Windows to Russia

This week, Russian Orthodox believers began observing the seven-week Lent and will abstain from meat, fish, eggs, dairy products and alcohol until Easter is celebrated on May 5, 2013… Lent, is the 40 day period of fasting and prayer before Easter. The 40 days represents the time Jesus spent in the desert overcoming temptation by […]

To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries: Aldous Huxley… I have mentioned many things over the years and many things that I have mentioned are about the strange ways that Russians do things. I thought that today I would talk about these things, that even after 7 full years, I […]

EU, Cyprus Act ‘Like Bull in China Shop’ – Russian PM… Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev on Wednesday slammed the European Union and Cyprus for their handling of the island nation’s debt woes. Medvedev told a group of European media outlets in an interview that the crisis had been entirely mishandled, undermining confidence in financial […]