Manly 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’…
Read MoreThe Zen of the Line
Some days it actually pays to wait in line I took the hydrofoil instead And this is an orderly line The day before I left I my journey along the Volga River cities, my friend Dave asked me how I felt to be traveling all the time. I know his…
Read MoreBut He Went by the Name of Lenin
A visit to beginning of it all: Lenin’s home town Lenin in his Red Period Hide from the storm in a cafe At least the tramvai is close In the late 1800’s, a young man came into the world by the name of Vladimir Ilich Ulyanov in the town of…
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