A Russian Observant Windows…
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