Archive for July, 2007
As those of you who live in a foreign country know, it is the “small victories” which make all the frustrations of a different culture seem irrelevant. This week I had three such small victories:
1. I “discovered” that it IS POSSIBLE to buy Sugar-Free Red Bull. Red Bull mixed with vodka and a twist of […]
Here’s a photo of the actual store for a local Krasnodar branch of a national Apple licensed reseller called re:Store. The store is located inside of the mall Krasnaya Ploshad (trans: “Red Square”). When driving up to the mall, stay right, pass the McDonald’s drive-through window on your left, and park behind the mall. The […]
It’s Sunday afternoon and I am in the office catching-up on some work after being in southern France most of this past week looking at golf courses and interviewing a golf course architect. Here’s a photo of one of our favorite courses in southern France. It’s called Gassin Golf & Country Club.
In a few […]
Travel on the streets of Krasnodar just got a whole lot easier. All of Krasnodar is talking about a “crazy” new taxi service called Maria Rafaela Taxi, which is, gasp, using Mercedes B Class 170 white minivans. The taxi service which sponsored a music concert in the main square to celebrate its launch yesterday, should […]
Kubano Naberezhnaya (Kuban riverbank) is quickly becoming Krasnodar’s most exclusive residential neighborhood. The neighborhood is best known for it’s huge park which stretches for a couple kilometers along the bank of the Kuban River. Recently, the park has seen a large influx of investment with the building of a large aqua park, new entertainment rides, […]
The diplomatic poker game between Britain and Russia just got a whole lot more interesting.
The announcement on Wednesday by “… Metropolitan Police (where it was) officially confirmed that a Russian man had been detained June 21 on suspicion of plotting to kill a prominent London-based Moscow critic (aka: Boris Berezovsky. You have to love […]
If you do not live in Moscow, the name, Araz Agalarov (51), may not yet be familiar to you. It will be soon. Mr. Agalarov is a Moscow-based real estate developer who has built a number of projects which despite initial skepticism of their financial viability have then gone on to exceed all expectations. His […]
So Britain’s Prime Minister Gordon Brown and Foreign Minister David Miliband have decided that since Russia won’t do what they want that they are going to throw a hissy fit and threaten the Kremlin with a bunch of expulsions and threats about non-cooperation on visas. Whatever.
I hope the Kremlin simply says to 10 Downing Street, […]
We have arrived safely in Krasnodar. The weather is hot, hot, hot (95 degrees plus)!
Here’s a detailed article from Eurasia Daily Monitor discussing the proposed development of Russian Black Sea ports. Click the following link to read the article titled RUSSIA LAUNCHES MASSIVE PROGRAM TO DEVELOP BLACK SEA PORTS By Vladimir Socor. The article was printed on Friday, July 13, 2007.
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