Russia’s president is a real gadget geek, so visiting Silicon Valley for him was like having lunch with all of Disney Princesses for a 6-year old girl from Alabama.
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Amongst modern historians, there are two schools of thought on this “it was a complete surprise, we had absolutely no idea they were coming” theory about the Nazi invasion of…
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Statistics from Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia report that Canine Units were responsible for participating in solving 87, 763 crimes in 2009. Today is Canine Unit Day!
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The Russian health care system can be characterized by the “Feast or Famine” theme: this is a country that pioneered laser eye surgery, but still uses jam where you and…
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Citizenship, Comrades, is not a travel document. You can’t have a propiska (a residency permit) in a Moscow apartment, and vote for Barack Obama. One or the other. Not both.
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What really is sad, is the knowledge that Russia could have been a contender in providing a world-wide brand, but the UGG people got there first
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As we say in Russia: “If there’s an idea, there’s IKEA,” and there is nothing quite like a day out at that island of Nordic calm to make you feel…
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Like most women in Russia, I live with a beer expert.
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I cannot believe this Russian bride industry is still going strong twenty-five years after perestroika. Are there still Western men of sub-human intelligence who are stupid enough to be taken…
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