Content advisory 18+ When I used to write a lot for SNOB (a once-promising project that I came to by chance in 2009 or '10), they always wanted me to present the point of view of a foreigner who had been in Russia for a while. Not as some guy who just got off the boat (there are no boats) and looking for polar bears in Red Square, or who … Read the rest
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Death of an Ideal
Контент 16+ I have recently heard through a very reliable grapevine of present students and old friends that the long-running 'SNOB Project' is about ready to go down the tubes. For those of you for whom the name does not ring a bell, the idea started about 10 years ago to create an international fraternity of Russian intellectuals (many of them now in America, it would seem) -- with the … Read the rest
Русские женщины. Часть 1. Эрик Лерой.
www.snob.ruДля тех, кто по какой-то причине не имеет возможности читать Эрика в оригинале (хотя, конечно, большая часть красоты языка в переводе потеряна).… Read the rest
