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On the roof in Zaloze... This summer’s construction story starring Tajiks, Ukrainians, and Russians 12 Aug 2013 | 08:20 pm
Setting price is put on the employer’s shoulders... Nobody we’ve hired has provides a written contract or estimate since I arrived in 2000. What we end up paying isn’t clear until work is completed ...
What you won’t find in Russia’s supermarkets can tell you a lot 31 Jul 2013 | 11:23 am
Where am I? I believe you could wake up in a grocery, and without seeing the languages, figure out the country you were in, perhaps even which province. We are not so homogenized after all. One wa....
Our Russian Village 21 Jul 2013 | 08:37 pm
More vacation and less anxiety... The Russian way of life sometimes seems more conducive to happiness than that in the States. People are amazed when they hear of the short vacations Americans take....
A Week at a Russian Sanatorium 7 Jul 2013 | 11:25 pm
We are in the village again for the summer, with no landline telephone, and consequently, no cable internet. Our Beeline USB with a Huawei modem isn’t working so well and presently I can’t include ph...
Affordable Medical Care in Russia 2013 23 Apr 2013 | 08:09 pm
Russian pharmacies haven’t changed much since 2000. This pharmacy has two windows... no impulse items, stationery, candy, as you find in US drugstores. You never have to wait for a prescription to b...
Affordable Medical Care in Russia 2013 23 Apr 2013 | 08:09 pm
Russian pharmacies haven’t changed much since 2000. This pharmacy has two windows... no impulse items, stationery, candy, as you find in US drugstores. You never have to wait for a prescription to b...
Advice from Russia to Potential Expats 23 Mar 2013 | 03:21 pm
In America vacations were few and short, but in Russia it’s possible to spend all summer at a beautiful lake next to the Volga. It’s almost thirteen years since we arrived in St Petersburg from New J...
Advice from Russia to Potential Expats 23 Mar 2013 | 03:21 pm
In America vacations were few and short, but in Russia it’s possible to spend all summer at a beautiful lake next to the Volga. It’s almost thirteen years since we arrived in St Petersburg from New J...
Social at 70 with InterNations in Russia 23 Feb 2013 | 03:34 pm
Tactless but true... “I guess you’re the oldest person here”, a man from Central Europe said glibly. I was chagrinned, as I have rarely thought of myself as looking that old. I had just arrived at ...
Social at 70 with InterNations in Russia 23 Feb 2013 | 03:34 pm
Tactless but true... “I guess you’re the oldest person here”, a man from Central Europe said glibly. I was chagrinned, as I have rarely thought of myself as looking that old. I had just arrived at ...
