A Subaka Says What?
A exploration of the differences in Russian and America animal sounds Having a chat with Margo Saturday, as Lidia and I were driving to her dacha, I stuck my head out her window and started barking at a dog (subaka) in the car beside us. As your intelligent, verbally oriented…
Read MoreSoviet Swimming
A country of lakes & rivers, and Russians can’t swim 15 July, 1999 Going Swimming By Nick Everything here is the same. No new crisis’s, plenty of food and very few terrorist bombings. The weather is extremely hot and probably set a heat record. Many people drowned each weekend in…
Read MoreManly Russian Men
Why do you think all the Russian women want American husbands? There is a Peace Corps joke about the difference between the Russian men and women. When (not if) the male PCV’s would run out of the dozen condoms that the Peace Corps issued to us, they could simply ask…
Read MoreAnd Peter is a Distant Second
Like St Petersburg can compare to Massive Moscow! Kazan Cathedral Time for a Taste Test! You find a remonted window! Laura looking into the future There are many city rivalries in this world, New York vs. Los Angeles, London vs. Paris, Singapore vs. Hong Kong, but none I find as…
Read MoreInvest in Russia?!
You’ll have better luck at the casinos! December 29, 1998 Associated Press Foreign Investment in Russia Drops MOSCOW — Direct foreign investment in Russia plummeted this year to $2 billion, half its level in 1997, an Economics Ministry official said Tuesday, quoted by a news agency. The numbers reflected investors’…
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