When you live in a region where winter continues more than six months, you are forced to survive (at least, you need to kill your time while people from other climate zones are swimming, surfing, biking and hiking). Continue reading
Daily Life
Medicine services in Russia
Have you ever watched Michael Moore’s documentary film ‘Sicko”? It’s quite interesting as devoted to medical issues of different countries (and we, people, are always curious about different sides of living abroad, aren’t we?). Actually, I wonder if everything mentioned in that film represents the real facts, without distortion? Something seems a bit strange to me, and some facts I just can’t understand as I live in another context.
Having watched this film, I decided to write a post about the Russian health system (and to compare it with other countries). So, maybe you’ll be confused as much as me. Continue reading
Russian Housing
People’s tendency to take phrases (and photos) out of context always puzzles me. Not long ago I found an interesting discussion on Internet where one man insisted that there are only old, awful houses in Russia, showing one of the ‘khrushevka’ photos from my blog. It won’t surprise me, if this man has never been to Russia.
Auto politeness or Russian driving style
Not long ago our friend came back from Bangkok (he had been living here for more than 1 year) and we discussed some peculiarities of drivers of these two countries. So, this text will be the start of the driving theme posts.
Daily biking
2 days ago we took a short ride because the temperature seemed to be going up (a bit). Yes, I hope summer has finally come.
I did tell you there are no special bike paths in our city and in many others, so, if you want to ride a bike, you have several ways out: Continue reading
Notes on Siberian weather
As you know Russia is a big country which stretches for thousands of kilometers and covers different climate zones. That’s why weather in regions may differ. Actually, Siberian summer didn’t please the last 2 or 3 years. Last year, for example, it was snowing on the first day of summer. Of course, snow melted away in a couple of hours, but, as Russians say, “an aftertaste remains”. Continue reading
Seasons
In spite of what I can write here about negative aspects of living in Russia, I love its climat and nature…
Offroad in Russia | Siberian Auto Moto Festival
Among all the nations you can find absolutely different people with various interests: cinema, music, clubs, travelling… Here, in Russia, I know many people who like offroading (possibly it’s caused by the roads quality :) ). And we also like offroad in some degree – the fear to be left without a car brings us back to senses when needed :) By the way, it’s our Pajero II – almost alive!
Novosibirsk Tolmachevo Airport
Despite the fact that the airport name contains the word “international”, it is really small in comparison with other airports I’ve visited. On this pic you may see the airport terminal A intended for domestic flights.
Russian educational system in brief
While writing my graduation thesis, I decided to tell about Russian education system. I suppose it will be better to divide these theme into several posts, because there are too much information.
Let’s start with the general information about the major institutions of the system.