It's Earth Day, a day to reflect on the beauty of our island home. BBC Home Entertainment and GeekDad are giving away two prize packages including the award-winning BBC Earth documentaries Planet Earth, Frozen Planet, and Blue Planet.

I have not offered any advice on looking after children and domestic issues in Moscow. This is a bit ironic, since that has been my world since moving to Moscow. I can only offer advice, based on my own opinion and I am only a simple, knuckle draggi...

Eccentricities make life interesting, Moscow is rich in eccentricity. You will find many eccentricities within other posts on this blog but here are some of the main ones. I define eccentricity as meaning different and unusual to the expected norm. Ecc...

Below, you will find a basic list of general tips for expatriates moving to Moscow. For anyone who has not lived in Moscow before, some of the advice below may seem slightly exaggerated. Some advice below is definitely very exaggerated, while some of t...

Welcome to a  new feature on this blog. A new feature to English Dad In Moscow is this section called ask auntie Olga. She is here as an agony aunt to help you with any problems or questions that are related to some ...

Happy New year, in this my first post in 2012. Teaching in peoples homes, in a foreign country and in a country so alien to your own, is a wonderful sociological voyeuristic experiment that I recommend to any gossip queen or amateur sociologist. You ...

I've been teaching two non identical twin sisters for about a year now. We meet once a week at their flat, in a popular central area of Moscow, populated by wealthy expatriates and by wealthy Russians. We meet for ninety minutes and they pay me well...