There is a small Korean colony in Novgorod.
Although the majority of Russia’s Korean immigrants have ghettoised Volgograd, a bunch of separatists moved north to Novgorod’s leafy ulitsas. Their second home is here at the Asia cafe, where you can discover the quintessence of Korean cuisine.
The decaying premises are called locally in Korean, ‘the house [...]

Friday came and went and so did the man from Novgorod Telekom - without hooking up my Mac to the net.
It seems that only one modem salesman has ever hit this town. That would have been the D-Link man, and D-Link can’t or won’t do Mac drivers.
Novgorod Telekom’s man used the ‘N’ word [...]

A huge Real Estate billboard greeted me as I pulled into Novgorod. It promises the all-Russian dream to a young couple - their very own pre-fab concrete Soviet home.

Yes, perhaps the girl in this advertisement does look a little naive - if not the recent recipient of a lobotomy. Nevertheless, I still contacted [...]