Alexander Holbreich» Russia http://alexander.holbreich.org Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud. ~Hermann Hesse Wed, 01 Feb 2012 22:44:21 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Winter amusement – the Russian wayhttp://alexander.holbreich.org/2010/02/winter-amusement/ http://alexander.holbreich.org/2010/02/winter-amusement/#comments Wed, 10 Feb 2010 23:32:11 +0000 shuron http://alexander.holbreich.org/?p=543 What should young people do at a long, cold, rich of snow and boring winter. A winter like in Magadan town.
Here the answer ;)

Never heard of Magadan?
Magadan is associated with far far east of Russia. It is associated with cold and people-less places, taiga, beautiful nature and interesting people. Of course this Region is famous for former Soviet GULAGs too.

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Vyacheslav Nikonov

If you live somewhere in the “West”, you may often hear or read something bad about Russians. What you hear and read is mostly “something like truth”.  Mostly these “news” are presented in a way, so that they cause bad opinnion about Russia. I personally don’t like it.

Therefore I found the following citation interesting, funny and truth. Vyacheslav Nikonov, a prominent Russian commentator, has quoted his Canadian friend, who came up with the following explanation of Russophobia:

The main problem is that these Russians have white skin. If they had been green, or pink, or came from Mars…or had
flowers sticking out of their ears, then everybody would have said – well, these people are
different, like Turks, or Chinese, or Japanese. We have no questions about the Japanese. They
are different, their civilisation is different. But these Russians … they are white but they have
totally different brains … which is thoroughly suspicious.

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]]> http://alexander.holbreich.org/2009/01/about-russians/feed/ 4 Russia defeat Netherlands (3:1)http://alexander.holbreich.org/2008/06/russia-defeat-netherlands-31/ http://alexander.holbreich.org/2008/06/russia-defeat-netherlands-31/#comments Sat, 21 Jun 2008 21:52:25 +0000 shuron http://alexander.holbreich.org?p=175 Another off topic of me. I never thought that I will write any word about football in this blog. I’m not a football fan at all. But that Russian football (soccer) team on EM 2008 gained my attention.

Half an our ago Russia defeat Netherlands with 3 to 1! Realy good play!

The game against sweden and today’s game against Netherland had so much dynamic and tension! I hope they willl continue and will reach finale!

Congratulation Russian team, well done!

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