Windows to Russia

I have to agree with Russia on the issue of banning EU veggies. I keep reading almost daily about another person dying from the E.coli strain that has been unleashed. Russia has enough issues without inviting death across the border and since Sveta and I live in Russia we really do not want EU veggies […]

By Galina Stolyarova The St. Petersburg Times Published: June 22, 2011 (Issue # 1662) When Yevgenia Gurova, a 21-year-old student of the Northwest Institute of Publishing, reached the nearest metro station on June 16 to travel back home after taking an exam — Gurova is in the middle of her end-of-year exams — she discovered […]

MOSCOW, June 22 (Itar-Tass) — People in Moscow, St Petersburg, the capitals of ex-Soviet republics and other cities are to hold a vigil of memory on Wednesday. Yekaterina Abramova, director of the Interstate TV and Radio Network MIR (peace), has told Itar-Tass, “The vigil, dedicated to the 70th anniversary of the outbreak of the (1941-1945) […]

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This morning while sipping that cup of coffee. I was thinking about how life seems to imitate whether animate or inanimate. This thinking came from the last few days here in Russia… Sveta and I just purchased a Asus Eee pc. It is a tiny little thing and we are going to use it on […]

This morning over that wonderful cup of coffee that always makes a great start to any day. I was doing some thinking’s about this weekend that just passed… We got into a heated argument with another gentleman and several ladies over an issue with the flats we live in. It was over installing a door […]

“Any leader, especially one who occupies the president’s office has to be willing to run in elections. However, it is another question whether he would make that decision for himself,” stated Dmitry Medvedev in his interview to the Financial Times. ­Full transcript of President Dmitry Medvedev’s interview to Financial Times ­Russian Federation President Dmitry Medvedev’s […]

A country of cyborg and avatars: As a rule, Russians don’t really like to plan ahead. An innocent question like “what do you plan to do this summer?” tends to provoke frank bewilderment. Most likely, the person asked will shrug his shoulders philosophically and say: “We’ll see what happens.” The last 20 years in Russia […]

If you follow Windows to Russia then you know that I have lots of articles about Viktor Bout. I think he is being held for information purposes. The US government knows that as slow as the judicial system is in America, that they have plenty of time to interrogate him. When he is finally released […]

One of the buzz words recently has been “reorientation,” but it is a misnomer. Russia cares for its clients and is most unlikely to go against the interests of its key customers – the European Union and European consumers. Russia exports mind-boggling amounts of energy to the EU – something like 5.5% to 6% of […]