Windows to Russia

Just simply a post of pictures of our village, the area and surrounding villages… We have tons of pictures but only room for a few. Maybe if people want we would post some more… Life is wonderful at the village… Windows to Russia! Thoughts from Russia with Coffee… (windowstorussia.com) Fires are Dwindling – Our Village […]

New law went into effect not long ago in Russia. A warning must cover about a third of the front of the pack of cigarettes… Sveta took this picture of one of her colleagues cigarette pack… Nice simple to the point warning… курение убивает Smoking Kills Yup it sure does… Windows to Russia!

Lets have some news from Russia with our morning cup of coffee or tea: The Bank of Russia sold a little over $1bn worth of foreign currency on the domestic market in September, First Deputy Chairman of the Bank of Russia Alexei Ulyukayev told journalists today. The regulator sold $0.6bn worth of foreign currency on […]

Jet Streams… The announcement has been made on local news and the Russian authorities are getting ready for an extremely cold Winter (even by Russian standards)… Windows to Russia! Russia: It Gets Cold In Siberia! (windowstorussia.com) Russia’s “Cold Pole” Getting Heated Up… (windowstorussia.com) Santa is Real! (windowstorussia.com) Life on this Earth Just Changed …The North […]

A little tid-bit of information that I posted a couple of weeks ago…. Update on Story: Ukraine says that the tanks were bond for Kenya and there was 33 tanks and parts and ammo…. (Hmmmmm oh OK!) The United States and Israel have consistently refused to rule out the possibility of military action against Iran […]

Today we remember victims of Great Patriotic War (how we call WWII in Russia). It started 22 of June 1941 at 4:10 am fascists cross the border of Soviet Union near Brest. That’s how Russia Today describes it: One of the bloodiest pages in the history of Russia and the former Soviet countries is being […]

I was drinking my morning cup of coffee here in Moscow, Russia and looking at a video about a press release that Medvedev did. In a surprise move: Dmitry Medvedev discussed Democracy and the Khodorkovsky case in an interview with Novaya Gazeta, which is known for its critical stance towards the Kremlin…