Too Cold to Care!
You think you know what winter is? Ha! I lived through two Russian ones! Ready to clean the snow! Mmm.. car tasty! Get that snow off the ground! Scraping away at the ice Nice and chilly apartments Gonna need a heater first! I know I should be writing these pages…
Read MoreRussian Oil Towns
That’s black gold to these folks Financial Times 4 November 1998 SIBERIA: Economy shows its two faces Arkady Ostrovsky visits the Siberian oil towns of Surgut and Nefteyugansk and finds radically different moods Two oil towns face each other across the river Ob, which divides east from west Siberia. They…
Read MoreSneaky Siberian Tigers
Siberian Tigers are out there! Baltimore Sun, November 8, 1998 Siberian tigers are menaced as Russian economy collapses By Will Englund In 1992, when the economy was very bad here, poaching threatened to get out of hand. Reports that the tigers faced extinction led to a grant by the German…
Read MoreWhich Way is St Peterburg?
No matter what they say, it isn’t Moscow St. Petersburg Times, November 6, 1998 Will Liberal St. Petersburg Go With Russia’s Flow? By Brian Whitmore St. Petersburg, everyone will tell you,is different. It is more cosmopolitan than Russia’s sleepy provinces, yet more sedate than the Babylonian free-for-all of Moscow. Culturally,…
Read MoreWhere am I again? Oh, yeah…
Another week in the life of a man in Moscow He ain’t going nowhere! Sometimes I get confused as to where I am working cuz I’ve worked at so many desks in my office building! Friday I wrote this in the midst of an office move. We are not moving…
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