Windows to Russia

Clean Monday. (On Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday of the 1st week of Great Lent the Great Vespers the canon of St. Andrew of Crete is read). New Hieromartyr Peter priest (1930). Virgin-martyr Anna (1937). St. Sebastian, monk of Poshekhonye (1542). New Martyr John Calphas (“the Apprentice”) at Constantinople (1575) (Greek). Martyr Theoclitas, martyred with […]

This picture below is spreading like wildfire over the Live-journal net work of blogs… I will give you a few things that stand out easily… Putin has a halo… (Like a Saint does…) Medvedev is standing on a platform by Apple Computer… (Hmm…) The hat in Mayor Yuri’s hand… (Classic Russian…) Just have a long […]

In Russia, (just like in most of the world) they drink lots of beer. Well for the really thirsty beer drinker they have a super sized beer bottle…..

Sveta and I have a real issue in Russia finding shoes to fit me. I wear a size 49 Russian style and that equates into a size 14 and a half, American style… In America sometimes I could find my size in a good work shoe from Dr. Sholl’s and they were made in China. […]

I was drinking my morning cup of coffee here in Moscow, Russia! I was thinking about a little fun I had yesterday with another blog that decided to insult me and call me various sorts of names. They even included my Sweetie, Svet in their attacks and that kinda upset the old Bear…. But today […]

World Debt to GDP… Russia’s government debt will be kept under 20% of GDP in the next few years, Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday… The debt will only be 11% of the country’s GDP by the end of the year 2010, 13.6% of GDP by the end of 2011, 15.7% by the end of 2012 […]