Tag Archives: Georgia

Relief from the news: Phillips' Parallel Lines brings a bit of beautiful sci-fi to Moscow

Posted on April 12, 2010 by

It’s been a nutty couple of weeks in Moscow, with foreign reporters starting to joke that the August news cycle — responsible for everything from the 1991 putsch, the 1998 financial meltdown, and the 2008 war in Georgia — has … Continue reading →

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Louisiana comes to Moscow: couple dies while sexing in a car

Posted on March 16, 2010 by

Last night, a Moscow couple decided to get romantical and have sex in their car, which was still parked in a little pre-fab portable garage known in Russia as a “shell,” because it’s made of corrugated iron. Anyway, it was … Continue reading →

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Get mad, get even, get the train

Posted on December 15, 2009 by

This afternoon, some 2o0 refugees from Georgia, Ingushetia and Chechnya got so sick of the horrible conditions in a Polish refugee camp — the rotten food, the non-existent medical care — that they got on a train bound for Dresden, … Continue reading →

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