This post comes to you live from the Caucasus Build Expo at which we have a stand and a wireless connection.
Today is a holiday because of the election, and most of the visitors to our Expo are fathers bringing their children. So we are not having many customers interested in our business. But it has been interesting for us to see some of the building products on sale, most of them imported, from Turkey and Russia.
There is no air conditioning in our pavilion and no cafe as anticipated, so we are not very well prepared, or very comfortable.
There is not much news on the election. One of our staff was put off by the long queues at the polling station just round the corner from the Expo, so we gave her time off to vote when it got too boring. Nothing much was happening on the election reports on the internet either.
Another of my office staff says that their relative was asked which way he was going to vote by his employer. They were both shocked. Other stories are going round about employers requiring passport numbers for people's relatives (presumably so their votes can be checked) Back to Soviet days, it seems.
Actually can you imagine anyone would actually bother checking an employee's relatives' voting habits these days? The boredom of looking through the voting lists? I guess the threat is enough intimidation. You could probably get away with making up a number or just giving one or two digits wrong like a typo.
Today is a holiday because of the election, and most of the visitors to our Expo are fathers bringing their children. So we are not having many customers interested in our business. But it has been interesting for us to see some of the building products on sale, most of them imported, from Turkey and Russia.
There is no air conditioning in our pavilion and no cafe as anticipated, so we are not very well prepared, or very comfortable.
There is not much news on the election. One of our staff was put off by the long queues at the polling station just round the corner from the Expo, so we gave her time off to vote when it got too boring. Nothing much was happening on the election reports on the internet either.
Another of my office staff says that their relative was asked which way he was going to vote by his employer. They were both shocked. Other stories are going round about employers requiring passport numbers for people's relatives (presumably so their votes can be checked) Back to Soviet days, it seems.
Actually can you imagine anyone would actually bother checking an employee's relatives' voting habits these days? The boredom of looking through the voting lists? I guess the threat is enough intimidation. You could probably get away with making up a number or just giving one or two digits wrong like a typo.
