Theresa Tries to Russify
I love friends who visit! Wayan has asked me to write something of my impression of Moscow for this website. My very first thoughts included words like cold, dreary, gray, and gloomy. This was all from the taxi ride into town from the airport. Everyone, with very few exceptions, was…
Read MoreI Go to Gay Clubs Worldwide
Swining with the best of the CIS! No matter where you are in the world, if you want the best a city’s nightlife has to offer, head to the gay clubs! I learned this maxim first in University, where my housemate, Deans, and I would go to “The Club.” See…
Read MoreI Hide on Women’s Day
Unlike in America, Women’s Day in Russia is a national holiday! Today, Monday, I do not work. In fact, no one in Russia is working today if they can help it. Today is a national holiday, because yesterday was Women’s Day. This is the Russian equivalent of Mother’s Day and…
Read MoreNew & Shiny: Nizhny Novgorod
The ‘Lower’ Novgorod working it like Moscow! March 8 AFP via Johnson’s Russia List Russian city is bright spot amid the gloom NIZHNY-NOVGOROD, Russia, – The Russian region of Nizhny- Novgorod, 450 kilometres (275 miles) southeast of Moscow, is one of the few bright spots in the country’s economy, continuing…
Read MorePsst! Wanna job in Moscow?
Why work? It is way more fun to play! Getting a job in Russia is very simple. Just get off the plane, answer your cell phone and pick your dream job, complete with penthouse suite, driver, cook, maid, and obscene salary. Nutting to it if you are fluently bi-lingual, intimately…
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