It’s been a struggle over the last week or so because I have been without Internet service, and it looks like that will continue for the next couple of weeks. When you’re subjected to a life with no cable or Internet, it starts to make you feel like you’re living in a desolate wasteland where [...]
(This is how Russian kids celebrate the end of their high school career – it looks like this youngster’s graduation present consisted of alcohol and anabolic steroids) It’s time for me to pull back the iron curtain, and unveil the newest batch of crazy stories from the Kremlin: “Pancaked“ The winner of a pancake-eating contest [...]
As far as I can tell, there hasn’t been much in the way of crazy Russian news stories recently. Since my go-to site (MosNews) hasn’t updated their content in a couple of months, I have been searching the news wires on Google and Yahoo! daily for anything remotely amusing and/or outrageous involving our comrades across the pond. I did manage [...]
I’m happy to say that my favorite outlet for Russian current events (MosNews) has apparently paid their web host enough Rubles to get their site back up. From what I can tell, they haven’t had enough time to add any new stories since their hiatus, but luckily there are plenty of stories from the recent past to fill the void. Here are [...]
