Vadim, I am pretty sure I saw you there a few times, sometimes around 1994
Small world.
Dima Medvedenko was my good buddy and a twin for a few month, during our Supe training. I know/met personally almost every person mentioned so far. Remember Andrey Makarenko/Makarov -Sup/DofT, Lada's husband at the time, I think? He was the first Russian SO member. Good times. Thanks for this thread, Yulia/Vadim and everyone else.
That's cool, Stat! We seem to have some past in common. Love that!
Were you in Kopenhagen with Dima?
Andrey Makarov. Yes! - He was the first SO member in Russia.
He, in addition to joining the SO, donated his old (?) home furniture to SO. We were happy to have LRH books in the bookcases freely donated by Andrey.
He is still in SO. He is Professional ("Fully-Hatted") Registrar. Up to recent times he was my friend in social networks. When he, somehow, sniffed about my changed attitude to Scn, he immediately disconnected (didn't even ask questions). His current wife (Anna Makarova, ED ABLE EU (?), who was my long-time friend as well, has done the same as Andrey at the same time).
Lada Pischugina (now Lada Pasha) was one of the reasons I wanted to join the SO. She was just drop-dead gorgeous, and - such affectionate. (Well, she still is). ( I was too slow to hit it with her, but I know now from her that we could make a great couple with her back then)
She left the SO when I was in LA (to my disappointment). She, after having divorced, married Eugene Pasha. They left together.
In 2008 Lada joined the SO again (even tried to get me to re-join).. She thought that there was nothing worthwhile doing in the "wog world" and signed up with AOSH EU.
After EPF, she returned home (to her husband, who wouldn't join right after her as she intended, and they both had some mortgage obligations after all)
I might have more of the data on some people you are interested about. Feel free to ask. I'll try to answer (if/what I know).