Have you ever noticed the difference between the inhabitants of province and the city? Does your province girl differ from metropolitan? In what aspects?

Let’s have a look at the definition of the word “province”. The Shorter Oxford Dictionary defines “province” as referring to “parts of a country outside the capital”. Dr Johnson's dictionary describes “provincial” as “rude; unpolished”. Who’s right?

In Russia, there is a great difference between capital, city, town and country inhabitants. There is a great abyss between provincial and metropolitan girls. But here, we define metropolitan girls – as inhabitants of capitals and big cities, like Moscow, St. Petersburg. Provincial – as all the others.

As you know, the main difference between small towns and big cities is society, and the relationships inside it. The benefit of a small town is the sense of community, more communal attitude. Everybody knows each other, knows the living, habits. The best theme to talk about is gossips: who is pregnant, who drinks a lot or plays cards.

That is why people care what the neighbors can say or think about their daughters and bred them in strict morals or even restrictions.

That’s why provincial girls are more old fashioned, traditionalists, religious, family-oriented. The main goal for women here – is to get married, give birth to children, to keep house. She needs to be modest, to be faithful to husband, to be good cooker.

They haven’t seen life, as it is, and that’s why they are stays emotionally “clean”, so called “tabula rasa”: native, trustful, persons of ready sympathy, loyal and understanding. Such women are true, real in their emotions, in love and hate.

The Helikon is a Moscow opera theatre, an elegant, pastel-green mansion dating back to the 18th century in the very heart of the city. As might be expected of an opera house, it exudes dignity and grandeur – or at least it did until it was covered up in green tarpaulin, and major renovation work started. It is these renovations that have made the theatre the centre of a bitter battle that has divided the Russian capital's artistic community and led the two sides to accuse each other of being vandals and extremists.


After a changing of the guard in Moscow's political scene, the row over the reconstruction has suddenly become a political and cultural test for the city's aesthetes – as well as for its new mayor, who faces a decision that will shape his cultural agenda barely three months into the job.

On one side of the battle lines is the Helikon, a young dynamic opera company that is regarded as one of the best in Russia. On the other side is Arkhnadzor, a group of architectural preservationists who have often been seen as the lone voices of protest as some of Moscow's heritage has been destroyed in recent years.

The Helikon company had planned for years to renovate its theatre complex, adding a big stage to the tiny 200-seat theatre it had previously used. Work finally got underway on the project two years ago, but in September, the Kremlin fired Yuri Luzhkov, Moscow's controversial mayor of 18 years. Almost immediately, the interim government suspended the work along with other Luzhkov-era projects, saying it needed time to decide on the objections.

Let’s face it; if you’re looking for advice on marriage, you could spend DAYS researching on the internet without even scratching the surface of all the marriage advice that’s out there.

But the sad fact is, that’s what most people in your situation do…they RESEARCH…but never ACT on the concepts and ideas they learn about because they come up with “excuses” for why THEIR situation is DIFFERENT.

Well let me tell you….your situation is NOT different. And as EXTREME as MY marriage was…my “situation” was NOT different either…

There are very few articles and resources addressing the topic of jealousy. I have come to the conclusion that this is merely because people don't know what stance to take on the situation. Everyone has been on both sides of the fence. Most of us have experienced a jealous lover and many of us have been in a relationship where we curiously find ourselves being insecure and jealous by nature. On one hand you want to condemn the abhorrent behavior exhibited by jealous partners while on the other hand you might be able to sympathize. I have decided to courageously announce my decided opinion. Jealousy is just another euphemism for psychotic behavior.

Research indicates that over 55% of married women are not interested in having sex with their husbands. In my 35 years of counseling couples, I’ve worked with many men who also are not interested in sex with their wives. The problem is generally not a lack of sexual desire - it’s that they are not interested in sex with their partner.

There is a very good reason for this.

Sexuality in long term relationships is the result of loving energy flowing between two people. If something is blocking this loving energy, the sexual energy between them often gets blocked as well.

There may be many reasons for loving and sexual energy being blocked, but the most common is what I call the “pull-resist relationship system.”

Here’s how it works:

Read this article and you will see that the Russian women in this particular village are very courageous, given the scale of alcoholism, which affected their men.

Alcoholics in Russia have virtually no support in the form of peer support or organizations, such as AA, which can help them recover and become functional again. So, to see grass-roots effort on the part of women, regardless of how small is good. \

    Siberian Women Battle Against Alcoholics

Have you ever wondered why so we are glad the beauty of nature? Why animals and plants seem so beautiful? Everything in nature is effective and is not affected, otherwise he would not be able to live. Hippopotamus, which seems so heavy and clumsy, was faster than in its natural state than one can be, and it's really beautiful. Meanwhile, a legless and slippery snake moves so beautiful and fast that we could do, but I wonder how he manages.


 The very idea of beauty inseparable from rationality. It is rationality that makes us create lovely cars and stylish ocean ships and admire the men and beautiful women, muscular body shape. Inextricable link between rationality and beauty is a rule for all living things and the main indicator of quality. That is why in our desire to be selected by the opposite sex, we try to look attractive. 


 All bread is baked in the oven, so people differ in their natural form. Some of them are naturally thin, others hard. But the fashion changes from time to time and presses its standards for all. How can I find some of its measures for the beauty and attractiveness? Where is the border between shortweight, average weight or overweight? Or how is it? Of course there is. The only measure, because it is still defined by rationality or, roughly speaking, health care, energy and mobility.

A terrible fire in a nightclub killed 112 people in the city of Perm.

From my experience in these places I would not be surprised if the majority of these victims were young women who were simply looking forward to entertaining evening at a local club.

Although I personally have never been in Perm, I made a few friends from this city.

I know that tragedies occur all the time.