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Going to the country
Smothered by the cold mucus of Petersburg’s wet winter weather, we retreated to the country for the weekend. There we found the real Russian winter. We rented a dacha near Myulepelto, a small town far...
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Nizhny Novgorod photos: Beer shack and more
Ulitsa Bolshaya Pachorskaya, Nizhny Novgorod. The friendly neighborhood beer shack: Malt liquor and snacks by day, inconspicuous run-down cottage by night. I'm confident they'd be able to shutter up in...
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Night on the Neva
Two shots on the River Neva. Top: The Winter Palace. Below: A club across from the northern side of Vaska (Vasilyevsky Ostrov) island.
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Into India
Looking out over Delhi, old and new. My first day in India began far too early. Well before dawn, wild dogs began barking, and then a lilting human cry started chipping in every few minutes; if I had...
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Ideal shitty job = Rickshaw driver
My future occupation? Driving in India is fun. It’s like playing a videogame, in the sense that Indians drive like they’re playing “Need for Speed” with an unlimited number of game-overs. They’ll...
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Maslenitsa
We witnessed the traditional burning of the Maslenitsa "chuchilo," or scarecrow, at some touristy old-country reconstruction outside Petersburg. This week is the Russian folk festival “Maslenitsa,”...
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Into Georgia (and Back Out Again)
Apologies for the absence; I’ve been traveling in Georgia, that mysterious little post-Soviet Eden on the Black Sea. And as post-Soviet things tend to do, the republic is slowly crumbling, from...
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Ninth of May (Victory Day) Photo
Alexander Belinky, the St. Petersburg Times staff photographer, gave me some of his best photos from over the years, which I will be putting up time to time on Eagle and the Bear. I’m leaving St....
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Summer Garden closed this summer
Here’s another Alexander Belinky photo, this one from inside the Summer Garden, which has been closed all summer due to “technical reasons.” Absolutely ludicrous and unexcusable, to shut down a...
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Sovok
"A one-percent increase in productive labor by the workers of the preparation section will result in 660 pairs of semimanufactured product in excess of the plan per 24 hour period." See the rest of the...
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