Category: Russia
Dubna, Russia Finlandisation may be behind us (in more ways than one) but Russia now lies ahead of us – as does one more visit to the chemistry lab. …
TURNING BREAD INTO BEER Ail unlikely resurgence in Russia’s bread-based, low-alcohol beer, Kvass, has seen the drink rapidly go from old-fashioned to new and fashionable. Kvass is made using …
Bhutan is situated in the eastern Himalayas spreading in an area of 1800 square mile. Bhutan has been an independent country since 450 CE, in the north of Bhutan …
Trans – Siberian Railway route is the biggest in the world and is around 9,300 kilometers long. It passes through 2 continents, 12 regions and 87 cities. It joins …
Russia is really a nation of nations The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics with a variety of ethnic cultures under the Soviet banner. Actually there are some 185 different …
Petrodvorets, twenty miles west of Leningrad, is Peter’s version of Versailles. The palace has twenty-five hundred acres of formal gardens running down to the Gulf of Finland. It is …
Class divisions in a classless society become immediately apparent. Ranking bureaucrats, research scientists, and military are eligible for the best of everything dachas (country vacation homes), vacations, travel, clothing, …