sometimes moscow gets a little tiring. some days it feels like it’s a bit too big, a bit too crowded, a bit too expensive; the metro is a bit too hot, the traffic jams are a bit too frequent, and the...
ivan aleksandrovich was sitting behind his desk, wearing a dark green militsia uniform and an expression of malicious boredom – the kind of boredom that calls for cruelty for the purposes of entertai...
an article i wrote for my friend lulus magazine in the hope to elucidate the complex matter of russian fashion and what exactly makes some girls think that ostrich heels look good with a versace leop...
Photos taken at yesterdays rally against PutinYesterday I went to the latest protest against Putin and his re-election as President. The official outcome of the presidential elections was announced l...
these are just a few of the millions of pictures i took in the wonderful, tiny, and almost completely disconnected from the world Suzdal, a town of a few thousand inhabitants, half of which seemed to...
more boredom so more blogging so since im getting a bit nervous about going back via reading articles on the Moscow Times about people freezing to death in the streets i have decided to Look At The B...
ok so i havent posted in forever but i think i have a good excuse for that and its that the blog is called "laura goes to moscow" and implies that i am in moscow every time i blog but ive bee...
my friend asked me the other day why im so upset about leaving moscow on tuesday for a month (a whole month!). because i am, and not just because i had the most fun birthday party yesterday involving...
what the past week has taught me about russian politics- russians are only just discovering what democracy is. i dont mean this in any patronising way, but its true: its only been twenty years since ...
Услышишь гром и вспомнишь обо мне Подумаешь: она грозы желала... Полоска неба будет твердо-алой, А сердце будет как тогда — в огне. Случится это в тот московский день, Когда я город навсегда покину И...
sixty-eight days in russia. something in me is bound to have changed, no? i dont mean this in a particularly deep way - though im sure that ive become more, i dont know, brave and, uhm, strong in the...
happy anniversary of the great socialist october revolution! tried to go see the tanks on red square this morning in the freezing cold - yes, the freezing cold is here, it was -10C yesterday and...
youre not that far after allfriday afternoon of my fifty-third day in russia and im chilling (quite literally as the window doesnt shut properly and theres a constant draught of icy air coming in) in...
from englishrussia.com again. this is from a series of photos called "this is how russian nerds party",and its one of the reasons why i keep going back to that website.after a month and a hal...
from playboy magazine, 1990. no relation to the post, but i thought it looked interesting.“it was like a russian party, arkady thought. people got drunk, recklessly confessed their love, spilled thei...
lenin and his skatersimagine getting out of your warm (albeit as uncomfortable as the ground) bed at eight in the morning, getting dressed while still half asleep, having a quick bowl of hot kasha (r...
darling simon, i found myself doing the exact same thing throughout the episode.so i know this is supposed to be a blog about my amazing russian adventures and all, but i had lots of lectures this we...
the beatles russian matryoshka dolls. yep.ive complained/enthused over moscow being a huge city before, which means i spend a lot of time on the underground, and then even longer walking from the sta...
bonsoir from an exhausted laura, currently sitting on her bed in her vintage (but newly-refurbished! courtesy of ikea) room. had a strange, amazing week which started off with a traumatising bureaucr...
its been raining non-stop today - i was only out for a couple of hours and came back a soaking mess, so i decided to hide in my room tonight (like everyone else it seems, sunday nights seem to be ver...
здравствуйте everyone from room 658 of the sixth floor of sector B of moscow state university, moscow, RUSSIA. say WHAT. ive been here for just over seventy two hours and have been either très busy o...
from englishrussia.com again. this is from a series called "how to look soviet". the caption reads: Some Russian men are always full of creative ideas. One of them decided to make an unusual ...
eight days. vintage moscow (englishrussia.com). cute! a while ago - maybe between naps in the library during exams, or possibly one standard hangover morning on stumbleupon - i came across a lovely w...
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