Windows to Russia

Bobalki (also spelled bobalky, babalki, babalky) are baked balls of dough. They can be served sweet with ground poppy seeds and honey or savory with sauerkraut and onions. They are a favorite for New Years – and during Lent times, but these balls of mouth watering cooked dough are delicious any time of year… So […]

Putin signed into law an interesting bill. This bill will determinately give family members something to contemplate as they ignore Little Jimmy, as he makes a bomb in the family basement. Or they give or receive money, as Little Jimmy tours the world and tries to blow things up… Under the new law, all damages  […]

No Gingerbread Man in Russia, but gingerbread we do have and it is a taste treat to delight the senses. I know of a place in Tula, Russia that makes pryanik and when Sveta and I travel, you can find these huge cookies at many a roadside stand, with a babushka keeping an eye on […]

Edward Snowden is being asked if need be, to testify, by Germany and a meeting has taken place. This meeting has verified that Germany wants information from Snowden about Washington’s wiretapping of Merkel’s phone… During the meeting, Snowden made it “clear that he knows a lot,” Greens lawmaker Hans-Christian Stroebele told ARD channel. “He expressed […]

This video caught my eye and ear awhile back and I saved it to post on a day that I was drinking a cup of coffee and trying to understand my feels of why I think Russia is a wonderful place to live… The villages in Russia are indescribably beautiful and this video shows that […]

Mascots… This post has a count down widget to the Winter Olympics 2014. I posted this on the day that there was 100 days until the Olympics 2014… 2014 Winter Olympics is on  Friday, 7 February 2014 100 days, 12 hours remain till 2014 Winter Olympics Country:  Russia City:  Sochi Official Website Sochi Olympics Posted […]

Going to the store (any store) here in Russia is very interesting. I have grown found of shopping here and most of the time I have no issues with the half-ass backwards way that things work, as you try to spend your hard earned money. It literally is impossible to get a Russian salesperson to […]

This rainy, cold and miserable morning here in Russia is accented to acceptable, with a great cup of coffee and that is just what I am sipping (A great cup of coffee!) as I am looking at pissed off countries all over the world. Pissed at the spying by America… Oh I realize that you […]

I was sipping that wonderful cup of coffee and it hit me as I started the second cup of java. The USA government has allowed Pandora’s box to be opened and by the time all the contents leak out… (I will let you think about that a second!) MOSCOW: US officials told The Washington Post […]

“History is a story. That’s why we fight over history. We make sense of ourselves, the world and ourselves in the world through the struggle to tell the truth through stories. Facts have to be contextualized to become the truth. And that truth is a struggle that is constantly fought over. It is not given. […]