Chapt. 37 – 1445 words
Shurik exiled – and reprieved
MOSCOW, Jan. 18, 2004 – - 1623 hits

Yuri gets canned – again
Shurik’s plan: TV broadcaster
Irina’s American friends coming
“Milk Dane for as much as possible”
Yegor leaves

Chapt. 32 – 1141 words
Strike Two
PRAGUE, Czechoslovkia, Dec. 27, 2003 -- 1678 hits

We go shopping – Yegor’s pissed
Misha’s still in Prague
Another blow-up with Shurik

Chapt. 34 – 1867 words
Strike th… two-and-a-half
MOSCOW, Jan. 1, 2004 -- 1694 hits

New Year’s Eve
Shurik on again
Off again
On again

Chapt. 13 - 1376 words
“There’s no turning back”: Misha
MOSCOW, Oct. 13, 2003 -- 1900 hits

What’s a lemma?
My students aint dummies
Is there a way back together for me and Misha?

Chapt. 36 – 1751 words
Is it love? Or is it Memorex?
MOSCOW, Jan. 6, 2004 – 1972 hits

Things come unglued again
Yegor’s afraid
Threatens to leave
“Don’t go”
new citizenship law

Chapt. 159 – 1832 words
Sergei loses $ 27,000! Apr. 1st in August
MOSCOW, August 17, 2005 -- 1973 hits

Old story: Where’s Sergei?
Nailing Tioufline?
Avian flu
Siberia melting
Home – without money
Half the rent
Uncle Sasha – another hated cop
April fool!

Chapt. 338
Sciatica for my 82nd birthday
Somewhere in northern Spain, July 11, 2015 – 2056 hits

Sciatica gives me a birthday present I didn't want
Still working on my Spanish residency
Gay in Russia forces column blackout
Methane presence exploding in environment
October will see debt crisis start hitting
Former Moscow boyfriend existing in Ukraine
Greece is latest bankster victim

Chapt. 157 – 2239 words
Stolen wheels; missing bucksi and Sergei
MOSCOW, August 14, 2005 -- 2057 hits

No strokes, no appendectomies, no altzheimer’s
A call from Sergei – 7,000 bucksi?
Wheels fungible in Moscow
Russia, China, plan joint maneuvers
Who’s Parry Brass?
A grand mission!
Pampered tummy, tortured heart

Chapt. 274 – 1826 words
New Year’s: Spain for me, Skids for U.S.?
MOSCOW, December 30, 2007 -- 2085 hits

Russian elections not supposed to be fair
New Year's: Spain for me, collapse for US economy?
Zhorik is jealous; is that good or bad?
Discovering what being a clophus feels like
HAPPY NEW YEAR – May we all survive it!

Chapt. 30 – 1384 words
A rude jolt for the Christmas spirit
MOSCOW, Dec. 19, 2003 -- 2094 hits

BOMZH freezing to death
We’re going to Prague – despite the “B” word
Putin reverses “Evil Empire” role

Chapt. # 92 – 1722 words
Bread and Peace still motivates Russians
MOSCOW, October 25, 2004 –- 2098 hits

Anti-war protest: Bread and peace
Vanya flunks HK Mike’s sugar daddy test
Problems at EE?

Chapt. 281 – 3,061 words
Why women cover their heads in the Russian Church
MOSCOW, April 28, 2008 -- 2123 hits

Why Russian Orthodox women cover their heads
...and women don't become priests in Russia
Sasha again agrees to sex
...and wants to help Zhorik take care of me
Igor’s and my trip to Kiev
...Nearly aborted by deceitful antics
The Red Queen gets a literary agent
...and loses him!

Chapt. # 25 – 1736 words
Temporary flu in Russia; terminal ennui in US
MOSCOW, Nov. 18, 2003 -- 2134 hits

Flu cancels Volodya
Seryozh and I get down to business
Flu also decimates Anton
Americans’ Hypocrisy: Bush vs Putin
Living in Americans’ future

Chapt. 271 – 884 words
Life without Igor restful but empty
MOSCOW, November 19, 2007 -- 2151 hits

No end in sight to Life without Igor
Election circus continues

Chapt. 252 – 3,466 words
New crime: opposing Putin
MOSCOW, June 11, 2007 -- 2155 hits

Igor “plays” one last time before he goes
…which may be for a very long time
…so maybe I’ll go to him
Zhorik again tells me: “Wait for me”
Survival just got a little easier
Sergei bridges the sex gap
Stalinist “Intelligentsia pogrom” returning?
“We’re living in a police state”
Bush doublespeak: “I am a dissident”
College student dissenter may be expelled
Hostage taking a thing of the past?
Stavropol bristling with racial hatred
No revolution, only implosion, says dissident
Red Queen’s Basil a computerized chicken plucker

Chapt. 134 – 2135 words
Putin’s goal – “total control” -- spelled out
MOSCOW, June 7, 2005 –- 2159 hits

Russia will avenge US space weapons
Putin going after print media
His goal: total control
Police get green light for anti-protest brutality
To Stavropol next week?

Chapt. 40 - 1602 words
Knocking the U.S. legal system into a cocked hat
MOSCOW, Jan. 20, 2004 -- 2179 hits

Bush and American justice
Me and Baltimore justice
Doubts about Yegor? Vlad & Yaki
Kremlin censors singers
Sasha’s letter to Olga

Chapt. 42 - 2270 words
Russian hatred; my paranoia
MOSCOW, February 4, 2004 –- 2180 hits

Danish reporter denied entry for Chechnya reporting
Russians’ hatred of Chechnya
FSB complicity in Moscow bombings
Yegor & I celebrate 6th mo. anniversary

Chapt. 54 – 1411 words
Should have read that detour sign
MOSCOW, April 16, 2004 – 2180 hits

Shurik returns – and so does sex
Comedian elected governor – in Russia
“Dumbest thug”
Alyosha gets his wallet stolen on the train
Russia: out of oil in 6 yrs?

Chapt. 47 - 2061 words
Women’s Day with Dima, Volodya, Serge
MOSCOW, March 15, 2004 –- 2184 hits

Women’s day
To Nizhny with Vanya
Sucking Big Seryozh’s big dick