I’ve avoided this topic in the last few weeks, while the reports of the utter lawlessness and horror out of Kushchevskaya and the surrounding region kept coming. The almost total power of the criminals operating there is startling, the details are like something out of good movie combined with a bad dream: how breaking downContinue reading “Kushchevskaya massacre: why it happened”
Category Archives: Russia
Infidelity, Russian-style
Hell yeah. World Cup. But anyway… I read Julia Ioffe’s piece on infidelity in Russia with great interest, particular because it was for Slate’s DoubleX, and I never really know what the hell I am supposed to make of that particular outfit. A part of me despises it, a part of me is continually intrigued.Continue reading “Infidelity, Russian-style”
Booty dance!
Russia will host the 2018 World Cup!… …According to my calculations, if all should go well, my kid will be in the first grade by then. OK, that’s a terrifying thought. Back to booty dance!
On the Moscow metro. At a “more innocent time.” (lol)
Thank you, Random Dude on Escalator. You gave me much to smile about – that evening, and many evenings hence.
Isn’t it terrible – needing people?
Especially when you are not used to needing anyone? You need your family while growing up, but if you’re privileged enough to not dwell on it too much – then you don’t dwell on it too much. So you go on, policing your borders even when you fall in love, until something in your life changesContinue reading “Isn’t it terrible – needing people?”
Natalia A. 