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  • BAM & Baikal
    • Planned route– east to west
    • Khabarovsk summary
    • First day in Komsomolsk na Amure
    • Sunrise in Komsomolsk
    • Komsomolsk-on-Amur famous
    • Komsomolsk and first day on the BAM
    • Tynda!
    • Arrival to Severobaikal’sk
    • Goudzhekit
    • First walk to Baikal
    • Yes, I’m in SIberia but what I really needed was a bikini
    • Ulan Ude
    • The amazing Dusya
    • Back in the USSR
    • Best day maybe ever
    • Moscow is old hat to me
  • Rachel’s Parents Go To Russia
    • …and we’re back!
    • Introducing our very special guests
    • Failing at blogging
    • Miami to Moscow….finally.
    • Daniel– extra hands and extra brain
    • From Tretyakov to Tchaikovsky…
    • Victory Day
    • Georgian dinner
    • The Kremlin and, later, dear friends
    • To St. Petersburg with some Mozart
    • Tatiana, and other beautiful things
    • Catherine’s Palace and Putin’s birthday restaurant
    • The Hermitage..and a late night for me
    • Peterhof, the Cottage Palace, the metro, and a surprise dessert
    • Rich and poor….a day with a theme
  • Volga Volga!
    • Why are you going to Russia in November?
    • Arrived…exhausted…amused.
    • The Russian Academy of Sciences
    • The Irony Museum
    • “Everyone needs to be proud of something”–Andrei
    • Wednesday afternoon
    • Saratov: delightful City of Nerds
    • Three sweaty, smelly men
    • Kazan is BOOMING!
    • A fucked-up travel day that was entirely my fault
    • How’s that mid-life crisis going?
    • An afternoon in Chuvashia
    • Razdolye Part 1
    • Razdolye Part 2
    • Leaving Razdolye and “tour” of Yoshkar-Ola
    • Back to Moscow and saying goodbye
  • Working Girl
    • Auspicious start! Sort of.
    • Getting comfortable
    • Doing everything in one day
    • Girls and pies
    • The murder that shook the world, at least for a few days
    • The almighty test of the rental kitchen– or everything you ever wanted to know about differences in food products
    • Everyone has to pee somewhere
    • International Women’s Day
    • Wrapping things up
  • May thru Sept.
    • Rocket to Russia
    • It will always be better than it has been
    • Big Brother Comes to Russia
    • Are Russians Friendly?
    • TASS is authorized to declare….
    • To be continued…
  • Arkhyz
    • October means back to Moscow
    • Don’t try to make Sonoran dogs in Moscow
    • The triumph of Sharif’s photo session
    • First night in Stavropol
    • The Conference begins…
    • The Wheels on the Bus
    • The Special Astrophysical Observatory
    • Lunch in the Caucasus
  • Ufa
    • A Visit to the Moscow Asylum Office
    • Friendship of Peoples
    • My Tatar neighborhood
    • An American, a Chechen, a gay Uzbek, and an Old Believer walk into a palace…
    • Ufa, Old and New
    • Being an American Kid in a Foreign Country
    • On The Town!
    • You might be a diplomat if…
  • The Fulbright
    • Some unavoidable politics
    • Belgorod the Beautiful
    • Parkovaya 5
    • What my days are like so far
    • Russian Internet Dating
    • A little more about Belgorod
    • За Грибами
    • 30 years of sacrifice
    • Always say yes
    • Belgorod vs. Tucson
    • I followed the Moskva down to Gorky Park
    • Hanging with the Babushki
    • Media Roundup
    • Winter– it’s no joke
    • The cheerful cow
    • Belgorod: What I miss now and what I will miss later
    • Saudade in Belgorod
  • Conference Season
    • Politicians never listen
    • Detour to Hanoi
    • A day without Russians
    • Oh, those Russians!
  • Misc!
    • Article and a Controversy
    • 22 Ways Russia was Hipster Before Hipster Was Even a Thing
    • My article in Watermark
    • Medovik|Медовик
    • We are what we eat
    • Tucson could be a little more like Belgorod
  • Russia-adjacent
    • Welcome to Tbilisi
    • To the west– Borjomi and farther
    • Things I noticed about Georgia
    • Sights close to Tbilisi
    • Up into the Racha mountains
  • Crimea
    • Shhh…I’m not sure I’m supposed to be here
    • Apparently I knew nothing about Crimea
    • Balaklava– not the knit mask
    • Sevastopol
    • Yalta
  • April 2018
    • “Aeroflot is always exciting!”
    • Moscow’s new park
    • Novuss
  • BAM & Baikal
    • Planned route– east to west
    • Khabarovsk summary
    • First day in Komsomolsk na Amure
    • Sunrise in Komsomolsk
    • Komsomolsk-on-Amur famous
    • Komsomolsk and first day on the BAM
    • Tynda!
    • Arrival to Severobaikal’sk
    • Goudzhekit
    • First walk to Baikal
    • Yes, I’m in SIberia but what I really needed was a bikini
    • Ulan Ude
    • The amazing Dusya
    • Back in the USSR
    • Best day maybe ever
    • Moscow is old hat to me
  • Rachel’s Parents Go To Russia
    • …and we’re back!
    • Introducing our very special guests
    • Failing at blogging
    • Miami to Moscow….finally.
    • Daniel– extra hands and extra brain
    • From Tretyakov to Tchaikovsky…
    • Victory Day
    • Georgian dinner
    • The Kremlin and, later, dear friends
    • To St. Petersburg with some Mozart
    • Tatiana, and other beautiful things
    • Catherine’s Palace and Putin’s birthday restaurant
    • The Hermitage..and a late night for me
    • Peterhof, the Cottage Palace, the metro, and a surprise dessert
    • Rich and poor….a day with a theme
  • Volga Volga!
    • Why are you going to Russia in November?
    • Arrived…exhausted…amused.
    • The Russian Academy of Sciences
    • The Irony Museum
    • “Everyone needs to be proud of something”–Andrei
    • Wednesday afternoon
    • Saratov: delightful City of Nerds
    • Three sweaty, smelly men
    • Kazan is BOOMING!
    • A fucked-up travel day that was entirely my fault
    • How’s that mid-life crisis going?
    • An afternoon in Chuvashia
    • Razdolye Part 1
    • Razdolye Part 2
    • Leaving Razdolye and “tour” of Yoshkar-Ola
    • Back to Moscow and saying goodbye
  • Working Girl
    • Auspicious start! Sort of.
    • Getting comfortable
    • Doing everything in one day
    • Girls and pies
    • The murder that shook the world, at least for a few days
    • The almighty test of the rental kitchen– or everything you ever wanted to know about differences in food products
    • Everyone has to pee somewhere
    • International Women’s Day
    • Wrapping things up
  • May thru Sept.
    • Rocket to Russia
    • It will always be better than it has been
    • Big Brother Comes to Russia
    • Are Russians Friendly?
    • TASS is authorized to declare….
    • To be continued…
  • Arkhyz
    • October means back to Moscow
    • Don’t try to make Sonoran dogs in Moscow
    • The triumph of Sharif’s photo session
    • First night in Stavropol
    • The Conference begins…
    • The Wheels on the Bus
    • The Special Astrophysical Observatory
    • Lunch in the Caucasus
  • Ufa
    • A Visit to the Moscow Asylum Office
    • Friendship of Peoples
    • My Tatar neighborhood
    • An American, a Chechen, a gay Uzbek, and an Old Believer walk into a palace…
    • Ufa, Old and New
    • Being an American Kid in a Foreign Country
    • On The Town!
    • You might be a diplomat if…
  • The Fulbright
    • Some unavoidable politics
    • Belgorod the Beautiful
    • Parkovaya 5
    • What my days are like so far
    • Russian Internet Dating
    • A little more about Belgorod
    • За Грибами
    • 30 years of sacrifice
    • Always say yes
    • Belgorod vs. Tucson
    • I followed the Moskva down to Gorky Park
    • Hanging with the Babushki
    • Media Roundup
    • Winter– it’s no joke
    • The cheerful cow
    • Belgorod: What I miss now and what I will miss later
    • Saudade in Belgorod
  • Conference Season
    • Politicians never listen
    • Detour to Hanoi
    • A day without Russians
    • Oh, those Russians!
  • Misc!
    • Article and a Controversy
    • 22 Ways Russia was Hipster Before Hipster Was Even a Thing
    • My article in Watermark
    • Medovik|Медовик
    • We are what we eat
    • Tucson could be a little more like Belgorod
  • Russia-adjacent
    • Welcome to Tbilisi
    • To the west– Borjomi and farther
    • Things I noticed about Georgia
    • Sights close to Tbilisi
    • Up into the Racha mountains
  • Crimea
    • Shhh…I’m not sure I’m supposed to be here
    • Apparently I knew nothing about Crimea
    • Balaklava– not the knit mask
    • Sevastopol
    • Yalta
  • April 2018
    • “Aeroflot is always exciting!”
    • Moscow’s new park
    • Novuss
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April 26, 2018 / 3 comments

Novuss
April 23, 2018 / 0 comments

Moscow’s new park
April 15, 2018 / 0 comments

“Aeroflot is always exciting!”
December 6, 2017 / 2 comments / Video

Somehow wound up on TV again
December 3, 2017 / 3 comments

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