Moscow International Film Festival? (2012)
Russian Local News In English
Sveta and I went to the movies yesterday. Very special movies… The Moscow International Film Festival… We saw a group of short films made in Russia and Estonia. They were wonderful and from the old days to the new days. They were in 3-D and made in Soviet style 3-D. They were simple wonderful and [...]
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Moscow ? Just Grew a Bunch?
Russian Local News In English
I have an article in the past about how Moscow was going to grow in size. Well it has happened and this looks like just the beginning of her growth phase… Reclaiming and developing new territories will take dozens of years. Fresh projects listed include building two highways, extending the Moscow metro and constructing over [...]
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American Adoption No More in Russia?s Kemerovo Region in South Siberia?
Russian Local News In English
MPs of the Kemerovo Region in South Siberia have passed a bill/law according to which Americans have no right to adopt children anymore on the territory of the region. Exceptions from America are allowed only for very close relatives who have documents proving kinship to people living in the Kemerovo Region in South Siberia… The [...]
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Safe in the Russian Village and Internet is Good?
Russian Local News In English
We finally figured out how to get high speed internet in the village! It was really simple when I discovered how to turn my Android Phone into a WiFi Hotspot… So now for 300 rubles a month in the Village we are able to have full internet and speed on top of it. Why we [...]
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We Found the Russian Sunflowers this year?
Russian Local News In English
Sveta had to go stand with the girls as they all had on their best smiles today. We always look for the sunflower fields and this year it looked like we would not find them, but luck held and we found sunflowers as far as the eye can see. Russians love salted or unsalted sunflower [...]
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Kiev, Ukraine is English Heaven and other stuff?
Russian Local News In English
I am sipping a cup of coffee and looking out the window 19 stories high in the sky. I am in a hotel called T?????. Or basically Tourist is how it is pronounced. The breakfast program is a wonderful buffet and the place is okay! I have yet to have hot water and they say [...]
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I smiled at the world and said to myself, ?That is why I love Ukraine!?
Russian Local News In English
This morning I got up early and hit the bus stop as 30 of us tried to squeeze onto a small bus. I was the last one into the sardine can and 20 minutes later, after 10 more stops and a dozen more people squeezed into a seriously over crowded small bus, we made it [...]
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