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Jonny Tickle

@jonnytickle.bsky.social
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Brit in Moscow since 2017. I post about life in Russia.

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Jonny Tickle @jonnytickle.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
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!
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Jonny Tickle @jonnytickle.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
my first ever trip to Novogireyevo
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Jonny Tickle @jonnytickle.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
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
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Jonny Tickle @jonnytickle.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
ah shit, here we go again
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Jonny Tickle @jonnytickle.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
May holidays at the dacha only mean one thing: manual labour
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Jonny Tickle @jonnytickle.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
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
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Jonny Tickle @jonnytickle.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
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
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Jonny Tickle @jonnytickle.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Does he not own a suit?
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Jonny Tickle @jonnytickle.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Christmas Tree ➡️ Chinese New Year Tree ➡️ Maslenitsa Tree
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Jonny Tickle @jonnytickle.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
77 million people voted for this guy
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Jonny Tickle @jonnytickle.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
fair enough, I just always thought that area was absolutely awful
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Jonny Tickle @jonnytickle.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
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
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Jonny Tickle @jonnytickle.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Russian news outlets love those types of articles. Just endless quotes of nice things foreign media has said about Russia
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Jonny Tickle @jonnytickle.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
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…
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Jonny Tickle @jonnytickle.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
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.
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Jonny Tickle @jonnytickle.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Chinese New Year in Moscow, with fake terracotta warriors
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Jonny Tickle @jonnytickle.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Moscow is repurposing its Christmas trees for Chinese New Year by wrapping dragons and snakes around them
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Jonny Tickle @jonnytickle.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
the perfect t-shirt to fit my very small niche
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Jonny Tickle @jonnytickle.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
someone has never been paid by the word
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Jonny Tickle @jonnytickle.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
Party in Sokolniki
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Jonny Tickle @jonnytickle.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Yes, quite some time ago
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Jonny Tickle @jonnytickle.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Always an honour to be invited to the British Ambassador’s residence in Moscow
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Jonny Tickle @jonnytickle.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Moscow in the snow
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Jonny Tickle @jonnytickle.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
You may have inadvertently ended my use of Twitter then
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Jonny Tickle @jonnytickle.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
Any chance you’ve got your Anglophone Russia list saved anywhere?
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Jonny Tickle @jonnytickle.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
I really don't mind but it would be cool to be in one of these prestigious cemeteries
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Jonny Tickle @jonnytickle.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
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
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Jonny Tickle @jonnytickle.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Always interesting to bump into some fellow Brits abroad in a Russian cemetery
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Jonny Tickle @jonnytickle.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Paying my respects to the man responsible for my weight gain over the Russian holidays
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Jonny Tickle @jonnytickle.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
туманный питер
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Jonny Tickle @jonnytickle.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
before the final they had a promo shoot with a chess set and the board was wrong
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Jonny Tickle @jonnytickle.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
I absolutely love watching PandaSakha, the Instagram/YouTube channel showing life and cooking in -55 degrees in Yakutia, Russia
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Jonny Tickle @jonnytickle.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
I love train rides in the Russian winter
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Jonny Tickle @jonnytickle.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
before anyone asks - yes that photo is strategically positioned to miss out the reconstruction of Spas na Krovi which is STILL ongoing
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Jonny Tickle @jonnytickle.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
First walk of 2025 around snowy St. Petersburg
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Jonny Tickle @jonnytickle.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
Forget Lego, this Brezhnevka is holiday fun for the whole family
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Jonny Tickle @jonnytickle.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
Anyone want a Khrushchevka, Brezhnevka or Stalinka construction set?
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Jonny Tickle @jonnytickle.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
Mainly confetti I think. Too many kids here running riot
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Jonny Tickle @jonnytickle.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
Indoctrinating one Russian kid at a time 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿
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Jonny Tickle @jonnytickle.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
I’m glad Danya has decided to stop walking on egg shells. His interview with c squared was excellent, and he was good on take take take as well
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Jonny Tickle @jonnytickle.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
Gaidai’s “Kidnapping, Caucasian Style” providing the background music
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Jonny Tickle @jonnytickle.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
At my partner’s New Year party, the opening conversation is about a relative who died in Ukraine. The entire village is knocking on their door asking for money. The village is small, poor, and not Russian-speaking. The family received $30k after his death, which is a huge sum.
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Jonny Tickle @jonnytickle.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
Bluesky, I’m looking for book recommendations I’d like to read a non-fiction book on Russian history (any period), written in Russian. It should be available for purchase in Russia today, but not filled with nonsense or propaganda. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!
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Jonny Tickle @jonnytickle.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
Christmas dinner made by chef @kotelnaya.bsky.social in Moscow
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Jonny Tickle @jonnytickle.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
⬅️ New Year decorations outside Gorky Park in December 2022 ➡️ Today, same location, December 2024 Massive difference. Nothing war-related at all this year.
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Jonny Tickle @jonnytickle.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
to be fair to Putin, the content on Vlad A4's channel is bad for anyone's brain
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Jonny Tickle @jonnytickle.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
That professor has a good surname
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Jonny Tickle @jonnytickle.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
This evening I went on a walk through the centre of Moscow and noticed that the army recruitment billboards, posters and benches seem to have totally disappeared overnight It seems like they’ve been replaced by Moscow city government ads for events over the festive period
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Jonny Tickle @jonnytickle.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
Red Square market 🎄
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Jonny Tickle @jonnytickle.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
you should follow me so I can send you a message (it’s been a long time and I would like to connect)
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