I wanted to Blog an email I sent today to give someone some recognition - here is their MVP profile incase you are interested. https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/profile=DA8DDE1A-A670-44F3-BADE-B0A1825BFA84
Gaidar ,
I want to share my heart warmed thanks and express my sincere gratitude to you for helping Anka through what can only be described as an exceptionally traumatic experience in Moscow.
Having your passport, train tickets and flight tickets stolen 20 minutes before all your 50+ customers get on board a night train can be exceptionally stressful - mix this with the fact you are in a foreign country , don't speak the language and everyone you know in the country is getting on a train - was very traumatic for Anka.
However she was not alone. You selflessly volunteered to help her and stayed behind while the rest of her customers carried on from Moscow to St. Petersburg managed by Alexander and myself.
I spoke to Anka every day, several times a day for the next 4 days whilst you helped her at the Police station, the Croatian Embassy, back to the Police station and then the Embassy and then the Airport and again back to the Police station until eventually she managed to get on a flight to Zagreb direct from Moscow.
Anka told me she will remember Moscow as a “great adventure” and will remember Russia as a country where she “met a friend”. For me, it is not the excellent MVP open day, which brought 50+ people from over 10 countries together nor the fact that Anka's passport was stolen that will embed Moscow in my mind forever - it will be the kind, gracious and humble MVP who for me epitomises the MVP program. You helped a person in need by using your knowledge, time and experience.
For that I will always be truly grateful and I wanted you to be formally recognised by Microsoft and the MVP program for your kind actions.
Karen
Please note: you can be pick pocketed anywhere and I strongly recommend people go to Russia as it is very beautiful place - it has amazing food, stunning history with awesome buildings and just amazing infrastructure ( imagine a 7 laned road in the centre of town - not a motorway but the centre of town - that is 14 lanes !!! ).