Windows to Russia

It is way too soon to bet the house fortune on the reliability of reports by the Washington Post (Washington, DC) and The Guardian (United Kingdom) on President Obama’s data harvesting program, known for the moment as PRISM. With the hot pursuit of mainstream media reporters underway by the US Department of Justice (Associated Press, […]

Russian Bees, a bee that collects pollen at even 38 degrees Fahrenheit or 3 degrees Celsius and endures hardships that only Russian Bees could understand. When winter is 7 months a year and pollen time is short, Russian Bees have to “get er done” or else. It seems that Russian Bees have adapted to such […]

Normally while drinking a cup of coffee for breakfast, the thinking’s of cottage cheese (Tvorog) would not be brought up. But living in Russia has changed those thinking’s… In Russia cottage cheese is more than a, “I eat it for losing weight and its great with tuna,” food substance. In Russia it is a mainstay […]

Non Lawsuit: If Iran sees that Russia has changed its position on the delivery of S-300 missile systems, the Islamic Republic will also “change its conduct,” Iran’s Ambassador to Moscow Mahmoud-Reza Sajjadi told Interfax News Agency… He said that Iran resorted to judicial prosecution after Russia refused to deliver the systems to the Islamic Republic […]

Metro Fires in Moscow have been an issue all day today and Sveta took the bus all the way to work today. I did not have to try to change Sveta’s mind about riding the metro today. Sveta’s mother called and said stay off the metro. Oh by the way a metro is a subway […]

“Timber Smuggling” in Russia: I read Hardy Boys books to Sveta all the time. Sveta just loves those books and we have now read 18 of the books. So with my coffee this morning, I was thinking about an article that I found in the news. Then I smiled as I realized that this could […]

Politician – Be they in America or be they in any other part of the world. They are vain, rude, conceited and egotistical. A politician is a class of human that has no connections with real people and these are the people that we elect to run our world. I have talked about this before […]

Comments about my death is common. I get several a day and sometimes when I write a really good post. I get a hundred death threats. It is really sad that this happens and it happens at its worst, when I talk good about Russia… Oh! I get good comments, but they are never more […]

Cold War: This time Russia has nothing to lose and everything to gain: That cup of wonderful coffee this morning led me to do some thinking’s and those thinking’s went down the path of the old cold war. The new cold war that I am seeing developing and it is being finagled a little bit […]