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…
Read MoreThe ‘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…
Read MoreWhy 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…
Read MoreYou 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…
Read MoreYou oughta see what people say to me! When I first started this site, I was bored out of my mind waiting for the Peace Corps to get its act together, so I wrote a few pages late at night. Now that the page is almost 10 megabytes of information,…
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