Category: Russia

Russia: Wake Up!


(Reuters) HELSINKI — Russian trucks have lined up for 100 kilometers at the Finnish border ahead of the holiday season, prompting Helsinki to ask the European Union for help eliminating the record blockage. While trucks are stuck at the border, retailers in Russia and the transportation firms are losing money, and local people are afraid […]

Russia: Look at Australian Christmas!


Hello, Since I was a little kid I always wondered how it could be New Year in Australia?! Neither snow nor a fir tree… How could there be a real, New Year & Christmas! When Kyle found an article of our Australian friend , I realized it could be Christmas in Australia! And now we […]

Russia: Putin "Person of the Year" Time Magazine!


Just an item off the news wire:=========================NEW YORK (AP) — Time magazine on Tuesday named Russian President Vladimir Putin its “Person of the Year.” The nod went to the Russian leader because of Putin’s “extraordinary feat of leadership in taking a country that was in chaos and bringing it stability,” said Richard Stengel, Time ‘s […]

Russian News: December 18th, 2007


This is Russian News day! RBC, 17.12.2007, Moscow 19:55:09.Over half of Russians (53 percent) believe the recent State Duma elections to have been free, democratic and fair, an opinion poll held by the Russian Public Opinion Research Center revealed. 19 percent of respondents held the opposite point of view. The opinion that the elections were […]

Russia: Posts to Read!


I am drinking my morning cup of coffee and thinking about some of the past post that we have done. So I am going to list 5 posts from the last two months of the Blog. That way you do not have to search……(click; read more for links) http://kylekeeton.com/2007/11/russia-poem-translation-by-reader.htmlhttp://kylekeeton.com/2007/11/svet-sunday-all-in-your-hands.htmlhttp://kylekeeton.com/2007/11/svet-sundays-strong-people-of-russia.htmlhttp://kylekeeton.com/2007/11/russia-secret-cities.htmlhttp://kylekeeton.com/2007/12/russia-art-of-toasting-bread.html Kyle comments always welcome.