My name is Rinat Ibragimov (born in 1959). I come from Moscow. I graduated from Moscow Institute of Management. I am willing to improve my English with a help from my friends on Italki.com. I am learning English at Moscow Public Education Centre using the New Headway method.
My hobbies are listening to music, live concerts, clubs, sports on TV (soccer, hockey, and the Olympic Games), the Russian theatre, learning English, and exhibitions (art, photographs, and avant-garde). I have been out of politics and religion all my life. I am a never-smoker.
I am not fond of sport very much now, but I like ice-skating. My favorite sport teams are the German national soccer team, FC Munich Bayern, Liverpool FC, Montréal Canadiens, the Soviet / Russian hockey national team and CSKA (all kinds of sports). Favorite sportsmen are V. Kharlamov, V. Tretiak, A. Firsov, A. Maltsev, G. Lafleur, B. Hull, W. Gretzki, M. Jordan, G. Müller, F. Beckenbauer, Jü. Klinsmann, V. Kolotov, and V. Astapovsky.
I am a rock music fan. I have got about 4000 LP, CD, and DVD albums. I have been collecting my collection since 1976. Some favorite bands and singers of mine are Beatles, John Lennon, Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, Pink Floyd, Grateful Dead, Weather Report, Chicago, Muddy Waters, Guess Who, Living Blues, Can, Amon Düül II, Omega, Locomotiv GT, Bijelo Dugme, SBB, Czesław Niemen, Blue Effect, and Jazz Q Praha. I am a founder and owner of a site Rock from Eastern Europe [eerock.narod.ru].
Unfortunately, I am a lazy book reader. My favorite writers are A. Platonov, M. Bulgakov, F. Kafka, V. Nabokov, and K. Čapek.
I dislike smoking, wars, TV, politics and politicians, any kinds of violence, rude and stupid people, and crazy sport fans.
I like well-educated people, my friends, all seasons of a year, the blue sky, rivers, forests, meadows, parks, sport arenas and my hometown.
I would be happy to help you with Russian.
