A Man’s True Worth
Natalya Slavina on gender roles, issues, and stereotypes in Russian country living vs. city life.
What’s a better environment for a man to live in: rural or urban? I asked this question to several fellows who spent a good part of their lives in a city and then moved into a rural area and took their wives and children with them.
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Soviet kids riddle checks attentiveness and logic
Magazines for children were numerous in the USSR. They published a lot of entertaining and challenging riddles and fun problems. Many times children and adults racked their brains over them together. Here is one of them.
Take a close look at the picture and answer the following 9 questions: Continue reading “Soviet kids riddle checks attentiveness and logic”
Shuttle diplomacy anecdote from Henry Kissinger
Here it is; the real art of negotiations. Level: God.
Henry Kissinger was once asked to explain what shuttle diplomacy was.
– Oh! It is a never-failing old Jewish method. Let me give you an example. Suppose you want to marry Rockefeller’s daughter to a lad from a Siberian village. Continue reading “Shuttle diplomacy anecdote from Henry Kissinger”
Russia is a Police Country, and All Russian Men Are Hunks
By Dmitriy Mihailin
“There are lots of cops in Russia,” my buddy from England remarked as he was entering my apartment. “I have not noticed this before, but today on the way to your place it struck me – just about every third guy is in uniform. Russia is rapidly turning into a Police country.”
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