“Europe needs a peace pact”: Sergey Lavrov delivered a foreign policy thesis at the Munich Security Conference…

Violation of international law by NATO threatens the world order, says Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. The Minister also proposed to conclude a “peace pact for Europe”, suggesting that this may serve as a starting basis, as he pointed out that the issue of European missile defense threatens to divide the branches of European civilization… […]

Russia: Temples and Tulips of Kalmykia!

On one of our trips, (the one that I lost all the pictures) we had the opportunity to go to Russia’s republic of Kalmykia which is the only region in Europe where Buddhism is the dominant religion. Temples were destroyed there during the Soviet era and Buddhism went into decline. But in a new age […]

The Conundrum of Iran…

This story by Leonid Savin, political scientist, Strategic Culture Foundation expert, was published in International Affairs magazine. The EU oil embargo recently slapped on Iran and the threats voiced by the US and other Western countries to come up with further sanctions against the country led watchers to conclude that an armed conflict between Iran […]

The Soviets Made Champagne Also!

I was drinking my morning cup of coffee and watching a video that Svet put on the Russian Video Blog! A fact that I had no idea about, was that the Soviet Union made their own Champagne! I always thought that only the French had Champagne *(Champagne is a sparkling wine produced by inducing the […]

Russia: Remembering The Neutron Bomb?

I was drinking my morning cup of coffee and reading about a subject that brought back memories of an era, I hope stays gone. Thirty years ago the USSR informed the world it had successfully tested one of the deadliest weapons ever invented – a neutron bomb. The day has gone down in arms race […]

Russia’s Lavrov – Quote of the day: (Feb. 1st, 2012)

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said: “The people who are obsessed with removing regimes in the region (Middle East), they should be really thinking about the broader picture. And I’m afraid that if this vigor to change regimes persists, we are going to witness a very bad situation much, much, much broader than just Syria, […]