autograph; we didn't have time for the rest...
A beige carpet with yellow edges, on which the domain "RU" was visible, stretched along the stairs up to the entrance. Security, metal detectors... it all didn't seem very serious...
There were quite a few people, as one might expect in a rather narrow entrance hall, where a few stands of some companies were also placed - thanks to our passports, me and Lyokha, who won the tickets together, managed to get a 1200 ruble discount each from Skylink on the purchase of a portable modem for laptops...
The free mulled wine, which was promised in the event announcements, wasn't flowing like a river, but we also managed to grab a glass of this hot, sweet-bitter drink... and meet another fan of "Heroes of Might and Magic," who also turned out to be our namesake :D
The seats turned out to be "very comfortable" - not the first row in the balcony, which was even further from the orchestra pit, and some crane from the TV company filming the event was constantly blocking the camera lens...
And finally, the ceremony began... it wasn't "The Oscars," but it was done in a similar style... Pomp, ministers of communications who don't even really know what's going on in the internet and therefore spout all sorts of nonsense. At one point, when the minister was talking about how things are in the cultural sphere of our internet, and he said that there's no increase in culture, but also no particular problems, I wanted to shout from the hall, "You're all clueless! We're being taken over by anime!"
One of the laureates turned out to be a health and wellness website... it's even hard to pronounce, WhoYOUgle, for which almost a quarter of the hall cheered in support, which made me and my friend just... well, we were speechless. And for "Heroes of Might and Magic," we and a few other people in the middle of the hall gave a more modest round of applause, and with the grace and sound of a dying swan, I let out a quiet "Hooray..."
Well, in general, if you search now, you can find photos and videos of much higher quality, but I'll post what I could film from my seat with my not-so-good camera) almost everything is at maximum zoom... Most of it looks like smudges or blurry figures, but here's Lyokha:
http://i049.radikal.ru/0911/22/4d5edfea8c87.jpg
and when we took a personal photo:
http://s50.radikal.ru/i130/0911/75/8c731d47716f.jpg
http://s43.radikal.ru/i101/0911/a3/b51d2fb2c6b7.jpg
And these are more or less decent photos of the "new?" group "Koma"... we didn't stay until they got to that state, which the girls contributed to...
http://i007.radikal.ru/0911/09/4d4211f29dcd.jpg
http://i081.radikal.ru/0911/96/b66a66aedfb0.jpg
http://s46.radikal.ru/i112/0911/aa/d585525b63fd.jpg
Ask about anything else, but the quality turned out to be extremely low...
And the last thing I managed to do was get the moderator's autograph; we didn't have time for the rest...
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