User:Juzeris

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lvŠim lietotājam latviešu valoda ir dzimtā valoda.

en-3This user can contribute with an advanced level of English.

et-2See kasutaja suudab eesti keeles kaastööd teha keskmisel tasemel.

ru-2Этот участник неплохо знает русский язык.

de-2Dieser Benutzer hat fortgeschrittene Deutschkenntnisse.

fr-2Cet utilisateur peut contribuer avec un niveau intermédiaire en français.

lb-1Dëse Benotzer ka mat Grondkenntnisser vun der Lëtzebuerger Sprooch zum Projet bäidroen.

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My background is varied professional experience in the translation industry. Originally from Latvia, I have also lived in Estonia and elsewhere in Europe for several years and accordingly I speak Latvian, English, Russian, conversational Estonian and some German and French.

On Wikipedia, I have contributed mostly to Latvian Wikipedia where I used to be an admin from 2005 until 2012 when gave up my role voluntarily and relinquished the admin rights. See also my accounts on Meta and English Wiktionary.

My bookmarks

Here are some articles I have found in Wikipedia. I used to add them to my watchlist but it has grown just too much to be able to follow and differentiate between the stuff that really needs following and simply great articles that most possibly are already watched by knowledgeable Wikipedians.

Some of these articles simply crave for attention, others are a great read, and for some of them I have no idea why I've listed them. :)

This list is not necessarily alphabetised or otherwise prioritised but it should be. Or maybe it is. Nor this list should be regarded as an accurate reflection of my world view or interests. This is merely a fraction of it. Or maybe it isn't related to me at all.

I really hope this doesn't end up being similar in size to Special:Allpages...

Movies	Books	Language	Music	Web
Amélie Fight Club Four Rooms Groundhog Day Knockin' On Heaven's Door Natalie Portman O Brother, Where Art Thou? Oksana Akinshina Trainspotting Sergei Bodrov Jr. Sergei Eisenstein	book collecting dictionary Umberto Eco Foucault's Pendulum George Orwell The Good Soldier Švejk Henryk Sienkiewicz Hundarna i Riga Lullaby Nineteen Eighty-Four Chuck Palahniuk Victor Pelevin The Trial by Kafka Grigore Vieru	computer-assisted translation copy editing French language French phrases Internet slang Latin phrases machine translation netiquette online newspaper archives Russian joke shibboleth stop words translation relay vittu volapuk encoding Võro language of Estonia zero article zeugma язык падонков	BBC Radio David Bowie Depeche Mode Gotan Project Keane Lemon Jelly Moby Smells Like Teen Spirit Underworld	Badger Badger Badger Eternal September Internet slang interwiki language order META refresh MMOGs netiquette shipping webmaster Wikipedia essays Wikipedia Signpost Wikipedia Tools: Navigation popups
History	Leisure	Urban stuff	Misc.	No bookmark, just stress
Ancient Rome Baltic way Eternal September Hanseatic League Ivan Susanin entities that have issued postage stamps Potemkin village Soviet Union	auto racing Critical Mass Demolition derby (btw, Demolition Derby was merged into it but not entirely) massage meme procrastination Seinfeld Simpsons, The sleep disorder Slinky train spotting	city elevator surfing residential area road junction thirteenth floor traffic calming urban studies and planning	Anthelia, a deleted article on a micronation banana republic corna déjà vu eye contact Funniest Joke in the World here human-computer interaction indigenous peoples Moritz Cantor rectory subculture urban legend useful idiot	Laid back

Other stuff

Picture of the day

Raising a Flag over the Reichstag (Russian: Знамя Победы над Рейхстагом, romanized: Znamya Pobedy nad Reykhstagom, lit. 'Victory Banner over the Reichstag') is an iconic World War II photograph, taken during the Battle of Berlin on 2 May 1945 by Yevgeny Khaldei. The photograph was reprinted in thousands of publications and came to be regarded around the world as one of the most significant and recognizable images of World War II, but, owing to the secrecy of Soviet media, both the identity of photographer and the identities of the men in the picture were often disputed.

The Reichstag was seen as symbolic of, and at the heart of, Nazi Germany. It was arguably the most symbolic target in Berlin. After its capture on 2 May 1945, Khaldei scaled the now pacified Reichstag to take a picture. He was carrying with him a large flag, sewn from three tablecloths for this very purpose, by his uncle. The official story would later be that two hand-picked soldiers, Meliton Kantaria (Georgian) and Mikhail Yegorov (Russian), raised the Soviet flag over the Reichstag, However, according to Khaldei himself, when he arrived at the Reichstag, he simply asked the soldiers who happened to be passing by to help with the staging of the photoshoot; the one who was attaching the flag was 18-year-old Private Kovalev from Burlin, Kazakhstan; the two others were Abdulkhakim Ismailov from Dagestan and Leonid Gorychev (also mentioned as Aleksei Goryachev) from Minsk.Photograph credit: Yevgeny Khaldei for TASS; restored by Adam Cuerden

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