Special Time of the Year
It’s coming again! Holidays season is on its way and we are all catching up with its spirit. Here is a very old picture of celebration of holiday season in my kindergarten in Moscow...
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Candid Camera Russian Style
Just a blast from the past… It’s one of the episodes from the Funny Guys TV. Moscow. Winter 1990. A man wearing a black stocking mask on his face is looking lost on the...
Belated Postcard to Fidel Castro
Sorry. we missed the occasion. For some, he was a romantic rebel. For others, a ruthless dictator. Almost nothing in between. Just a poor nation on the island that used to be called Island...
Happy Birthday to Alexander Maslyakov
What a year! What a month! Andrey Knyshev turned 60. Alexander Maslyakov turned 75. Both had a significant impact on my career in showbiz in Russia. Both produced comedy TV shows that were super...
Ready To Go To the World Championship
They are ready to go to the Worlds in Stockholm Here is an interesting photo from the good old Strength and Health magazine published by Bob Hoffman. This is Team USA 1958 posing for...
Before the Winter Comes
Perhaps, this is the last photo of Boston before the arrival of the cold of winter. The gloom of winter storms is coming. But, then you never know… Cheers! Enjoy the last days of...
TV Difference In 25+ Years
I finally got in touch with Andrey Knyshev, the creator of the Funny Guys TV, the Soviet Monty Python of the 1980s! Well, people turn 60 once in their lives and I really wanted...
Welcome to Massachusetts, Chrigi and Brian!
The happiest couple on the planet Earth finally arrived to the Boston area. Chrigi and Brian travelled for almost 24 hours from Jacksonville, FL to Boston, MA with two stops in Washington, DC and...
Beware Retest
Due to the outstanding scientific development of analysis technologies since the 2008 and the 2012 Olympic Games, the IOC decided to reanalyze samples from the 2008 Beijing and the 2012 London Olympic Games based on its...
