At Home In The Wasteland Travel Blog

Yeeeeah it’s been awhile…skipped posting this for a few weeks, but honestly there hasn’t been much Russia-related news (on topics that I’m interested in, anyways). Energy: Russia Approves Divisive Pipeline Plan A controversial plan to build a major oil pipeline passing within half a mile of Siberia’s Lake Baikal, the world’s largest freshwater lake, was [...]

A few weeks ago, before I landed my current job, I was joking with some friends that I was going to apply for a position with the WMATA. The WMATA, for all you non-Washingtonians, is the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority, which, as you might have guessed from the ridiculously long name, is responsible for [...]

Lots of stories coming out of Chechnya this past week, mainly due to the fact that Yahoo’s Hot Zone journalist Kevin Sites was reporting from the region. His articles are well worth the read, but ignore the comments left by the idiots who couldn’t point out Chechnya on a map if their lives depended on [...]

…and no, it’s not at Office Depot. Smartasses. I work for a trade association that represents major energy corporations on issues regarding these: Tomorrow is only my third day there but so far I have really enjoyed it. I won’t be blogging about work at all because a) some D.C. bloggers who do so have [...]