My Favorite Coffee Shop
For now, the Bravos coffee shop is the best in my neighborhood. Good coffee and friendly staff.
Category: EN
Posts in English, it’s obvious, innit?
Man Without Shadow
Marika Rökk, who was banned from acting for two years for her apparent closeness to the Nazi regime, had in fact been working from the 1940s onwards for a reconnaissance network passing Third Reich secrets to Moscow, according to the Guardian newspaper.
Organic Food Store with a Nasty Twist
German Sterligov’s organic food store: no gays allowed, the rest get a nice smile.
Kalashnikov Statue Causes Controversy in Moscow
There is undoubtedly nothing artistic about the statue to the father of the legendary AK-47: a man with a submachine-gun and the ubiquitous St. George piercing the dragon (or the less ubiquitous Archangel Michael defeating the devil, according to a different school of thought) are parts of the new memorial…
About Squirrel Patrols in Moscow
Once upon a time, when things were quiet in Moscow, the then AP bureau chief Caro Kriel found a fascinating story in the word’s very wide web, claiming that city authorities had ordered police details to patrol parks in order to protect squirrels from poachers. Like those nasty guys in…
“Workers’ Demonstrations” in USSR
On the first of May, as well as on other Soviet holidays that required universal shows of loyalty, factory and office workers, government employees, students and faculty members would gather in a specific location, assigned by the authorities, with flags, posters and portraits of Communist party leaders, and would then…
A Tale of Love and Peril in the Cold War
My friend Vladimir McMillin (in this photo he drinks beer in a Moscow bar in September 2017) has authored a book about his father James, or Jimmy, McMillin, who defected to the Soviet Union in the late forties.
The Battle for Tskhinval(i)
It was not easy to cover the conflict in South Ossetia in 2008, which involved Georgia, Russia and the breakaway Georgian province which has since proclaimed outright independence recognized by Russia.
Stalin and Dow Jones
Once upon a time a TASS night-time editor picked up a ringing phone and – lo and behold – there was Stalin’s voice on the other end. The supreme leader wanted to know the current Dow Jones index.
