Russian Visas
The hardest part about your trip: the VISA! June 8, 1999 The Moscow Times Dante’s Inferno in Visa Line By Daisy Sindelar Anyone who has ever wasted time wondering what form his or her eternal damnation might take has obviously never stood in a Russian visa line. These lines appear…
Read MoreEta Notebook Batteria, Durak!
The joys of finding computer parts in Russia My Office Ooo vacuume tubes! Its about that time. My laptop battery is so old and so used, that it is dying a slow and painful death. I cannot turn on my laptop without AC power anymore, and then when I do…
Read MoreFidelity is Not a Brokerage
Are you more a man with her than your wife and kids? This past week I returned to Moscow, hanging with Lidia while she studied for her ACCA accounting exams. The whole time I’ve been trying to figure out what to write about since I pretty much wrote myself out…
Read MoreSoviet Suburban Living
I was hoping to escape suburbia when I left the States! Oh the variety! See any similarities? What a view! And I’ve been here! But never here. I’ve always hated the suburbs. I spent too many years living in the suburbs of a small city in Florida to ever want…
Read MoreDoes Yalta Have Beaches?
A true Workers’ Paradise There is a look Russians get in their eyes when you say the word “Yalta.” A far away look of remembrance and of a time long lost. They always brighten up and start in about how grand it really was back in the Soviet days. Even…
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