Corruption is Endemic
Who do you think taught the Latin Americans how to steal? Wednesday, January 13, 1999 Market Mobsters Show Art of Running Russia By Irina Glushchenko Have you ever been to Moscow’s “Kashhky Dvor” market where building materials are sold? It is the largest market in the city, and there you…
Read MoreThe Joe-Cool Moscow Crew
The Joe-Cool Moscow Crew So far, In Russia, I am on an ‘A’ list for housemates, Andrey, Ann, and Arthur, with the last two my current Partners in Crime. ANDREY Andrey and I lived together, more precisely he lived in the room next to mine in the communal apartment I…
Read MoreTaxes Will Find You
If you don’t pay your Russian taxes, the boogie man will get you! The Moscow Times, January 12, 1999 Tax Police Go Online in Debt War By Yevgenia Borisova The tax police in the Leningrad region have set up a web site on which it has listed the tax debts…
Read MoreI’m Driven Mad
Only the mad and the ignorant drive in this country! Today, as I was being driven to a meeting, I pondered on the odd profession of being a driver in Russia. Unlike the West, where it is an occupation, something that occupies your time, here it is a profession, something…
Read MoreHolidays Last and Last
I love my twenty-five days of paid vaction! Moscow Times January 11, 1999 At Last, Holidays Approach An End By Julia Solovyova Staff Writer Holiday-weary Russians are nearing the finish line of their Christmas-to-New Year’s marathon, with the normal workday rhythms of rush hour and open stores and offices returning…
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