Windows to Russia

Paradise Lost?By Dmitry Babich Although the totalitarian Soviet education system barred questioning or criticism, it nonetheless produced some of the greatest scientists and performers in Russian history. Windows to Russia!

Everywhere I go in Russia. I see a Soviet past that is missed by more than just a few people.. That is what I was thinking this morning over coffee. That thought came from when Sveta and I the other night visited some friends. It was a typical visit to a Russian and that meansContinue reading Russia’s “Good ol’ Days” Past…

Gorby 80: Mikhail Gorbachev’s 80th birthday gala in London… (In London?) The star-studded charity concert at Royal Albert Hall for the last leader of the Soviet Union – Gorby! Given for his 80th birthday, where guests included Arnold Schwarzenegger, Lech Walesa, Kevin Spacey, Sharon Stone and many many more famous… Gorbachev, the so-called “architect ofContinue reading Mikhail Gorbachev’s 80th birthday – Held in London…

Moscow police have said they will not allow radical opposition leader Eduard Limonov to stage a banned anti-Kremlin rally on Triumfalnaya Square on Thursday. Limonov, who has faced off with fellow activists over the Strategy 31 cause, was denied approval even as Lyudmila Alexeyeva, head of the Moscow Helsinki Group, was given the go-ahead forContinue reading Moscow police say Limonov rally out of question

On April 12, 2011, Russia and the world will mark the 50th anniversary of the historic flight of Yury Gagarin, the first man in space. Yury Gagarin was born March 9, 1934 in Klushino, a village in the Gzhatsk (now Gagarin) District of Russia’s Smolensk Region. His parents, Alexei and Anna Gagarin, came from localContinue reading Yury Gagarin, Hero of the Soviet Union: Biography

Unbelievable – we have followed this for what seems like years now. This is big news in Russia and I hope it helps the situation. It has been a long process and I know it means a huge change in how America handles adoptions with Russia. There are a lot of Russian children that areContinue reading Russia, America Conclude Treaty on Adoption…

A number of HIV infected people in the Moscow Region rose by 64.5% in January and February in comparison to the same period in 2010, Russia’s sanitary watchdog said on Wednesday. The Federal Service for the Oversight of Consumer Protection and Welfare said currently the number of the HIV infected people in the Moscow RegionContinue reading HIV on rise in Moscow Region by over 60% in Jan.-Feb. y-o-y

Russia’s heavyweight WBA champion Nikolai Valuyev may run in forthcoming elections to the State Duma, the Novgorod Vedomosti newspaper said on Wednesday. Valuyev, 37, has joined the United Russia party last year and received his party membership card from the head of the United Russia branch in his hometown of St. Petersburg, Russia’s second largestContinue reading Russian boxing champ Valuyev may run for parliament

Even though I have been in Russia 5 years now. I still reach for the light switch on the wrong side of the door. Every time… That is my thought this morning as I sip my cup of coffee… It seems that I will most likely never get use to a different placement of theContinue reading Coffee, Light Switches and Traffic Lights…

I have received a whole bunch of e-mails demanding to know why Libya is even being posted about on Windows to Russia… So here is the straight fact: In the high-profile debate surrounding the rights and wrongs of the Libyan revolution, Putin is largely winning at home, and Medvedev in the West. Putin put hisContinue reading Russians: 80%-90% are outraged by not being asked their opinion on bombing Libya…