Long-Term Effects. When an excess amount of cortisol is in your brain, the cortisol affects the function of the hippocampus. As part of fight or flight, blood glucose, which is a source of energy, is diverted from the hippocampus to your muscles.
Russian River Cruises. Take a vacation of a lifetime as you travel down the rivers of Russia on a Russian cruise with us. Travel on the routes followed by the Russian Tsars, dock in ancient Russian cities that to this day, still conjure up Russia's mysterious past.
Russian holidays: summer in Russia. Russian holidays: Summer in Russia. 12 August 2013 â¢ 12:00am. Russian cars shrink as one leaves the capital, and hairstyles get weirder. Over the course of a thousand-mile circular summer journey through the European heartlands of provincial Russia, I discovered a land foreign to Moscow and Petersburg.