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People who park their cars in glass houses shouldn't ... build them in Russia
Over at the hilarifying blog English Russia, they’re raving in their endearing, barely grammatical English about how new “multistory automated parking garages” are going to save the … more →
Eagle and the Bear
People who park their cars in glass houses shouldn't ... build them in Russia
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wrote 4 months ago: Over at the hilarifying blog English Russia, they’re raving in their endearing, barely grammat … more →
End of the water
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wrote 1 year ago: The water, in the Russian parlance, “ended” this morning as a result of a recent plunge in temperatu … more →
Russian winter vs. Petersburg rain
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wrote 1 year ago: St. Petersburg rain wins. We had over a week of beautiful snow cover, allowing us posers here in Ru … more →
Если есть в кармане пачка сигарет
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wrote 1 year ago: I’ve always been jealous of smokers. Standing around Joe Camel-cool, puckering your lips as y … more →
Back in Nizhny Novgorod
wrote 1 year ago: And it’s reminded me that the farther away from urban centers you get, the nicer people are. … more →
Hare Krishnas in the former capital of Bolshevism
wrote 1 year ago: So I was walking down the street in Moscow Monday when my new aquaintence Testa, an ethnic Indian no … more →
An American-bashing vacation in Moscow
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wrote 1 year ago: Katya brought along her camera to document the protesters' agenda (which turned out to be nebulo … more →
The Russian academe: "Empty words"
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wrote 1 year ago: I’ve already griped a bit about how those lucky Russian college kids get to hang out and skip … more →
Gas attack, round 2: Not the children!
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wrote 1 year ago: So you didn’t believe me when I wrote about being gassed out of a popular St. Petersburg bar? … more →
Ode to a Fly on a Cucumber
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wrote 1 year ago: A babushka examines the produce at Сенной Рынок (Sennoy Rinok). An open-air market isn’t the first f … more →
Be thankful for what you've got
wrote 1 year ago: I was recently getting to know Deniz, a young engineer who’s been crashing next door, in yet another … more →
Breakfast in Russia, to blaring beats
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wrote 1 year ago: Don’t you hate it when you’re listening to the radio and an especially annoying song comes on but th … more →
Bar-time gas attack
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wrote 1 year ago: The problem of clearing a nightspot out at bar time is apparently universal. It’s just that the Russ … more →
No change? Go home.
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wrote 1 year ago: Bureaucrat ... gggrrrrr ... In the USA, the most stringent requirements a store would ever demand of … more →
