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Russian Radio Stations

If you’re curious about what kind of music Russians listen to, go to Listen Live. They have a lot of streaming radio stations with music from Soviet times to the current popular stuff. Give it a listen.

Trip To The Mountains

Took a weekend trip over to the western part of Colorado. Visited places like Grand Junction, Montrose, Ouray and Silverton. Took some pics and thought i’d share a few.  

Cheap, Good Quality Calls To Russia

My Wife has been calling Russia for only $.05 a call (this is a connection fee only), no time limit. The web site is called Internet Calls. The way it works is you download the software to your broadband connected computer, pay a minimum of $10 into an account and start making calls via the [...]

Russian Stereotypes

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 [...]

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 [...]