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Photo of the week.

Saint-Petersburg, Russia.

#photooftheweek #russia #saint-petersburg

Tip for living in Russia.

The standard time zone in both Moscow and Saint-Petersburg is UTC/GMT + 4 hours.

#tipsforliving #russia

Today I was thinking about who I am — Europe or Asia? Well, so hard to say!

But I am Russia, that’s no doubt.

From Russia with confidence.

#fromrussiawith #thoughts #russia #whoiam

Photo of the week.

From Russia with no regret.

Photo by Alexander Petrosyan.

#russia #photooftheweek #photo #saint-petersburg

Literature is painting, architecture and music.

Yevgeny Zamyatin, Russian novelist.

#quote #russia #yevgeny zamyatin

Rear view of a kokoshnik — traditional Russian headdress worn by women.

#russia #kokoshnik #headdress

Not smiling since 862. This is my new motto!

From Russia with sadness.

#russia #fact #motto

Photo of the week.

I’m a cold country, but sometimes I can be really hot!

Volcano eruption in Kamchatka by Mikhail Vershinin.

#Photooftheweek #photo #volcano #kamchatka #Russia

Stenberg brothers’ poster for The Last Flight (Ivan Pravov), a film about a circus troupe marooned in southern Russia during the 1917 revolution.

#poster #russia #1917 #revolution #circus #film

Between you and me: there are no bears on the streets. So, forget about the stereotypes and have a good time!

#tipsforliving #Russia #bears

Word of the week.

Чуть-чуть (Choot’-choot’), adv.

A tiny bit; just a little; slightly.

Pronunciation: www.soundcloud.com/iamrussia/choot-choot

Example sentence: — Wanna drink? — Чуть-чуть!

#russia #wordoftheweek #choot-choot

But Sasha was from Russia, where the sunsets are longer, the dawns less sudden and sentences are often left unfinished from doubt as how to best end them.

Virginia Woolf, Orlando.

#quote #russia #saint-petersburg

Photo of the week.

Poles of the Komi Republic are a set of 7 gigantic abnormally shaped stone pillars located north of the Ural mountains in the Troitsko-Pechorsky District of the Komi Republic.

By Brodyaga s Severa.

#photo #Photooftheweek #russia #komi republic #ural

Tip for living in Russia.

In Russia the electrical current is 220 volts AC (50 Hz), standart European two-pin plugs are used. If you are from the U.S. or Canada, don't forget to bring a power converter!

#tipsforliving #russia