I 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…

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I 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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New & Shiny: Nizhny Novgorod

The ‘Lower’ Novgorod working it like Moscow! March 8 AFP via Johnson’s Russia List Russian city is bright spot amid the gloom NIZHNY-NOVGOROD, Russia, – The Russian region of Nizhny- Novgorod, 450 kilometres (275 miles) southeast of Moscow, is one of the few bright spots in the country’s economy, continuing…

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Psst! Wanna job in Moscow?

Why work? It is way more fun to play! Getting a job in Russia is very simple. Just get off the plane, answer your cell phone and pick your dream job, complete with penthouse suite, driver, cook, maid, and obscene salary. Nutting to it if you are fluently bi-lingual, intimately…

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Fili Park Has All the Bootlegs

You think we pay full price for CD’s in Russia? Ha! This past weekend was my first, and last, weekend in February where I wasn’t zipping off someplace. I was so happy to be able to chill in my apartment for the first time. After I spent Saturday afternoon cleaning…

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