Here are some views I get to see from my office window. Which one is your favourite?...
My University friend and I went to Gorky Park this August. Many years ago I went there with my Mum, they celebrated the Park’s anniversary, and I got a badge for reading the poetry on stage. The...
Moscow celebrated its 865th anniversary today with many sportive, cultural and family events scattered across city centre. I visited a few before joining a good friend for a cup of coffee, so below ar...
As you gathered from previous post, I can now blog from my mobile phone. Don’t be surprised: in all 6 years I blogged from PCs, notebooks, and netbooks, sometimes even at the Internet cafes, but...
I’ll finally have some time off work, which I hope to use to roll on the green Moscow grass. I’ve had this inexplicable crave for grass-rolling for about a month now. As a matter of fact, ...
Last night in a company of several translators we discussed the fact that Jean-Luc Godard’s title, A Bout du Souffle, is not correctly translated in either Russian, or English. The original titl...
Yesterday I had the most pleasant chance to attend a presentation of a book by Slava Polunin, Russian-born best clown in the world. Called Stairway To Heaven, it has little to do with Led Zeppelin; on...
I have no idea exactly how many yoga clubs there are in Moscow. According to this site, there should be at least 270. The so-called “non-traditional” practices were popular even before 199...
Google celebrates the centenary of the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts with a delicate Doodle The impressive building of the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts in Volkhonka St., across the road from the restored...
Bulat Okudzhava clad in white Moscow “Occupy” protests move from one spot to another, sometimes escaping the police, sometimes not. And while the government gives gentle, if persistent, hi...