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Why Having a Host Family is Great
Let me be clear, I live on my own by now. But a host family is a great resource (if I may treat them so instrumentally, for a moment) when you’re new to a city and, in general, a country. They c… more →
Red Inklings
Argentina Leaders Fight
emptysuit wrote 1 hour ago: Click On Links: Health Clinic Fight City Councilmen Fighting Black People Don’t Like Black Conservat … more →
Harold Estes To Obama: Do Your Job, SON!
emptysuit wrote 2 days ago: On her Facebook page Sunday night, Sarah Palin posted a letter from a 95-year-old veteran named Haro … more →
Russia Train Crash Bomb Killed 26
emptysuit wrote 4 days ago: A powerful homemade bomb sent a high-speed Moscow-to-St. Petersburg train careening off its tracks k … more →
Castle of the Week, Olavinlinna, Finland
heraldictimes wrote 2 weeks ago: Olavinlinna (The Castle of St. Olaf) was founded in 1475. It originally had five towers, but three o … more →
Hanseattic Days ov Nu Time in Novgorod
max425 wrote 5 months ago: On 19 – 21 June 2009, the Internattional Hanseattic Days ov Nu Time took place in Novgorod. It wos a … more →
Slavs and Slaves
kosherhooks wrote 6 months ago: (From Chapter 18, “Kosher Hooks” by S.I. Fishgal, http://stores.lulu.com/fishgal) “In Russian, … more →
Blaise Cendrars, Prose du Transsibérien. "En ce temps-là, j'étais en mon adolescence..."
Loup Kibiloki wrote 7 months ago: La Prose du Transsibérien et de la petite Jehanne de France de Blaise Cendrars. 1913. Texte complet. … more →
Why Having a Host Family is Great
redinklings wrote 8 months ago: Let me be clear, I live on my own by now. But a host family is a great resource (if I may treat them … more →
Posing as a Russian Polar Bear
redinklings wrote 9 months ago: Article in "New Novgorodian Newspaper" about winter swimming … more →
Birthday Suit=Swim Suit?
redinklings wrote 10 months ago: I celebrated my birthday on Monday, January 19, which coincides with the Russian Orthodox holiday Кр … more →
Novgorod
asgerd wrote 11 months ago: A document dated 1192 indicates that Novgorod was trading with Western Europe by that date. Some te … more →
Blog Resurrected
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redinklings wrote 1 year ago: Hi all, I’ve resurrected this blog, after an absence of several months. The short story: I got … more →
Who founded Russia?
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axinia wrote 1 year ago: It is an intesting part of the Russian history and apparently not very popular for political reasons … more →
Nizhniy Novgorod
ivailen wrote 1 year ago: When you travel to Russia, you can travel to Moscow or to go deeper, to see its more ancient cities, … more →
The Kremlin Replaced an Inefficient Governor with an Equally Efficient One
Russia Profile wrote 1 year ago: The Novgorod region in the northwest of Russia has seen some changes since Mikhail Prusak, who had r … more →
The Medieval Christian Origins of Western Democracy: Part 2
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beastrabban wrote 1 year ago: In the first part of this essay discussing the medieval Christian contribution to the rise of democr … more →
The Medieval Christian Contribution to Western Democracy: Part One
beastrabban wrote 1 year ago: The Middle Ages aren’t a period people would normally associate with democracy. This was, after all, … more →
Convince yourself that everything is all right, 'cause it already is.
Jess wrote 2 years ago: I’m in London right now visiting Maita, but the summary of the Russia trip needed to come out. … more →
