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March 2008
Election Spring-Cleaning!
March 1st - the first day of Spring, and time for Russian Presidential Elections on March 2nd. Swiftly on to March 8th there's International Women's Day... a day when hen-pecked men can be seen gloomily marching homewards with cardboard-boxed gateaux and similar pressies... Read more...
February 2008
Russia Today TV Clip
Russia with its long history, rich and diverse nature, one of the most glamorous capitals in the world, still doesn't top the list of tourist destinations. What attracts tourists more in other countries and do the old stereotypes get in the way of Russia becoming the number one travel destination? Read more...
December 2007
A la recherche du propaganda perdu...
Sitting here writing this, I realise that I’ve been living in Russia for nine years this time around – although I lived and worked in Leningrad – as it was called then – about ten years before that, as the Local Rep for another travel company. "So, errr, what was it like here, then?" is one of the most popular questions, and to say it was "different" about 3% of the full answer. It was, in all honesty, like a different dimension – the same geographic space, but inhabited by an entirely different and utterly mad country. Read more...
14 May 2008
Football Frenzy
Did you know
Tsarina Catherine The Great was Russia’s most famous female ruler. But her title was “Tsaritsa”, not “tsarina” (a long-running mistake in English). And she wasn’t Russian, she was German. And her name wasn’t Catherine, but Sophie. Apart from that it’s right.