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The Great Firewall Of China
Is your blog site blocked in China? A trip to this site will give you your no no rating in nanoseconds. The Great Firewall Of China tells you something about media censorship. Because nobody’s...
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What’s Kournikova’s Bra Size?
This week, I was pleased to discover redtape.ru. It’s a lively discussion forum that migrated from the old Moscow-based expat.ru. I never caught up with all the reasons why, but suffice it to say that...
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The Exile, Expats And Excommunication
Applying for a visa extension? Just a couple of weeks after The Exile was reportedly run out of town, BP has withdrawn the last of its foreign staff. Overall, there’s a picture of an open season on...
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Workers Of The World . . . Uninvite
Since my previous post on the expat exodus from Russia, I received some mail and insight into the phenomenon. I don’t use the word phenomenon lightly. To add hard numbers, HVS, a global recruitment...
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Ripped For Calling Russia
How do you like this mailshot, entitled: ‘The True Costs Of Calling Abroad’. Well, it attracted me. It’s all in cyrillic. So, I naturally assumed it is cheap to call Russia with O2. But nooooo . . . ....
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Red Star
SuperHeroes were the mainstay of comic strips – and for so long that generations of Bat Girls and Sons Of Robin had to be invented. With demand exceeding supply, it was only a matter of time before...
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The Russians Aren’t Coming
Despite the fabled sexual exploits of Russian Women, it isn’t resulting in a whole heap of babies. At least every couple of weeks you will read some news story about Russia’s demographic meltdown. Yet...
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Branding The World Financial Crisis
Trendy Russian Design agency, Playoff Creative Services, has developed the corporate identity for the World Financial Crisis. Hat tip to poster Thorny at Redtape.ru. Click for bigger images. (It was of...
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