Born with boots on military duty for men in Russia is a "MUST"!?After knowing the history of countless disputes -- between the Grand Duchy of Moscow and Mongol Empire; then Russian kingdom and Ottoman Empire, and Polska Kingdom, and Poland-Lithuanian commonwealth, and Swedish Empire; the...
Didn't you think that Northern places have no chance to surprise you with its surrounded beauty of shady glades, height- daunting skyscrapers, historical monuments, and stately architecture ...
When the "iron curtain" fell new ideas rashly flooded from the West, but what was the least expected and embarrassing for Russians was to see how the last USSR president took a part in one particular anti-patriotic commercial, if to say noting -- saluting the...
random trash would be picked up - on the street- and tossed to the needed waste category: combustible (moeru), incombustible (moenai), and recyclable (risaikuru) c'est la vie, enjoy life, good dine and wine What's under your feet? Heh please, in France it's better to look around; the...
Huh, its like grabbing your coffee in the morning and — out of a blue — hearing some tragical news that somewhere people were killed. Shock, sad, confused while trying to take a first sip of coffee,...
What Russians do when they don't drink or fight? — roughly a silly stereotype that some Russians do live up to, but there is so unknown—quite mysterious—what the rest are actually up to, especially at "da most wonderful time of the year" — yeah, talking...
Drinking means… You drink? Do you? This spiky question just happen to leave some kind of mark on your persona. Good or bad, depends on who is asking. But the following attitudes toward you would be pre-made based on your words, more rigorous in case of...
Where the conservative methods - the known practices - fail the new creative recipes for stress release, may surprise with its efficiency. In South Korea there are numbers of practices - odd, quirky ways to distract you from the real world - that could work to...
Hmm, well I can't even come up with an example when 'following' something or somebody fully is good or ending well. Not on my watch. In my experiences this mean of devoting your time, obeying the rules, and trustfully follow something that was given to...
"Guilty by default" - the phrase I borrowed from one of the news channels and is far the most suitable status that defines how some countries look at Russia nowadays. The whole nation is often blamed for indefinite hazy sins just because they are born...
