Day: June 6, 2011

Russia Celebrates Alexander Pushkin’s Birthday Today…

Today Russians mark International Russian Language Day, as well as the 212th birth anniversary of the Great Russian poet Alexander Pushkin… Alexander Pushkin is considered by many all over the world to be the greatest Russian poet and the founder of modern Russian literature… I do know that as Sveta and I travel Russia and

Coffee and Contemplations of Medvedev…

Coffee this cool morning in Moscow was excellent. Nothing better when the temperature is around 10 degrees Centigrade (50 F.)… I was doing some thinking’s about Medvedev, the Russian president. I realized that he has become basically (and by his own actions) a lame duck as president. He has lost much of the respect that