Everybody walks past a thousand story ideas every day. The good writers are the ones who see five or six of them. Most people don't see any.
Orson Scott

Comment preview: Translated by yours truly [from the original German using this version](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdY60y_RZpw&feature=related): (Oh..) Moscow foreign and full of secrets. Towers of red gold, cold as the ice. Moskow, those that really know you, he ....


Comment preview: Dude, I live in Moscow and sometimes Russian post service operates even worse. I had a shipment that was supposed to be sent to another part of the city once (the destination address was about 20 km away from me), but for some reason it got a ride to Penza ....


Comment preview: He has regular civilian plates, however his plate number starting with 'A', and further ending in 'AA' is what is of interest. Usually plates that start with A belong to a special series issued to government officials... and those in a favored position wit ....


Comment preview: There's plenty of problems of income inequality outside of Russia. There are also some billionaires in Russia that are 'self-made'- however, a startling number of billionaires in Russia made their money through shady dealings in the 90' or political connec ....


Comment preview: Let me answer from my perspective. I live in Moscow. I didn't vote for government parties or for Medvedev/Putin even once. I was a part of most anti-government meetings, including the Bolotnaya one, where a lot of people got arrested and serve time now, an ....


Comment preview: copy/paste of my comment from /r/worldnews ____ *It's disgusting, of course. I just can't help but notice that numbers mentioned in the article are nowhere near high enough to talk about special animosity towards blacks. 117 cases for 3 years in 140 millio ....


Comment preview: When I lived in Moscow, I was sad and drunk and wandering around in the streets one night around 1am or so. I was walking down this little street, when I heard a little squeal. I turned around and I was being followed by a filthy, ratty looking little kitt ....


Comment preview: This happened 3 years ago. I'm waiting for a friend at a metro station (in Moscow) and I see this girl who is like the prettiest girl I ever saw. So I summon all the courage and come up to her. It works fine, she seems to be willing to make my acquaintance ....


Comment preview: In general the nations that comprised the USSR each had their own leader and were divided geographically into areas that resemble what those countries are like now[[List](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_former_Soviet_Republics_by_GDP_\(PPP\))]. For ex ....


Comment preview: > I don't understand is why the Russian public is so vehemently negative towards this issue This may be anecdotal (my family left in 1992, I have a lot of Eastern-European immigrant friends, my brother's wife is a recent Moscow expat [now US citizen]): ....


Comment preview: > His primary rationale for this argument has long been that under the Espionage Act, the 1917 statute under which he has been charged, he would be barred by U.S. courts from even raising his key defense: that the information he revealed to journalists ....


Comment preview: Coming from Serbia and living in Moscow over the last 14 years, I had the privilege to meet Vidic personally, due to his agents being good friends with my Dad (who worked for Nike). All I can say is that he's one hell of a leader and a role model for any f ....


Comment preview: I was living in Moscow during the 9/11. Nobody from my family at that point has ever been to the states, knew anyone in the states, or particularly liked anything about the US (ok, maybe the movies). Moscow has a 9 hour difference with the East Coast (it w ....


Comment preview: American male here. I was living in Moscow a few years ago, and was taking the metro back home at the end of this particular day. The subway was always a great opportunity for me to practice my Russian. I started a conversation with an older man, who seeme ....


Comment preview: I live in semi-expat mode, so my perspective is more of a foreigner-living-in-Moscow than that of a native Russian. Here we go... Food costs: there's a noticeable, but still liveable, cost increase in all produce, vegetables, meats, etc. that you find at ....


Comment preview: Okay, first, some background. I'm Russian, but spent a good chunk of my life growing up in Nigeria. The place where I live in Moscow is near this international institute place, and there's a lot of black people around there (a BIG rarity in Russia). In par ....


Comment preview: Unfortunately I live in Moscow - I doubt anyone is interested in people that far away from Frankfurt and Manchester. :D And that aside, I don't really have the artistic experience on par with incredibly talented folks from places like Foundry 42 yet. One e ....


Comment preview: I was 11 years old when we moved to a new house where I didn't know anyone around. Home from school, I got into the elevator and the tall middle aged man hurried and got in after me right before the doors shut. As a city girl, I could have been wise, gotte ....


Comment preview: 3 years ago I'm waiting for a friend at a metro station (in Moscow) and I see this girl who is like the prettiest girl I ever saw. So I summon all the courage and come up to her. It works fine, she seems to be willing to make my acquaintance as well. We ch ....


Comment preview: I moved here from Russia when I was not quite 6 years old. The date was 1997. It was a huge culture shock! Before, we lived in either giant, rectangular, featureless apartment buildings or a little cottage in a tiny farmtown. We moved to a suburb of San Ma ....


Comment preview: Russia has always had a class of intellectual, well-educated dissidents agitating for liberalization, but the priorities of these people (democracy, protection of the rights of the individual, a rule of law which presumes equality between individuals and d ....


Comment preview: I'm Russian living in Moscow. In modern day Russia, I disapprove of the law because it's just another one in a chain of freedom infringements, and because of how laws are put into practice here. Clarifications for this law state that it's prohibited to hav ....


Comment preview: 'Sup all. Russian living in Moscow here. We don't actually hate Americans, and none of us want any conflicts with the USA. In fact, just last week the US-Russia visa pact went in effect, making it easy for citizens of both countries to travel back and fort ....


Comment preview: Okay, a second story, since it popped into mind. This isn't Chekov, but it is a major foreshadowing / mindfuck thing, I guess. This is a longer yarn, hope someone bothers to read it. :P Mmh, perhaps I'll write it into a story too, one day. **The Room of an ....