By Rick Chapo / Published on September 26th, 2007 / Travel
Standing in the airport in San Diego, I began to wonder exactly how long it was going to take to get to the city of Chita in Siberia. The combination of a vodka hangover, three flights, one [..]
By Rick Chapo / Published on September 26th, 2007 / Travel
In the first two parts of this series, we covered my decision to move from San Diego to Chita, Siberia to be a professor at Chita State Technical University. We pick up the story aboard the [..]
By Rick Chapo / Published on September 24th, 2007 / Travel
In this continuing series, we cover my decision to move from San Diego to Chita, Siberia to be a professor at Chita State Technical University. We pick up the story aboard the flight from [..]
By Rick Chapo / Published on September 24th, 2007 / Travel
In this continuing series, we cover my move from San Diego to Chita, Siberia to be a professor at Chita State Technical University. We pick up the story outside the airport in Khabarovsk, [..]
By Marina Smiley / Published on April 14th, 2007 / Travel
To many world-wide travelers seeking adventure, the Russian Far East is a very desirable place to visit, and of course if you are going to visit this region, you do not want to miss seeing the [..]
By Furqan Shaikh / Published on November 8th, 2007 / Health & Medical
Russia and ChechnyaThis is in response to Mr Vladimir Mikhaylov's letter (Aug 1). Firstly, I would like to praise his statement about the ongoing successful development of bilateral relations [..]
By Marina Smiley / Published on March 23th, 2007 / Travel
To many world-wide travelers seeking adventure, the Russian
Far East is a very desirable place to visit, and of course
if you are going to visit this region, you do not want to miss seeing [..]
By Marina Smiley / Published on March 22th, 2007 / Travel
Among the mysteries of the Russian language there is an expression "Sitting on Kamchatka" which in school slang, this idiom means, "to sit in the back row of the classroom, far enough from the [..]
By Marina Smiley / Published on March 21th, 2007 / Travel
One of the most spectacular and unspoiled places on earth, which attracts tourists worldwide, is lake Baikal, the deepest lake in the world.
This lake is considered to have the purest and most [..]
By Rick Chapo / Published on February 23th, 2007 / Travel
In this continuing series, we cover my move from San Diego to Chita, Siberia to be a professor at Chita State Technical University. We pick up the story going to the train station in Khabarovsk [..]
By TravelMake.com / Published on October 5th, 2006 / Travel
WHAT IS IT: The so called "Golden Ring of Russia" is a symbolical ring connecting historical towns and cities to the North-West of Moscow. They represent 1,000 years of rich Russian history [..]
By TravelMake.com / Published on October 5th, 2006 / Travel
Sergiev Posad (founded in 1345, population 115,000) - the spiritual center of Russia, residence of the Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church, where the remains of the first national saint, [..]
By Rick Chapo / Published on April 18th, 2006 / Travel
“You must really hate this job.” That’s what my boss said when I told him I was moving from San Diego to Siberia for a year. In reality, I was bored and looking for something that would be [..]
By Sergey Talpa / Published on April 28th, 2006 / Business
The new law "Special Protective, Antidumping and Import Compensatory Measures" differs from the old one by the fact that it fully complies with the WTO (World Trade Organization) standards. It is [..]
By Sergey Talpa / Published on April 5th, 2006 / Business
The Russian car industry experiences the most severe crisis of the last years. For the First Quarter of 2005 the sales of Russian automobiles have fallen down by 14 % while imported car sales [..]
By Annas Agency / Published on March 1th, 2006 / Family
BackgroundAfter spending countless hours and large sums of money finding that special someone, you may think that the large part of your search is over – this is not so. It will now be your job [..]
By Iren Chernoff / Published on January 24th, 2006 / Travel
Do you agree that the best lessons are lessons given to you by other people who have already made some mistakes so that you wouldn’t repeat them? We are going to have a detailed observation of a [..]