The way of life in Russia is very simple. Russians love to eat black bread with salted herring and drink vodka.
The Russian mafia is in charge of everything.
Russian women are the most beautiful in the world.
The sub-zero cold winters are impossible to survive.
The university professors have to sell matryoshkas to foreigners to survive.
Playing balalaika and [...]
Posts from ‘April, 2007’
Russian Stereotypes
The Ritual of Banya or What Americans Call a Sauna
Is this the place where grown men sit naked, wear a strange hat, drink vodka, beat each other with sticks and run out of a nice warm building into the cold frigid snow or into a lake of freezing water? Yes it most certainly is. Sounds just a little more on the strange side than [...]
Skiing in Moscow?
Came across an interesting article about skiing in Moscow. Check it out here.
Beer Rescue
Well, I don’t know how I missed this one! Apparently back in January 2004, Russian troops rescued 10 tons of beer… Sounds like this was an important mission. Apparently while trying to cross the frozen Irtysh river, near the Siberian city of Omsk, the truck sank. The two drivers were able to escape, but lost [...]
