A great and fun article to read by Halia Pavliva and Elena Popina Source /Bloomberg /news I ususally do not repost – but I think many of you will enjoy reading it July 24 (Bloomberg) –- Bloomberg View Columnist Leonid Bershidsky discusses the world’s impression of Russia and what Putin can do to reverse the negative public opinion. He speaks to Mark Barton on Bloomberg Television’s “Countdown.” (Source: Bloomberg) As Karen Peterson posed for a picture beside a set of matryoshka dolls in the Russian Tea Room, the midtown-Manhattan restaurant founded by anti-Bolshevik immigrants in 1927, she was in no mood to talk about Vladimir Putin. “I love Russian food, not Russian politics,” said Peterson, a New Yorker who was dining with a friend. “There is much more to Russia than Putin.” Half a world away from the bloody fighting in eastern Ukraine that is ensnaring Russia in its worst diplomatic standoff with the U.S. since the Cold War, business is booming at the Russian Tea Room. Early one afternoon this week, tables were packed with people picking through a menu highlighted by items like the $295 golden osetra caviar, $38 chicken Kiev and $25 Beluga vodka shots. Since the crisis began with Putin’s annexation of the Crimea peninsula in March, some out-of-town tourists have come looking to talk politics, hostess Anna Zinenko said. The Russian-speaking clients have gone quiet on the conflict, a subject made even more sensitive by last week’s downing of a passenger flight that killed 298 […]
About
This website is for all people interested in seeing the world through bright colors, the brightest of them being Red …
Maria Lafont
Latest Tweets
- A well-known Russian art critic Paola Volkova explains Primavera by Sandro Botticelli in her Art Program... https://t.co/oBZb4bXbhe
- When in May last year (2016) my biography of Angelica Balabanoff The Strange Comrade Balabanoff: The Life of a... https://t.co/qh9JJcM6J5
- TO celebrate Chistmas I decided to make a Beetroot Tarte Tatin and dedicate it to Angelica!* For obvious reasons... https://t.co/PmktwHJ5uR
Tags
Angelica Balabanoff
Angelica Balabanoff; red; McFarland
appetizer
artist
basil
beetroot
biography
Bruges
Chernigov
color
fashion
food
gifts
Lenin
lifestyle
LP
macarons
Maria Lafont
McFarland
McFarland Publishers
metro
Moscow
music
Mussolini
omelet
pancake
Paris
Poster
propaganda
quiz
rebel
recipe
red
risotto
Russia
Russian
salad
Soviet
Tea-Room
Tomato
Trendy
trout caviar
vintage
woman
writing
Copyright 2013 More Than Red.
By WordPress Expert
By WordPress Expert