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…
Read MorePsst! 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…
Read MoreFili 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…
Read MoreWeb Page Reactions
You 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,…
Read MoreTake a Break at Dom Odaha
I went to a sanatorium but I wasn’t crazy My style of training sessions. Go Speedracer! Those fast stops hurt! This weekend, my division of Price Waterhouse went to a dom odaha (rest home), for the weekend. A Russian rest home is not where you send Grandma and Grandpa to…
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