Windows to Russia

Today April 17th, 2011 is a day of celebration across Russia. The Orthodox Church has its equivalent of Palm Sunday. Since Russia does not have climate conductive to growing palm trees, willow twigs are used instead palms. In the Russian Orthodox Church, Ukrainian Orthodox Church, Ukrainian Catholic Church, and Ruthenian Catholic Church, the custom developed […]

This side of the world is not having a good time with the Western attitude and it is showing in all the news all over this side of the world. I am seeing a underlining worry about the situation in Libya. It was well known that Libya had been in good graces with the West […]

Amateur shooter kills friend at Moscow firearms club: A university worker has fatally wounded a colleague at a shooting range in Moscow. The owner of the club may be charged with criminal negligence… Supreme Court rules earlier extension of Khodorkovsky arrest illegal: Russia’s Supreme Court has ruled that the latest extension of arrest for ex-Yukos […]

It looks like Medvedev showed a touch of bitterness over the abuse of the UN mandate on Libya. He interprets the mandate as he sees it and expects it to be fulfilled. But there is a problem with that… As much as Medvedev wants to believe that the West is paved in good intentions and […]

SANYA (Hainan province, China), April 14 (Itar-Tass) — Russia is strongly concerned over an abused mandate under the UN Security Council resolution on Libya, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev told reporters here on Thursday. Commenting on the current situation in Libya the president noted that “the UN Security Council resolution should be fulfilled in compliance with […]

I was sipping that wonderful cup of coffee this morning in Moscow, Russia and doing some thinking’s that involved businesses that fail… You see in America for 10 years I was a trouble shooter for ServiceMaster Inc. during the era that they had a huge Food Service business that they acquired by buying out American […]

QUESTION: Mr President, the member states of what has now become the “Five” are all very different, with a mass of mutual contradictions, directly competing for global investment. Is there anything that really unites the BRICS states apart from high growth rates and the aspiration to increase their weight in the world? And the second question: how do […]

Obviously, the main goal of this decision (reforming of international monetary and financial system by the BRICS countries) is to boost the international importance of the national currencies of the BRICS countries, but basically the greater usage of the national currencies in international settlement and international transactions will clearly increase the demand for these currencies […]

Moscow police have uncovered an “underground town” housing more than 100 illegal migrants from Central Asia in the capital’s east, a Moscow criminal police officer said on Thursday. Police officers together with security and migration officials have raided a factory near the Mozhaiskoye highway following a report about a large illegal settlement in its territory, […]

It has been a back and forth issue. One minute the sale of the Mistral is final and the next minute the sale of the Mistral has failed. Then the cycle starts all over again… (Link to our articles on the Mistral) So today the news is full of the report: France and Russia have […]