Why you should still go to warm countries? A Gazeta.Ru correspondent was a downshifter and found out from her own experience how to decide to spend the cold season in warm lands.
Not all fruits of progress are equally beneficial. Wide access to the internet, ease of website creation, availability of free online dictionaries and browser translators have led to a deplorable…
I came to India when I was five months pregnant. Taught by Russian experience, I planned to register at some medical facility, get a medical card there, and be monitored until the very birth…
Russian traveler Yevgeny Ganopolsky told how to independently travel to the French Riviera and save money, why it is better to give up vacation in August, and where to eat abroad.
Wishing to make our wedding beautiful, we spent a long time choosing a venue. A well-decorated banquet hall, a luxurious table – of course, we wanted all that. But all the options offered to us…
Before moving to Berlin, finding a home did not seem like such a daunting task. I imagined that I would zip through the streets, vigilantly inspect all the apartments kindly opened for me for mold…
Having flown to Portugal once again, I always first rush to the ocean to say hello. How different its 'voice' at Cabo da Roca is from all others! It replies exactly, roaring that it is glad too… The…
At the end of last year, as a 4th-year language student, I desperately wanted to go work abroad. Our dreary reality was getting tiresome; I craved new experiences, to develop my talents and make the…
I think that a second-class railway carriage with three-berth compartments is absent from Prague's 'Museum of Medieval Torture' solely due to chronological inconsistency. Of course, the carriage is…
"Russian American Dream" is not quite the same as the "American Dream" in the original. As a rule, initially Russians' desires focus on satisfying material wants – a car, a house, credit cards.
Dmitry Kokhmanyuk graduated from the Cybernetics Department of Kyiv University and left for the USA in 1996. For the third year he has been working as a network system administrator at a software…