Not many people are aware that all Kaliningrad’s tram drivers are women. And drop dyev gorgeous they are too.
Honestly, who needs a dating agency when you can just leg it down to the depot? Fortunately, Americans need an agency for everything and can’t get anywhere in Europe without their hands held. So my ‘Tramway To [...]

The redeeming feature of Kaliningrad, like so many places in Russia, is that there’s no shortage of women. Help yourself. Take two.
If you’re shaven-headed and shorted, girls will flock on to your arm like falcons. If you’re naturally bald and trousered, just pretend you have money. There’s many a young dyev ready to play ’sugar [...]

I had occasion to look at my all-time top three posts. That’s because the Copydude celebrates its first blogaversary this week.
The Bronze went to: ‘Why Russian Women Don’t Marry Russian Men‘. This shows the value of helpful and informative posts. Even Russian women read this to find out why they don’t do it.
The [...]

Vlad and Valentina. Pillow-talk tactics

Copydude’s Moscow correspondent, nfb, has revealed that plans to defuse the Russia-Estonia crisis were underway a whole year before it even started.
Well, isn’t that just typical of chess-playing Russians! Always so many moves ahead.
As long ago as June, 2006, Kremlin associates were negotiating to buy Estonia, starting with the Tallinn [...]

The White Space Gallery is one of the places Londongrad’s Russians go to get their culture fix. It often features the work of lesser known Russian photographers.
The photographers here aren’t known at all. For its current event, ‘Being Beauteous’, the curator assembled rare and unusual photos from Soviet Russia, all around the theme of the [...]

Today, everyone is remembering Yeltsin as the President of meltdown and poverty in Russia.
He not only presided over capital flight but also female flight. The late nineties saw the heyday of the Russian Bride exodus when numbers doubled almost year on year. Well, if all the money in Russia had been laundered abroad, there [...]

This season in Kaliningrad the look will be leggy and tacky. Just like last year and the year before. If you’re hitting the beach, light colours in light suede lend that summer feel.

Photo by gaech. More at the Flickr Kaliningrad Pool

One of the pleasures of visiting Russia is that there are just so many single women. It’s like they’re all on special offer. But then you get to thinking: ‘what’s wrong with all these girls?’

Coming across this ad featuring Anna Kournikova, two things struck me . . .
The first is that the most vehement Russophobes on the net always seem to be women. Think they might be jealous?
You can say that Russian women have a superior knack of flaunting what they’ve got. And then I remembered that, [...]

Winston Churchill called the sailors of the Arctic Convoys, on the Barents Sea, ‘the bravest men afloat’. Between 1941 and 1945, they ran the gauntlet of U-boats and Luftwaffe with supplies of food and munitions critical to keeping Russians alive and in the war.
The men were brave, certainly. While a regular WW2 soldier faced a [...]