This is success mindset: wanting to ease tensions w/the Americans, in 1958 Khrushchev went to the US ambassador's house, forced the ambassador to have dinner with him, and then played the song "Why Must You Be Mean to Me?" on repeat all night

The responses to this are so funny! A lot of people missed my point—but I get it if they haven’t followed me for a while. I’m not talking about actual old money (that obscene hoarding of wealth built on exploitation). I’m talking about the aesthetics that have become popular!

I wonder if the soviet sculptor was a prankster.. It’s next to my university and we’ve always referred to this art piece as “masturbator”

I biked by the white house today and it’s always a reminder that Russian experiment with democracy ended in 1993 when Yeltsin shelled it and became a quasi dictator

This is the headquarters of Russian academy of science. The building is usually referred to as “golden brains”. Kind of ironic

It’s true, “Moscow is radicalizing for Americans to visit” bc unlike NY that is another city overrun by billionaires, Moscow is actually functional for the public as well. American billionaires are getting dumb by not giving anything back. Hopefully Zohran will make them.

Moscow has been clean before the collapse of the soviet union, now it is sort of coming back to those days I imagine. My neighborhood next to the biggest stadium in Russia Luzhniki used to be trash, full of makeshift tents selling various imported goods, prostitution spots in the

Silicon valley — moscow edition

So weird that soviet intelligentsia in modern Russia largely has become like impoverished aristocrats in Soviet Russia. My déclassé status in moscow is in my face every day.

One time you guys didn’t know who Flaubert was that could be something to look into