http://amerikanka.blog.dada.net/ My adventures as a Russian-speaking Amerikanka working in the Russian diaspora and in Russian and Former Soviet lands. en DADA.net 40 snegurochka Wed, 18 Apr 2007 00:49:00 GMT 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 Wed, 14 Mar 2007 00:21:00 GMT 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 Tue, 27 Feb 2007 05:57:00 GMT http://amerikanka.blog.dada.net/post/328678/Two+Events+with+Russia%27s+Top+Environmentalists--in+SF+36+and+38
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The World Affairs Council of North... ]]> snegurochka Wed, 07 Feb 2007 02:50:00 GMT 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 Mon, 05 Feb 2007 20:11:00 GMT http://amerikanka.blog.dada.net/post/323173/Poor+Omsk%21
Russia probes smelly orange snow ]]> snegurochka Thu, 25 Jan 2007 03:12:57 GMT 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 Thu, 04 Jan 2007 21:01:00 GMT 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 Tue, 02 Jan 2007 15:15:00 GMT http://amerikanka.blog.dada.net/post/314554/Moral+Damage%3A+Sakhalin ]]> snegurochka Fri, 29 Dec 2006 00:32:00 GMT 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 Wed, 27 Dec 2006 05:19:00 GMT 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 Sat, 23 Dec 2006 00:40:13 GMT 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 Fri, 22 Dec 2006 03:36:00 GMT http://amerikanka.blog.dada.net/post/312467/That+crazy+dictator+is+dead+-+what+next
Another chaotic Central Asian country that most US Americ... ]]> snegurochka Thu, 21 Dec 2006 00:14:48 GMT 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 Wed, 20 Dec 2006 07:22:00 GMT http://amerikanka.blog.dada.net/post/311926/Putting+the+PARTY+back+in+Communist+Party%21

Woo hoo!

Still available in "girlie tee"!... ]]> snegurochka Sun, 17 Dec 2006 22:28:20 GMT http://amerikanka.blog.dada.net/post/311322/AMERIKANKA snegurochka Thu, 14 Dec 2006 01:54:00 GMT 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 Tue, 12 Dec 2006 22:32:00 GMT http://amerikanka.blog.dada.net/post/310169/Alkhalalalalai%21++-+Send+over+the+women+with+big+breasts%21
"We want women with big breast... ]]> snegurochka Mon, 11 Dec 2006 23:56:00 GMT http://amerikanka.blog.dada.net/post/309860/What+the+hell+is+polygyria
The word looked like poligia, but all I cou... ]]> snegurochka Thu, 07 Dec 2006 00:16:00 GMT http://amerikanka.blog.dada.net/post/308647/G7+%2B+G77+%2B+Russia+%3D+ ]]> snegurochka Tue, 05 Dec 2006 05:21:00 GMT http://amerikanka.blog.dada.net/post/308052/Zagreb+is+Nearer+Than+You+Think
1 - my friend and sometime fling Vlasta from... ]]> snegurochka Thu, 30 Nov 2006 23:43:00 GMT http://amerikanka.blog.dada.net/post/307035/Dusty+Old+Photos+of+the+Altai ]]> snegurochka Thu, 30 Nov 2006 23:00:00 GMT 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 Thu, 30 Nov 2006 18:07:00 GMT 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.


       ... ]]> snegurochka Tue, 28 Nov 2006 08:37:00 GMT 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 Sun, 26 Nov 2006 09:28:00 GMT 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 Fri, 24 Nov 2006 10:27:00 GMT http://amerikanka.blog.dada.net/post/304831/Grateful ]]> snegurochka Tue, 21 Nov 2006 06:09:00 GMT 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 Sat, 18 Nov 2006 09:17:00 GMT 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 Fri, 17 Nov 2006 08:43:00 GMT http://amerikanka.blog.dada.net/post/302357/Watch+the+%28Language%29+Gap%2C+Part+2 ]]> snegurochka Thu, 16 Nov 2006 02:17:00 GMT http://amerikanka.blog.dada.net/post/301886/Altai+Guys
These guys are slender Mongolian-esque types with a careful manner.&n... ]]> snegurochka Wed, 15 Nov 2006 07:02:00 GMT 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 Mon, 13 Nov 2006 07:12:00 GMT 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 Fri, 10 Nov 2006 23:58:00 GMT 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 Thu, 09 Nov 2006 03:31:00 GMT http://amerikanka.blog.dada.net/post/299612/Accidental+Poetry+of+the+Melting+Arctic
Melting Arctic Makes ... ]]> snegurochka Tue, 07 Nov 2006 20:56:00 GMT 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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Ex-Holidays: The ... ]]> snegurochka Mon, 06 Nov 2006 20:33:00 GMT 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 Sat, 04 Nov 2006 03:18:00 GMT 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 Fri, 03 Nov 2006 03:04:00 GMT 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 Wed, 01 Nov 2006 21:50:00 GMT http://amerikanka.blog.dada.net/post/297237/A+Different+Way+to+Hunt+Leopards ]]> snegurochka Wed, 01 Nov 2006 03:12:00 GMT http://amerikanka.blog.dada.net/post/296980/Cool+Map+of+Kamchatka ]]>