http://amerikanka.blog.dada.net/ Wed, 18 Apr 2007 00:56:11 +0200 Dada.net snegurochka 2007-04-18T00:49:00Z 2007-04-18T00:49:00Z http://amerikanka.blog.dada.net/post/349728/Newsflash++-+Moscow%27s+Domodedovo+airport+sucks

Guess who ranked #1?  ICN!

Second year in a row.  It came in first in all four categories in which it qualified.

I love Icheon Seoul airport.... ]]>

snegurochka 2007-03-14T00:21:00Z 2007-03-14T00:21:00Z http://amerikanka.blog.dada.net/post/333245/Global+Climate+Change+Making+the+Sun+Rise+Earlier

Inuit seek answers to Arctic sun quirks


I have a lot of photos and some video to post from a recent visit by Russian environmentalists to Oregon and the SF Bay ... ]]>

snegurochka 2007-02-27T05:57:00Z 2007-02-27T05:57:00Z http://amerikanka.blog.dada.net/post/328678/Two+Events+with+Russia%27s+Top+Environmentalists--in+SF+36+and+38

Please join us!

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The World Affairs Council of North... ]]>

snegurochka 2007-02-07T02:50:00Z 2007-02-07T02:50:00Z http://amerikanka.blog.dada.net/post/323492/OK%2C+the+Orange+Snow+Wasn%27t+Toxic+-+Yay

Orange snow in West Siberia not toxic (RIA Novosti, 02/02/07)

http://en.rian.ru/russia/20070202/60081891.html

The yellow-orange snow that fell in a West Siberian region Wednesday contains no toxic substances, experts said Friday. "Experts have es... ]]>

snegurochka 2007-02-05T20:11:00Z 2007-02-05T20:11:00Z http://amerikanka.blog.dada.net/post/323173/Poor+Omsk%21

Russia probes smelly orange snow ]]>

snegurochka 2007-01-25T03:12:57Z 2007-01-25T03:12:57Z http://amerikanka.blog.dada.net/post/319937/15+Minutes+of+Fame

I just did my first radio interview as an environmental campaigner! It will air tomorrow evening on the national environmental radio show "Ecotalk" on Air America, the AM liberal talk radio channel. I was asked to talk about the Sakhalin Campaign.

In... ]]>

snegurochka 2007-01-04T21:01:00Z 2007-01-04T21:01:00Z http://amerikanka.blog.dada.net/post/314943/Who+knew+the+Russian+word+for+Tungsten+would+make+me+want+to+cry

This is not what comes to mind for me when I hear the Russian word for tungsten, but this is apparently the rock that the horse "Volfram" was named after.  How could such a pretty word like Volfram translate to tungsten?  But it does... ]]>

snegurochka 2007-01-02T15:15:00Z 2007-01-02T15:15:00Z http://amerikanka.blog.dada.net/post/314554/Moral+Damage%3A+Sakhalin

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snegurochka 2006-12-29T00:32:00Z 2006-12-29T00:32:00Z http://amerikanka.blog.dada.net/post/314557/Why+Mess+with+Belarus

I am confused about why Russia is being such a hardass on the only Former Soviet Republic that wanted to stay in the Soviet Union.

Georgia and Ukraine, I see that, but Belarus? ]]>

snegurochka 2006-12-27T05:19:00Z 2006-12-27T05:19:00Z http://amerikanka.blog.dada.net/post/313249/Missive+from+the+Frozen+Tundra

My sister works in Manhattan for the EPA, and in the EPA world this ... ]]>

snegurochka 2006-12-23T00:40:13Z 2006-12-23T00:40:13Z http://amerikanka.blog.dada.net/post/312692/Gde++-+Ursula%27s+World

There are a few early formative influences that got me thinking about the Soviet Union. One of these was Sting's hit single "Russians," and another was the movie "Red Dawn," and the other big influence was Ursula LeGuin's novel "The Dispossessed." I h... ]]>

snegurochka 2006-12-22T03:36:00Z 2006-12-22T03:36:00Z http://amerikanka.blog.dada.net/post/312467/That+crazy+dictator+is+dead+-+what+next

Another chaotic Central Asian country that most US Americ... ]]>

snegurochka 2006-12-21T00:14:48Z 2006-12-21T00:14:48Z http://amerikanka.blog.dada.net/post/312179/%261043%3B%261091%3B%261075%3B%261083%3B%261091%3B%261077%3B%261084%3B%261089%3B%261103%3B+-+Shall+we+Google

One of the founders of Google was born in Russia, but Google is still having trouble breaking into the Russian market. ]]>

snegurochka 2006-12-20T07:22:00Z 2006-12-20T07:22:00Z http://amerikanka.blog.dada.net/post/311926/Putting+the+PARTY+back+in+Communist+Party%21

Woo hoo!

Still available in "girlie tee"!... ]]>

snegurochka 2006-12-17T22:28:20Z 2006-12-17T22:28:20Z http://amerikanka.blog.dada.net/post/311322/AMERIKANKA

snegurochka 2006-12-14T01:54:00Z 2006-12-14T01:54:00Z http://amerikanka.blog.dada.net/post/310438/Skype+Goes+Pro

Skype’s free phone call plan will soon have annual fee (New York Times, 12/13/06).


"The new annual fee for unlimited calling, while still nominal compared with other Internet calling plans, is part of a broader strategy by eBay to e... ]]>

snegurochka 2006-12-12T22:32:00Z 2006-12-12T22:32:00Z http://amerikanka.blog.dada.net/post/310169/Alkhalalalalai%21++-+Send+over+the+women+with+big+breasts%21

"We want women with big breast... ]]>

snegurochka 2006-12-11T23:56:00Z 2006-12-11T23:56:00Z http://amerikanka.blog.dada.net/post/309860/What+the+hell+is+polygyria

The word looked like poligia, but all I cou... ]]>

snegurochka 2006-12-07T00:16:00Z 2006-12-07T00:16:00Z http://amerikanka.blog.dada.net/post/308647/G7+%2B+G77+%2B+Russia+%3D+

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snegurochka 2006-12-05T05:21:00Z 2006-12-05T05:21:00Z http://amerikanka.blog.dada.net/post/308052/Zagreb+is+Nearer+Than+You+Think

1 - my friend and sometime fling Vlasta from... ]]>

snegurochka 2006-11-30T23:43:00Z 2006-11-30T23:43:00Z http://amerikanka.blog.dada.net/post/307035/Dusty+Old+Photos+of+the+Altai

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snegurochka 2006-11-30T23:00:00Z 2006-11-30T23:00:00Z http://amerikanka.blog.dada.net/post/307010/Sosnovka+2004

Ira Bogdan and her dog Gretta.
















Me and Gretta.


Can you believe this is the Russian Far East in September?&n... ]]>

snegurochka 2006-11-30T18:07:00Z 2006-11-30T18:07:00Z http://amerikanka.blog.dada.net/post/306901/Russian+for+%22why+the+whole+damn+thing+went+to+hell%22

saw it first in the Katzner dictionary and then corroberated it in the
on-line (woohoo!) Ozhegov dictionary.


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snegurochka 2006-11-28T08:37:00Z 2006-11-28T08:37:00Z http://amerikanka.blog.dada.net/post/305892/Hard+Assets

I spent the morning at the Hard Assets Investors' Conference today, trying to be inconspicuous and pick up info on mining in Russia and China.  Above is a scene from the edge of the Kupol mine.  I didn't learn anything radical about any of the... ]]>

snegurochka 2006-11-26T09:28:00Z 2006-11-26T09:28:00Z http://amerikanka.blog.dada.net/post/305388/Anna+Politkovskaya

I'm chagrined to find out that my understanding of the Anna Politkovskaya murder had left out the fact that she was one of the lead journalists at the progressive newspaper Novaya Gazeta.  This week I wrote to a grantee who is also a journalist at ... ]]>

snegurochka 2006-11-24T10:27:00Z 2006-11-24T10:27:00Z http://amerikanka.blog.dada.net/post/304831/Grateful

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snegurochka 2006-11-21T06:09:00Z 2006-11-21T06:09:00Z http://amerikanka.blog.dada.net/post/303663/My+Mind+on+Kamchatka

I've been wrangling the data from a report on a $45,000 small grants program being administered by an indigenous group on Kamchatka called "Lach."  They are doing a good job, I just have to be nit picky.  I'll be dreaming in Excel ag... ]]>

snegurochka 2006-11-18T09:17:00Z 2006-11-18T09:17:00Z http://amerikanka.blog.dada.net/post/302777/Sosnovka%2C+continued

I never got around to finishing posting about the September conference we call "Sosnovka" - the confab of about 30 environmental leaders from around Siberia and the Russian Far East.  This photo picks up from where I was in my post on... ]]>

snegurochka 2006-11-17T08:43:00Z 2006-11-17T08:43:00Z http://amerikanka.blog.dada.net/post/302357/Watch+the+%28Language%29+Gap%2C+Part+2

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snegurochka 2006-11-16T02:17:00Z 2006-11-16T02:17:00Z http://amerikanka.blog.dada.net/post/301886/Altai+Guys

These guys are slender Mongolian-esque types with a careful manner.&n... ]]>

snegurochka 2006-11-15T07:02:00Z 2006-11-15T07:02:00Z http://amerikanka.blog.dada.net/post/301595/You+Want+What+When

Borrowing a handy photo from Stuff on My Cat .com to illustrate what my day at work was like.  Started with a 5 am international conference call with people in Canada, Europe, the Russian Far East, and the US East and West Coast.  Only one act... ]]>

snegurochka 2006-11-13T07:12:00Z 2006-11-13T07:12:00Z http://amerikanka.blog.dada.net/post/300904/Cinderella+Bakery%2C+SF

Today I went to the Cinderella Bakery and Restaurant (in the Russian part of SF, serving Russian food) with my elderly friend Manya.  She is half Japanese and half Russian, and lives in Japantown in the Nihonmachi home, where most residents are Ja... ]]>

snegurochka 2006-11-10T23:58:00Z 2006-11-10T23:58:00Z http://amerikanka.blog.dada.net/post/300340/The+Beautiful+Aitalina%27s+Beautiful+Photos

This is the beautiful and amazing environmental leader Aitalina Efimova, the leader of the Sakha  (Yakut) Network for Environmental Monitoring.  She is an intelligent organizer but also a fantastic photographer.  She gave the staff at my ... ]]>

snegurochka 2006-11-09T03:31:00Z 2006-11-09T03:31:00Z http://amerikanka.blog.dada.net/post/299612/Accidental+Poetry+of+the+Melting+Arctic

Melting Arctic Makes ... ]]>

snegurochka 2006-11-07T20:56:00Z 2006-11-07T20:56:00Z http://amerikanka.blog.dada.net/post/299140/Happy+Ex-Holiday%21++A+celebration+to+celebrate+not+having+to+celebrate+the+Revolution+anymore%21

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snegurochka 2006-11-06T20:33:00Z 2006-11-06T20:33:00Z http://amerikanka.blog.dada.net/post/298745/What+I+Think+of+Borat

1. It has nothing to do with anything as far as Kazakhstan is concerned.... ]]>

snegurochka 2006-11-04T03:18:00Z 2006-11-04T03:18:00Z http://amerikanka.blog.dada.net/post/297992/What+is+Sosnovka

I realized the other day I posted about our annual Russian environmental organizational partners meeting and didn't explain the name.  We call it "Sosnovka" because the first year it was held (1998) it was in Sosnovka, Russia.  What'... ]]>

snegurochka 2006-11-03T03:04:00Z 2006-11-03T03:04:00Z http://amerikanka.blog.dada.net/post/297663/My+Old+Friends+in+Novgorod

This is a photo that was taken in June 2004 in a woods outside of Novgorod, aka Velikii Novgorod, aka Novgorod the Great.

We were having a picnic and roasting shashlyki when these local kids came through on nicely turned out horses, with saddle pads de... ]]>

snegurochka 2006-11-01T21:50:00Z 2006-11-01T21:50:00Z http://amerikanka.blog.dada.net/post/297237/A+Different+Way+to+Hunt+Leopards

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snegurochka 2006-11-01T03:12:00Z 2006-11-01T03:12:00Z http://amerikanka.blog.dada.net/post/296980/Cool+Map+of+Kamchatka

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