Spring is Here Finally
After eight months of winter, Spring is fantastic! Blue skies and new leaves! Time to clean the streets! The first snow fall was the first day of September. The snow never left after the first day of November. It was -17 C in December and -25 C in January. February…
Read MorePolitics, Russian Style
Russia knows only one type of politics: hardball Boris on a good day A man with a Plan What they are fighting for And reality skis away again Today I went home at lunch to watch Boris Nikolivitch Yeltsin’s midday address to the nation, announcing his dismissal of his entire…
Read MoreTheresa Tries to Russify
I love friends who visit! Wayan has asked me to write something of my impression of Moscow for this website. My very first thoughts included words like cold, dreary, gray, and gloomy. This was all from the taxi ride into town from the airport. Everyone, with very few exceptions, was…
Read MoreI Go to Gay Clubs Worldwide
Swining with the best of the CIS! No matter where you are in the world, if you want the best a city’s nightlife has to offer, head to the gay clubs! I learned this maxim first in University, where my housemate, Deans, and I would go to “The Club.” See…
Read MoreI Hide on Women’s Day
Unlike in America, Women’s Day in Russia is a national holiday! Today, Monday, I do not work. In fact, no one in Russia is working today if they can help it. Today is a national holiday, because yesterday was Women’s Day. This is the Russian equivalent of Mother’s Day and…
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