There’s one characteristic that all Eastern Europeans share, from Finland to Macedonia, from Slovenia to Ukraine—it’s toughness. Brazil may be a country with a huge income disparity, but you don’t feel this when you’re in the country, regardless if you’re in a super-wealthy area like Ipanema or some poor favela.
The other day I stumbled on a post from some European travel blogger who described Moldova as “a hidden, must-see gem in Europe.” A “must-see gem” that’s also the poorest and most destitute country in Europe?
The Nile is the longest river in Africa, though (4,130 miles; 6,650 km), followed by the Congo: 2,900 miles (4,700 km).
The stores I visited sold all kinds of luggage, but not a digital scale. Ireland's longest river is the Shannon (224 miles, 360 km). Malcolm Gladwell: What if presidents were chosen by lottery?
Having said all that, I’m not bashing Eastern Europe. Eastern Europe isn’t known for its variety of exquisite dishes. "
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Reprinted with permission of MIT News. Indeed, Eastern Europeans routinely speak about “the West” (clumping the US and Western Europe) as if we’re all the same. He said, “Eastern Europe has an untarnished relation to traditional European values.
Image: Grasshopper Geography, Four of the world's largest drainage basins are in Russia: the Ob, Yenisei and Lena (origin of Vladimir I. Ulyanov's nom de guerre, Lenin) entirely and the Amur, shared with China. I can’t imagine having better luck in the smaller cities in countries such as Ukraine, Romania or Bulgaria.
They don’t act warmly to people they don’t know and sometimes even people they do know. "@context": "http://schema.org", In a similar way, they could have boiled roots and tubers, much like cooking raw potatoes, to make them more easily digestible. While there’re plenty of international restaurants in huge cities like Moscow and St. Petersburg, you won’t have many good options in the smaller cities. Elon Musk promises $25,000 electric car at Tesla's 'Battery Day', Back to back excavations unearth two dozen Egyptian mummies, Can we resurrect the dead?
St. Petersburg is a gorgeous city, but step outside the city’s bounds and you’re pretty much in the middle of the Soviet Union. On the other hand, Western Europeans are also diverse (compare Portugal with Norway), yet that doesn’t stop us from seeing their common traits.
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It’s really fucking depressing. But Bulgaria is in EU and St. Petersburg is one of Russia’s richest cities, so I can’t even (or don’t want to) imagine what rural parts of a poorer country such as Ukraine, Belarus or Moldova look like.
This time it’s a war between Ukrainian rebels and the Ukrainian government in Eastern Ukraine. One of the biggest reasons (maybe the biggest reason) that single men travel to Eastern Europe is for the affectionate and feminine women—all but an endangered species in the consumer-driven West.
People often describe a decreasing population as a “problem” or a “demographic crisis.” However, a forever-increasing population is a doomed Ponzi scheme.
A few years ago, I was chilling with a good American friend (born in Ukraine) who has a business in Kiev. There are a couple of ethnic restaurants that serve Mexican or Greek food, but they leave a lot to be desired; the Mexican food is bland, the Greek food is not only bland but also expensive.
"logo": { An answer has been discovered. The more you know about how money works, the better you will be at avoiding mistakes and the easier it will be to take control of your financial circumstances. I can deal with being surrounded by ugly 5-floor Communist buildings that all look the same. Meanwhile, Americans and Western Europeans are plagued with a Byzantine tax code. "@type": "Person", Ever wonder how LSD works? Even with workaholic Slovenians on one extreme and relaxed Bosnians on the other, Eastern Europeans tend to balance work and play better than Americans. Despite constant invasions and occupations over the centuries, the hardy inhabitants have, nevertheless, managed to persevere.
Don't let that spidery network of river courses in the interior fool you: Australia is the world's driest inhabited continent (Antarctica, bizarrely, is drier). Nearly half of the population was killed.
Such serious praise should probably belong to Lichtenstein or Andorra—not Moldova.
I’m not used to luxuries or conspicuous consumption. Of course, there are other shared positive traits in Eastern Europe. This applies to pretty much everything. Tough.
Russia and Ukraine are definitely more dangerous. There’s one characteristic that all Eastern Europeans share, from Finland to Macedonia, from … Those are all accurate. Image: Grasshopper Geography, Spread-eagled across the central part of the United States, the Mississippi's drainage basin covers all or parts of 32 U.S. states (and two Canadian provinces). The European ancestry of these people was predominantly Dutch, and also Portuguese, British, French, Belgian, German, and others. The Baltic countries are pretty safe for the most part, although there are seedy areas. They’ve fulfilled a capitalist fantasy: simple, predictable taxes.