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Day of the Retail/Trade Workers
I can’t say that retail sector is one that just blows you away with its efficiency here in Russia. For example, at the moment, we are experiencing an unprecedented heat wave, swinging into its third week with no signs of abating. And, do you think you can purchase a fan or an air-conditioning unit anywhere in Moscow? Ha ha ha ha. No way. HRH said last night that the thing to do it is to start buying space heaters to stay ahead of the curve.
Stranded in Moscow...by choice
Dacha life, part 2 - A dacha weekend with friends ( 1 comment )
My personal dacha story begins with an invitation from our friends to accompany them to their dacha about 60km south of Moscow. The plan was to leave Friday evening and return on Sunday.
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Surprised by Russia
The man who refused a million dollars
What everyone has been talking about for so long and couldn’t quite believe has now finally happened. The Russian mathematician Grigory Perelman has officially refused the Millennium Prize of $1 million awarded him by the Clay Mathematics Institute in Cambridge, Mass., for proving the Poincaré conjecture. Perelman’s explanation for this refusal was as surprising as his actual refusal. He disagrees with the decision of the mathematics community: “I do not like their decision, I consider it unfair,” he said. “I consider that the American mathematician [Richard] Hamilton’s contribution to the solution of the problem is no less than mine.” What Hamilton thinks about this is not yet known.
A Russian paradise in Turkey ( 2 comments )
One of the singularities of the Russian soul is its genuine belief in the possibility of heaven on earth. This faith has been passed down from one generation to the next. Even in Russian fairy tales miracles happen not “long long ago” as they do in Western European tales, but in the “thrice-nine kingdom”. The tie to a place is palpable. A place where dreams come true, somewhere nearby, you just have to find it. So let’s look. In tsarist times peasants went in search to the East, to Siberia, thereby expanding Russian territory.
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Business Calendar
IX International Investment Forum SOCHI-2010
16-19 September
Sochi
World Food Moscow 2010

19th international food and drinks exhibition
14–17 September

Moscow, Expocentre
II International Youth Innovation Forum “Interra”
23-25 September, 2010, Novosibirsk
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Culture Calendar
Opera "Sonya's Story"
Saturday August 7 at 20:15 and Sunday August 8 at 17:15.
Arkhstoyanie
24-25 July, Kaluga Region
9th International Chekhov Theater Festival
25 May-30 July, Moscow
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National Cuisine
Why living off the land can be a bit of an acquired taste
In 1615, Dutch envoy Anthonis Goeteeris, on finding himself in Moscow, wrote: “The Russians have a very strange cuisine.” Although Russian food is generally thought to be monotonous, it is actually rich in original recipes.
New rituals for the New Year ( 7 comments )
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Found in translation
When spies become intelligence officers
How do you say "spy" in Russian? What about "espionage?" And how do you distinguish "spying" from "gathering intelligence?"
The way it was
Nora Fitzgerald
The photographer Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky preserved for us a dramatic moment in time - the Russian Empire on the eve of World War I and the coming Russian Revolution
Vladimir Snegiryov, special For Russia Now
Afghanistan: Western powers must change their agenda to avoid the mistakes of the past
The American arrival
Sergei Khrushchev, special to Russia Now
Five years after Beslan
Nora Fitzgerald, Russia Now
A hot summer in the Cold War
Jack Masey
The Moscow pedestrian mal ( 1 comment )
John Glad
Chernobyl memories ( 1 comment )
John Glad
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