Windows to Russia

9-11: I still feel deeply for the victims, both on the day of the event and the much much larger mass of victims going on even now, years later after the initial event, but I do not feel for the government that covered up the truth of what happened that day many years ago now, […]

U.S. Mom Who Sent Boy Back to Russia Loses Lawsuit 15:46 10/09/2012 A U.S. woman who sent her adopted son back to Moscow lost on Monday a lawsuit she filed against Russian children’s rights ombudsman Pavel Astakhov. A Moscow court ordered Torry Hansen to pay 50,000 rubles ($1,500) in legal costs. Hansen had sued Astakhov […]

Hmm! This was sent to me by e-mail and now I see what the stink that has been going around is about! I left the article basically the way I got it and yes it looks like it is translated. I have corrected a few things, but I promised that I would leave it alone. […]

Americans Are become just plain “Lacking of knowledge, information, or awareness about something in particular:” or how about “ignorant” for the short version? That is my coffee thinking’s this morning… However, my message is not intended to offer a scientific assessment. It is not intended to cajole your views! It was intentionally subjective and anecdotal. […]

I follow and I vote in a set of polls that are literally done everyday! Usually 10,000 to 20,000 people vote on these polls and they really are a lot better sense of Russia and what is going on than a poll that talks to a few hundred Siberians about issues in Moscow… 🙂 Here […]

But somehow one of them will come back to life as he tries to figure out another way to play troll games… It is strange how they think that they do not show up like a sore thumb… Why it is pretty obvious when, one comment comes from Germany, then from Florida, then from Texas […]

“Capitalism – the source of all the problems that we are experiencing,” – said the organizer of the march. Interesting, I heard that more reporters showed up than protestors… MOSCOW, September 9 – RIA Novosti. Anticapitalist march and rally on clearing in the center of Moscow collected about five hundred participants and members of the […]

Russian Khalva comes originally from Middle East and is especially popular in Kazakhstan. It is made of walnuts or sunflower seeds and rich syrup. Excellent addition to your gourmet knowledge! Halva (халва) is used in Russia as a traditional dessert. Sometimes Russian children are given halva as candy… I know that on visits to Russian […]

This is good news and we will see how this all works out in the end… On visa agreement, which comes into force on September 9, issuing multiple-entry visas valid for three years become standard practice when issuing visas to citizens of the United States to visit Russia for Russians visiting the United States. “When […]

Russia will double its grain exports to 40 million tons a year by 2020, President Vladimir Putin said at the APEC summit in Vladivostok on Friday. “We project that our country will be producing 120 million-125 million tons of grain a year by 2020, which will increase our export capacity to 30 million-35 million tons, […]