VIP anytime pass for 2 persons Moscow traffic has positively collapsed this week, and for a godly reason: the sash of Our Lady was brought to Russia from the Mount of Athos in Greece. This is an unpre...
The State Duma elections are coming up on December 4th. The power party, United Russia, has produced a video ad that they have since adjusted to take the mickey out of their political opponents, Fair ...
RecipeMama In a tiny kitchen in our flat my mother and I have just lost a small pancake, or a pikelet. My mother was turning over the pikelets in the frying pan when this little fellow slipped off a s...
Yekaterinburg: Komsomol and Cathedral One of my vivid recollections of the visit to Yekaterinburg is the fact that many of its streets have not been renamed. As a result, the Cathedral on the Blood on...
Michael Cunningham signing books in Moscow, November 18 Moscow is renowned for its unexpected and colossal traffic jams – and never more so as when you’re waiting for a speaker to arrive t...
Marc Chagall, At the Easel (My LiFe, Orion Press, 1960) I’m currently reading “My Life” by Marc Chagall. It is in Russian, and I haven’t read it before. I love his paintings, b...
Miroslav Valek, illustration to The Blizzard Usually I can see the Moscow State University’s main building from my window – but now it is barely seen through the most beautiful blizzard. T...
Caravaggio, The Entombment The exhibition of the famous Italian Baroque painter, Michelangelo di Caravaggio, opens at the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts in Moscow on November 26, 2011. The works on displ...
Coming to a new city, you (I) somehow manage to notice just about anything, most of which a lot of citizens would ignore. And even though a lot of you, dear readers, sit abroad and don’t read in...
My visit to Yekaterinburg was partly for work, and one of my tasks was to explore the public gardens in the city. Granted there were not too many of them, I still managed to identify a few places wher...