Internet Cafes Are Everywhere
Those bits and bytes are everywhere! Today I am in Toglatti, Russia’s version of Detroit, where the AvtoVaz factory produces over 50% of the cars sold in Russia. Tomorrow I am to leave for the birthplace of Lenin, Olyanysk, but I am a little sad. After searching for the last…
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Odd, the battle for Stalingrad was fought in Volgagrad! Ain’t Miss Kyiv Pretty? Ain’t Volgagrad ugly? Powerful, eh? All that was left. The Wall of Names I’d heard stories about her and I’d even seen pictures of her, but I really wanted to see Mother Russia for myself. Mother Russia…
Read MoreGoing to the Movies
Your seat is assigned, but you can drink a beer Tonight I went to the movies! I saw the new Lolita at the Moscow Theatre near the Moscow Zoo. The experience was quite familiar. It was a “normal” theatre and the movie was in English, with whispering in my native…
Read MoreRussian 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…
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