If you are too busy to laugh, you are too busy. – a proverb Laughter is not always associated with comedy; Mary Beard studied laughter as a ‘social signifier’ in the Roman society....
There are many reasons why you’d need to pop into an Internet cafe. You may have no laptop, or your mobile Internet has run out, and you suddenly have to check emails or send a file. Below are t...
Opened in November 1979, the Central House of the Artists sits opposite the famous Gorky Park and can be reached from Park Kultury or Oktyabr’skaya metro stations. It is also within the easy rea...
OK, we all agree it’s pricey, but that’s the price you charge for a life-long passion! In fact, it’s not too bad, bearing in mind the run you get for your money. This is a family res...
Do you know the answer to the question in the post’s title? I bet you don’t even guess what the answer is. You may rest assured, though, that on this side of Europe nothing is what youR...
Julia and the yellow Porsche GUM, which is short from Glavnyi Universalnyi Magazin, is the oldest and the largest department store in the capital. Having started long before the 19th c. as the trading...
A few days ago I had an email from the guys who offered to share their infographic with my readers, to gauge your opinion on a kind of sensitive issue. We all know about the wealthy and the poor divid...
Last Friday I attended a press-conference at the RIA Novosti agency in Moscow, after which I thought I’d try to shoot a video on a bridge across the Moskva River. I tried it in colour, but event...
Samuel J. Peploe – The Pink Dress. A Study of a Burmese Girl I am reading a book by the famous Soviet writer and translator, Kornei Chukovsky. Among other things, he translated Walt Whitman into...
In 2009, The Telegraph shared photos of dogs groomed beyond recognition by their masters. I blogged some photos in the article Poodle Who? A Kitsch Touch to Creative Grooming. A few years later I came...