You’re listening to episode #98 of the Mark in Russia broadcast and I’m Mark………………………. Wow! 98 episodes! When I made my first episode I really wasn’t thinking about what I’ll do for my 100th episode, but now that I’m at 98, I

  You’re listening to the Mark in Russia Broadcast, episode # 97, and I’m Mark…………………………   I’d like to do something unusual for me. I recently found out that a teacher and friend of mine who moved from Russia to France has a

  You’re listening to the Mark in Russia Broadcast, episode 096 and I’m Mark…………….. Todays broadcast will continue our theme of You Are Not Special and also touch a little on the holidays. Selfie of the year award goes to the winner of t

You’re listening to episode # 095 of the Mark in Russia Broadcast and I’m Mark…………………………….   The older I get, the more I realize that I don’t give a crap about what most people think of me. This can actually help society in

  This week I read some rather random news stories about Russia from Western news services and also report on a couple of current U.S. news stories.

Welcome to Episode 093 of the Mark in Russia Broadcast. In today's podcast I talk a little bit about the 30 Greenpeace "activists" who are now sitting in jail awaiting trial. While Russia catches crap from all of the western countries, seems like the west

Big in the news this week was the word that Obama won’t meet with Putin when he is in Russia for the G-20 Summit in September. This meeting had been agreed to and finalized as late as the end of July, but now Obama is backing out. Frankly, I don’t car

Hi, you’re listening to episode # 91 of the Mark in Russia broadcast and I’m Mark……………….. You can listen to all of my episodes at www.markinrussia.com Today I’m going to talk about a very popular vacation destination for Russian tourist

    Hi, you’re listening to episode # 090 of the Mark in Russia Broadcast and I’m Mark……………   Sorry I haven’t posted a new episode in about 3 weeks, or maybe slightly longer. My work year was ending which meant crazy time trying to

  Hi, you’re listening to episode # 089 of the Mark in Russia broadcast, and I’m your host, Mark……….   For all of you with delicate dispositions and weak of heart, you need to turn off this episode right now. This is not one of my normal e