Windows to Russia

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

I am drinking a good cup of hot chicory and have the extra heater on. I got a little bit cold.: It was about -27 below Celsius as I walked the dog and my eyes started to tear up from the cold. That is when I realized that my left eye had frozen shut. Not […]

Under the title “Why the United States does not want to elect Putin as the Russian president”  Komsomolskaya Pravda daily quoted some excerpts from a survey of a famous US political scientist and economist William Engdahl. Engdahl’s survey was published in Germany. The newspaper noted that Engdahl is convinced the US is seeking to discredit […]

Russia has been the most vocal voice against a Western backed death resolution against Syria. I have said all along that China has the same feelings. Well it is official now as China has come out from the background and expressed their sentiments on the Syrian subject… UNITED NATIONS, February 1 (Itar-Tass) — China will […]

The word on the street is that very soon this side of the world’s countries will be back to doing business with their own currencies, oil, gold, silver and plus other commodities. Barter is going to become a revived word on this side of the world… It looks like India has really woke up and […]

The endgame of the global financial crisis of 2008-09 has begun. The West seeks to inflate away its massive debt – by exporting inflation to the emerging East. The World Bank recently warned developing countries to prepare for the risk of the world going into a slump like the global downturn in 2008-09 owing to […]

Russia is taking a hardline against the West on Syria and Iran. This all came about after the West lied through its nose over Libya. Russia knows that Syria is being slandered in the MSM and they know that Iran has been slandered for years the same way. Medvedev lost a lot of respect in […]