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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The most famous ameliorator (a group of people who are focused on improvements to the quality and quantity of arable land in Russia) is, of course, completely fictional.
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HRH is not really interested in going green. He’s not up at night fretting about his carbon footprint. He refused to let me consider getting a hybrid car, which he…
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You have To Be Very Firm with your HRH about how going shirtless is not acceptable outside the bedroom, or before you know it, there will be a coterie of…
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