I was drinking my morning cup of coffee here in Moscow, Russia. I have been following the details of the Opel acquisition by Russia. Russia’s biggest lender Sberbank and automotive giant GAZ – along with Canadian car parts firm Magna – are to buy Opel from US motor giant General Motors, which is filing for […]
I was drinking my morning cup of wonderful coffee here in Moscow, Russia. I was thinking about some tidbits of information that had come to my attention. The first thing that hit me this morning was the fact that the ruble had strengthened a lot against the dollar. It now has breached the 31 ruble […]
Italian investors to develop tourism in Russia’s Altai Territory:Investors from Italy’s South Tirol region have agreed to develop tourism in southwest Siberia’s Altai Territory, the Altai administration said. Russia wants CSTO to be as strong as NATO:Russia is planning to build a strong military contingent in Central Asia within the framework of the Collective Security […]
Hello, Today I found a couple of videos that I thought were pretty cool. The first one is a step back in time. Lets go for a short ride from the back seat of a Volga GAZ Model 21! That is all today and I hope that you enjoyed the videos. Even though I think […]
I was drinking my morning cup of coffee here in Moscow, Russia. I was thinking about the information that I have been following about the Russian company – Digital Sky Technologies (DST) buying a 2% stake in Facebook! It evidently has become a reality and now Facebook who has never made any money yet but […]
Since Summer is here and us Americans think of potato salad. In Russia, the potato salad is a winter favorite and a summer favorite. The Olivier is a must have at the Russian New Years. That means that there are only 500,000,000 recipes called Olivier, Salad Olivier, Russian Salad or Sour Russian Potato Salad. Rumor […]
One of our good readers Blackseabrew brought up in a comment the fact that the world was starting to run short on uranium, for nuclear power plants. He said that the supply was limited. I started to look around at what Russia had available. Here is what I found: Russia’s total uranium reserves are significantly […]
N. Korea may test-launch more missiles soon:North Korea is planning to test-fire additional short-range missiles soon, following Monday’s nuclear test and three missile launches, South Korea’s Yonhap news agency said on Tuesday. Several helicopters fought fire in the center of Moscow:20 fire teams and four helicopters fought fire in the center of Moscow. It took […]