“Self Hating [insert name of ethnic group]” is a very common phenomenon in many countries but the more I live in Russia the more I see that no one loathes their own ethnicity more than the self-hating Russian."

In Moscow you'd be surprised what businesses spring up in the old basements of buildings. In fact the other day I was in a very luxuriously ( Read more... )

It's a shame, but just yesterday I found out the full meaning and the background of the famous Thomas Jefferson quote: "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants". Unfortunately in Russia people often interpret it as some brutal notion of democracy, built on blood of its citizens, because some ( Read more... )