Chapt. 19 – 2161 words
From Russia, With Loves -- to Prague
MOSCOW, Oct. 28, 2003 -- 2305 hits

Zhenya returns
First snow of the season & trip to the tourist agency

Chapt. 35 – 1533 words
Freedom of religion – as long as it’s Orthodox
MOSCOW, Jan. 5, 2004 -- 2410 hits

Pravo-Slaviy religion back in power
Art violates Orthodox dogma…
Korean Methodists
Shurik fights over budget…happy ending

Chapt. 120 – 2218 words
Fantasy comes alive: sex with Zhorik
MOSCOW, April 10, 2005 – 2900 hits

There is a god! Sex with Zhorik
Its chronology
And I’ll make Andrei’s dream come true
PiKA voices from the past
Alen Ginzberg makes me a hero
Hot-shit “Christian” Delay’s finger caught in the Russian till
“Peak Oil has hit!”

Chapt. 153 – 2511 words
Fantasies suffer bad run: Regime change coming?
MOSCOW, August 5, 2005 -- 2248 hits

Khodorkovsky: Regime change ahead
Zhorik romance not according to plan
John Smith fantasies: Another lead balloon
No gay parade in Moscow
Vanya headed to Crimea
A call from Sasha

Chapt. 178 – 1729 words
Frolicking in chocolate and roses
MOSCOW, December 12, 2005 -- 2235 hits

Winter hits; so does my first cold
Bliss persists
Yegor “passes” some more courses
Me – a professor in Ptomkin U?
Duma again rolls over for Putin

Chapt. 241 – 3,810 words
Fade out Moldova, fade in sex
MOSCOW, March 26, 2007 -- 2727 hits

Bout with the bank machine – moment of truth
…But cash limit still poses problems
Traveling “platz cart” with the hoi polloi
Home at last to normal state of disorder
In the meantime, back at the ranch…spring and elections
Police forcibly quell second protest march
Igor celebrates with double baths; sex resumes
Zhorik’s leave status up in the air
Drunk found dead in zoo cage after fight with owl
Owners of vicious dogs headed for the couch?

Chapt. 46 – 1690 words
First day of spring in Russia
MOSCOW, March 1, 2004 -- 2491 hits

First day of spring
State of my being
Toothache
Putin’s bulldozer election campaign

Chapt. 300 - 1,813 words
Fiesta Queen
Galicia, somewhere in northern Spain, April 7, 2010 -- 2622 hits

I'm now an illegal alien.
Friday was 'el Dia de San José in Spain.
I continue to get e-mails from my friends and students in Russia.
Just got back from Lisbon.

Chapt. 302 - 1,776 words
Fiesta Queen
Galicia, somewhere in northern Spain, May 17, 2010 -- 3013 hits

I've got a bloody toothache!
Speaking of birthdays, Drushka's is tomorrow.
I had an e-mail from Misha.
Most Russians think bribery is the best way to solve problems.

Chapt. 309 - 2 393 words
Fighting the bureaucracy alone
Somewhere in Northern Spain, January 12, 2011 -- 2485 hits

Druzhka back in Moscow
Bureaucratic Spain
I lose my keys
And buy a computer desk – still unassembled
All I wanted was a potato masher

Chapt. 331 - 2 797 words
From Sasha at last: Yes, he’s coming -- sometime
Somewhere in northern Spain, Dec. 10, 2012 – 3520 hits

Fiesta Queen