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HRH and the Puffy Riot

By on 03/10/2012

The couple that surfs together stays together, and that is why I make sure that HRH and I start each day with some quality surfing time.  Two cups of coffee, two iPads, and two completely separate news streams.   While HRH scrolls through RBK and Rambler, I log on to the Huffington Post for some Real [...]

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Day of the Border Guards /День пограничника: Big Borders: Big Booze Up

By on 28/05/2010

At the moment, Russia has 14 neighbors, and not all of them are the kind you could pop over and borrow a cup of sugar from.

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The Day of Victory /День Победы: “In defeat, unbeatable: in victory, unbearable”

By on 09/05/2010

World War II, or “The Great Patriotic War:” a conflict primarily fought in the Eastern European theater of war: starring the Russians as the Good Guys and featuring the Nazis as the Bad Guys.

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Why I Hate Dachas, and You Should Too!

By on 02/05/2010

The fact of the matter is, and no amount of Chekhov will convince me otherwise: this whole dacha thing is a well-oiled vehicle to keep female indentured servitude alive and well in the early 21st Century.

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