Jonny Tickle

Big day for transport nerds: it’s the final day of the Moscow Monorail before it shuts down for good. I’ve ridden it before and it was completely empty, like a romantic ride where every couple gets their own pod. Today, the city’s come out to give it a send-off. Прощай, легенда!

my first ever trip to Novogireyevo

the new SIM card law means that us foreigners have to go get our documents checked in government offices. the Moscow government has decided to stop foreigners using the offices in the centre of the city for certain services, so we're all being funnelled out to the suburbs. nice

ah shit, here we go again

May holidays at the dacha only mean one thing: manual labour

even worse is that the internet provider (lovit) is a subsidiary of the company who built the housing complex (Pik), and they won't let any other internet providers in as competition

Crazy situation in my housing complex in Moscow that shows the downsides of smart tech.

The internet has been down for 24 hours. That would be fine, but the gates to the complex are internet activated, and the doors are opened with an app (or face), so nobody can get in! Madness

Does he not own a suit?

Christmas Tree ➡️ Chinese New Year Tree ➡️ Maslenitsa Tree

77 million people voted for this guy

fair enough, I just always thought that area was absolutely awful

that whole area is unrecognisable now, take a look on yandex maps. there's a lot of nice new buildings and tinkoff moved in. cleaned the area up

Russian news outlets love those types of articles. Just endless quotes of nice things foreign media has said about Russia

The items for sale are mostly the same—Soviet memorabilia, old random tat, Russian dolls, and things you’d never expect to find in Moscow (like a British police uniform). And, of course, some very modern t-shirts…

Looks like COVID and then the war have been the death knell for Moscow’s Izmailovo Market. The last time I was here in 2019, every stall was open, and the place was full of foreign tourists.

Chinese New Year in Moscow, with fake terracotta warriors

Moscow is repurposing its Christmas trees for Chinese New Year by wrapping dragons and snakes around them

the perfect t-shirt to fit my very small niche

someone has never been paid by the word

Party in Sokolniki

Yes, quite some time ago

Always an honour to be invited to the British Ambassador’s residence in Moscow

Moscow in the snow

You may have inadvertently ended my use of Twitter then

Any chance you’ve got your Anglophone Russia list saved anywhere?

I really don't mind but it would be cool to be in one of these prestigious cemeteries

Vvedenskoye Cemetery is an interesting visit for any Europeans living in Moscow. You’ll find a tonne of Germans and French, as well as handful of people from other nationalities - Polish, Swiss, Dutch, Irish

Always interesting to bump into some fellow Brits abroad in a Russian cemetery

Paying my respects to the man responsible for my weight gain over the Russian holidays

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