Windows to Russia

Sveta is going to whoop me today! So don’t tell her that I went out in -12c and snowing like crazy and went shopping for New Years… It is so hard to shop for a woman and Sveta is real particular about things, but that does not mean I will not try… 🙂 The photos […]

1. Little things are important and 2. Never loose an opportunity to mold a young person in the correct way and 3. Never judge a book by its cover… Two things stand out very strong in my life as as kid of 9 or 10 years old. These two things are still in my mind […]

Found this tidbit of info laying around the ignore trash pile, of the news section of the Internet… Military and intelligence sources report: The Russian foreign minister’s statement was a message to Washington, DC that the transfer of Syria’s weapons of mass destruction to one or two protected sites was under Russian control. This had […]

Sri Lanka during the war years bore the brunt of the global phenomenon of the growth and proliferation of the so-called Non-Government Organisations (NGOs). The secessionist war provided the opportunity for international NGOs to establish themselves in the country and to forcefully intervene in national affairs under the guise of humanitarian and anti-corruption activities and […]

“Measures against persons involved in abuse of fundamental human rights and freedoms including those of Russian citizens” Approved by the State Duma on December 21, 2012 and approved by the Federation Council on December 26, 2012. Article 1 Measures against persons involved in abuse of fundamental human rights and freedoms of Russian citizens shall include: […]

MOSCOW, December 28 (Itar-Tass) — The Russian emergency airplane is flying to Egypt to take a Russian woman, who had the premature delivery during her vacations. The airplane Il-76 took off at 11:23 Moscow time on Friday from the Moscow regional airfield Ramenskoye to Cairo, the information department of the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations […]

But that is not what you would believe as you look at the news all over America. Lets look at the headline news for the USA, in fact lets look at something that seems to be a better show of what really is going on in the minds of Americans… Twitter: The five biggest stories […]

I keep reading how Americans are “baffled” that the Russian government would “use helpless children as pawns”… Now you know how Russians felt when the U.S. government insisted on passing the Magnitsky Act, and when they saw that government apparently willing to expand the secret list to include officials who are perceived to be guilty […]

A few days until the end of 2012! That is what is going through my mind as I sip that cup of coffee and contemplate my life. I realize that I have had a full life and I also realize that I am lucky to be here on earth. There seems to be a thousand […]

All the senators unanimously voted in support of the bill… The bill, dubbed the “Dima Yakovlev Law” also imposes a visa ban and asset freeze on US officials who violate the rights of Russian citizens abroad, and bans the US sponsorship of NGOs that operate in Russia as well as the work of US citizens […]