Chapt. 23 - 2027 words
Celebrate the Revolution: Take a Stroll
MOSCOW, Nov. 7, 2003 -- 2858 hits

Revolution Day
Attempted hospital visit to Seryozh
Volodya fixes dinner
Volodya and Shurik meet and mingle
Why Russians don’t like democracy

Chapt. 173 – 2122 words
Computer cutie turns files into “ex-files”!
MOSCOW, November 6, 2005 -- 2573 hits

Mood most foul on Unity Day
After files become “ex-files”
Zhorik returns with a promise but no lick
Money for me and a job for Zhorik
O sole mio! Culinary ecstasy

Chapt. 180 - 2126 words
Christmas brings flu, Zhorik’s firing
MOSCOW, December 25, 2005 – 3077 hits


Santa brings the flu
Zhorik and Sergei have it out
….and Kreutz fires Zhorik
Tanya rekindles old ties
Sergei defends honor and breaks nose
Zhorik resumes old schedule
He’s determined to go to the Army
Duma passes repressive NGO bill
More Russians trust government!
Corruption still Russia’s biggest threat
Kremlin paranoia may get Stass fired

Chapt. 212 – 5,518 words
Conspiracy theory: Putin is American tool!
MOSCOW, August 6, 2006 – 3343 hits

Worsening conditions: “ Putin is a tool of Bush”
Anti-Extremism law aimed at opposition
…but pales in comparison to new Bush plans
Internet brings me dreamboat – for a day?
…But there’s always Alex
…and now Victor!
Zhorik emerges and wants $ 500 toy

Chapt. 44 - 1846 words
Cold day for birthdays, good year for love
MOSCOW, February 12, 2004 – 2873 hits

Another layer – of clothes and love; the best age
Dad’s and Abe Lincoln’s b’days
Visit from Vanya
Yegor: without you I’d be…dead?
Oil problems – and worse, money problems

Chapt. 45 – 1486 words
Celebrating the Red Army and Maslanitsa
MOSCOW, February 23, 2004 – 2423 hits

Red Army Day
and Mazlanitsa
New student Ruslan
Lecture on peak oil

Chapt. 264 – 3,754 words
Craig: Scratch a homophobe and you’ll find…
MOSCOW, September 9, 2007 -- 2522 hits

Fall schedule kicks in
…And disrupts Red Queen chronicle
Igor – and Denis -- back In Moldova
Another Russian army hazing victim
…besides Zhorik
…whose LD notes are becoming more affectionate
Russia post-Putin: More democratic?
Journalist’s murder “solved” – like Litvinenko’s
The Larry Craigs and Ted Haggards –
…Why? The Red Queen’s theory

Chapt. 272 - 2,493 words
Contrived vote paves way for endless Putin rule
MOSCOW, December 8, 2007 -- 2412 hits

Election goes by script
Few of my students voted
New resolve to scuttle twins
But I need them for the move
18-yr.-old untouchable frustrates life
Going back to English Exchange a possibility?

Chapt. 286 – 3,085 wordsbeen spending every
Corruption victims: Keep what we’ve got
MOSCOW, June 22, 2008 -- 2564 hits

Zhorik's evasive answers raise suspicions
Despite costs, Russians prefer existing corruption
Yeltsin era photographer's videos confiscated
Dire warnings of "peak food," famines
Russia’s ag potential greater, but great obstacles
The eXile dies

Chapt. 308 - 2 166 words
Christmas in Spain – Feliz Navidades a Todos :-)
Somewhere in Northern Spain, December 25, 2010 -- 2502 hits

Christmas alone – not half bad
Spanish Christmas tradition quite different
A call from Vlad
Druzhka really going back to Moscow
Max, Basil, reply to Xmas e-mails
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