Career diplomat, PhD researcher, humanitarian photographer, teacher of international politics and world-class traveler

Politics, photography, traveling, history, literature, hiking, skiing

Jazz (Billie Holiday, Miles Davis, Charlie Parker), Indie Rock (Radiohead, Franz Ferdinand, Muse, Placebo), Trip Hop (Portishead, Massive Attack), Eletrotango (Gotan Project, Tanghetto, Narcotango), solo singers (Azam Ali, Amy Winehouse, Norah Jones, Fiona Apple), Brazilian (Caetano Veloso, Gilberto Gil, Zeca Baleiro), Classical (Rachmaninoff, Dvorak, Mahler) and so on

Nolan, Kubrick, Tarantino, Zyvagyntsev, Fellini and Woody Allen. Film noir. Monty Python.

History, politics and international relations (almost everything), travel literature (Kapuscinski, Thubron, Kaplan, Newby, P. L. Fermor), modern literature (Saramago, Kafka, Borges, Camus, Márquez, Hemingway), thick Russian prose (Dostoevsky and Alexievich in particular), some Nietzsche for cloudy days, diplomatic memoirs, crime/espionage novels

Game of Thrones, The Americans, The Borgias, The Man in the High Castle, Marco Polo, Narcos, Vikings, House of Cards, Breaking Bad

"There are many worlds. Each is different. Each is important. And one must learn with them, because these other worlds, these other cultures, are mirrors in which we can see ourselves, thanks to which we understand ourselves better - for we cannot define our own identity until having confronted that of others, as comparison." (R. Kapuscinski, "Travels with Herodotus")