Windows to Russia

That cup of coffee is extra special today. I got my sweetie with me in Ukraine. We are at the Kiev Train Station at this moment… I really like the Kiev train station. It is like home away from home and I have spent many hours waiting for trains at this station… Sveta is here […]

Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari will pay an official visit to Russia on May 11-14, the Kremlin said on Thursday. The visit will take place on an invitation from President Dmitry Medvedev, the presidential press service said, adding that talks between Medvedev and Zardari will take place on May 12. The visit was announced just […]

Media should cover issues concerning health care and especially children’s vaccinations extremely precisely and responsibly, avoiding the dissemination of medieval myths, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said on Thursday. “Our media are free, but they should be responsible. They, of course, should not spread grand old Middle Ages [ideas], when saying that vaccinations are a devil-like […]

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on Thursday instructed the Agriculture and Energy ministries to solve the problem with gasoline shortages in the country to ensure the start of spring cultivation. The government boosted gasoline export tariffs to nearly 44 percent from May 1 to fight local shortages which started in mid-March in some regions. Russian […]

A Moscow court sentenced ultranationalist Nikita Tikhonov to life in jail on Friday for the murder of human-rights lawyer Stanislav Markelov and journalist Anastasia Baburova in 2009. The court also sentenced Tikhonov’s accomplice and civil partner Yevgeniya Khasis to 18 years in prison. Markelov and Baburova, who worked for the liberal Novaya Gazeta newspaper, were […]