Archive for April, 2008
МАЯКОВСКИЙ: Love Him or Hate Him, but Respect Him Posted by josefina on Apr 5, 2008
I’ve lived here for over 3,5 years (on August 30th 2008 it will be 4 years since I came to Russia) but I’ve only spent one day in Moscow, not counting all of those innumerous times that I’ve traveled through the capitol by plane or train. On the one day I spent in Moscow I…
The Community Project Posted by josefina on Apr 4, 2008
Some of the more attentive readers (or probably just about everyone who reads this) might have noticed that there’s a new feature to this blog – a little something called ‘Community Project’. After writing for this blog for about five months now I couldn’t help but to become aware of the good, sometimes even exceptional…
Russian Realia, or Текст для чтения Posted by josefina on Apr 1, 2008
I know that there was a frequent practise of publishing smaller texts in Russian on this blog before I arrived, and I have thought about whether or not to countinue this tradition myself. After long consideration (about five months) I have decided to give it a try. I will only touch upon subjects regarding a…