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25/12/2008 | Moscow News №51 2008
Some sobering comments on vodka, the notorious Russian toast, and other surprises…
By Robert Bridge
First, if you want to drink with the natives you must understand that the Russian people never say "Na zdaroviya" before they toss back their favorite firewater.
30/01/2009 | Moscow News №03 2009
Letter from the Editor
Robert Bridge
I would imagine that most newspaper editors (as well as any person who is brave enough to work in the media business, or even open up a newspaper to read, for that matter) have a strong inner desire to help improve the world, at least in some minute way. It sounds like a ridiculous, almost childish notion, of course, but it is an inevitable feeling nevertheless.
18/12/2008 | Moscow News №50 2008
English-language daily snubs Russia Miss World
By Robert Bridge
On Monday morning, during my rush-hour trudge to the metro, I discovered the semi-sensational news that Kseniya Sukhinova, 21, Siberia's native princess, had won the Miss World 2008 competition that was held in Johannesburg over the weekend. A cause for celebration? Well, maybe for some...
Russians must know a thing or two about the mysterious flat
11/12/2008 | Moscow News №49 2008
Russia: a riddle stuck in an apartment surrounded by a dacha
By Robert Bridge
I am presently at wits end, trying to wrap my heavily taxed intellect around this great bear called Russia. But mind you, my brain is not so big, and it has not been an easy evening.
Searching for eternal salvation in a department store © AP
05/12/2008 | Moscow News №48 2008
Black Friday
By Robert Bridge
It finally happened. America's most passionate 24 hours of shopping, Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving when companies hope to turn a profit for the entire year, has offered up its first sacrificial victim to the pagan gods of consumerism.
Is no place safe from the invasion of electronic gadgets? © RIA Novosti
21/11/2008 | "American in Moscow" by Robert Bridge
Another senseless Neo-Luddite rant
By Robert Bridge
Excuse me, these moments come about once a year when all the chirping gadgets become too much
A typing machine
14/11/2008 | Moscow News №45 2008
Media blame game against Russia begins to backfire
By Robert Bridge
The western media machine retreats on its claims that Russia was to blame in Georgia, but other inaccuracies remain
Can Barack Obama restore the American Dream? © AP
30/10/2008 | Moscow News №43 2008
Can Barack Obama Fix America?
By Robert Bridge
On Tuesday, November 4, come hell or high water, much of the world will be tele-transfixed by an event of monumental importance: the 56th consecutive US presidential election, this one between Democrat Barack Obama and the Republican John McCain.
A woman
24/10/2008 | Moscow News №42 2008
How to Survive in Moscow during a crisis
By Robert Bridge
Amidst the smoldering ruins of financial fallout, I decided to drown my sorrow and smoking Visa card in that modern lake of hedonism known somewhat hyperbolically as The Mega Mall in the southeast of the metropolis.
Capitalism gets ugly
16/10/2008 | Moscow News №41 2008
Capitalism gets ugly
By Robert Bridge
Having just run the gauntlet of the latest financial crash with the shirts still on our backs, albeit nicely wrinkled and sweat-stained, perhaps it is an appropriate time to poke some fun at this icky little ‘ism' that wants to devour us all.
09/10/2008 | Moscow News №40 2008
America can afford another party
By Robert Bridge
After a long battle to secure democracy in the United States, it somehow became fashionable among the Founding Fathers in the early days of the republic to exclude all "dangerous factions" from the narrow field of political players.
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