Windows to Russia

Chrin Horseradish Beets… In Russia they do not like crushed red pepper, black pepper, white pepper and or any type of pepper, but talk about horseradish and you find that Russians sneak it into everything and then complain about pepper and hot spicy food. I find it interesting that their mustard’s and sauces will have […]

Last Thoughts; This post makes five hundred articles for the year 2014. Windows to Russia has 4554 articles as of the writing of this post the 4555th article. I still remember my first one hundred and I was so proud of that accomplishment. Windows to Russia started officially in 2005, it never became a real […]

I am wishing for the New Year, that the United States government withdraws from the world and leaves the world at peace and harmony. I am wishing for the deaths by drones to end all over the world. I am wishing for America to hug, shake hands, and warmly greet the world as an equal, […]

I may not want to live my life in North Korea, but then there is a lot of places I would not spend the rest of my life at in the world and that includes the United States of America. That said, unlike not desiring to ever go back to America. I do wish to […]

I asked Santa for this… I did ask Santa for the laptop at that link above, but it looked like it would not happen. we decided to look at other cheaper computers, such as HP, Acer, and such. The DNS laptop was just too high and we could get basically the same power for 5,000 […]

Leaders tell it the way its. They do not fluff it, nor sugar coat it… “For the government, for your agencies, we cannot afford this long holiday, at least this year – you know what I mean,” Putin said… “The hardships we are facing are not only external, they are caused not only by the […]

China is launching trading in forwards and swaps between the yuan and three more currencies, including the Russian ruble, from December 29, the China Foreign Exchange Trade System managed by the People’s Bank of China announced on Friday. China is also launching trading in contracts with the Malaysian ringgit and the New Zealand dollar from […]

Merry Christmas from Sveta and Kyle at Windows to Russia…

Koliadki are Russian Christmas cookies that are made to treat all the people who come to sing carols at your home. These cookies can have the many different types of fillings… Kolyadka (Ukrainian: колядка, Russian: колядка) is a traditional caroling song usually sung in Eastern Slavic countries (Belarus, Russia and Ukraine) only on Orthodox Christmas […]

I have been here nine years and when I first came to Russia, I thought that we were the same. I thought Americans and Russians, basically the same people. We look the same, we act the same on the surface, we smile the same, we walk the same, we talk the same, we laugh the […]