MOSKVICHI & MOSKVA

An American dream car in Moscow

21/07/2011 19:27

After years of cruising around the city’s nightspots, Matvei is ready to trade in his custom-made Cadillac

Forlorn and French at Domododevo

14/07/2011 19:46

A hapless 50-something couple were expecting a welcoming French travel agency. Instead, they got incomprehension, taxi and hotel rip-offs – and me

Kicking back with Mr. Mayor

07/07/2011 19:30

A press-tour seemed dreary – until the town’s mayor cracked open the vodka

Classic cuisine and white nights

30/06/2011 19:55

New York filmmaker Monica couldn’t get enough of Moscow – from dill and pelmeni to a sunrise over the Kremlin

The sailor who bought baguettes

23/06/2011 20:23

Davey used to sail around the world on cargo ships. That is, until he popped out to buy bread one morning in St. Petersburg

Minister of mandarins

16/06/2011 20:05

Abkhazia’s foreign minister has a dream career and a beautiful assistant. Now all he needs is recognition from the world

From a Kalashnikov, with love

02/06/2011 20:02

The strange and wonderful tale of a couple kissing at Domodedovo airport

The dictator’s nose

26/05/2011 20:31

A weekend in Tbilisi has it all. Georgian girls are the most beautiful in the world, young men drink like crazy – and you’ll hear the most incredible stories

No apples in the Soviet Union

19/05/2011 20:39

I had never seen myself as an unwitting courier of strange substances. Until I met Valentina, that is

War is hell – and so are pensions

12/05/2011 19:11

Ignorance is bliss when it comes to armed conflict, but ignorance doesn't inspire people to take care of veterans

Lucy in the sky with babushka

05/05/2011 20:19

Russian kitchen stories can be truly amazing, but few are as weird as the one about Yulia’s granny’s LSD trip

Meet the eco-Nazis

28/04/2011 19:45

They might be Moscow’s lunatic environmental fringe – but they made my local park look lovely

Politsia, smilitsia

21/04/2011 19:56

I've been harassed, detained and threatened by the Russian police in many places, yet almost never in Moscow. Until this week, when it happened twice

Jumping ship

14/04/2011 20:44

For Yury, when even the church is corrupt, it’s time to get going

Supermarket struggle

07/04/2011 19:56

Even the night shift at my neighbourhood store has turned into a hotbed of oppostion, it seems

Condoms and Charlie Bukowski

28/03/2011 20:03

Elena’s philosophy was travel light, dress light – and forget the craziness back home

The guest from hell

21/03/2011 20:33

I suspect many men would have done anything to get Tanya into their bed – I just wanted her to leave

Generation P

14/03/2011 18:39

Larisa was a big fan of Vladimir Putin’s policies on law and order – her price was 5,000 roubles a night

A little window on love and hate

28/02/2011 18:08

Moscow’s street vendors can be rude or kind, but they’d die rather than give up their kiosks

A prisoner of the Caucasus?

21/02/2011 19:38

Football legend Ruud Gullit signed up for Terek Grozny. What was he thinking?

January 2011

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