Windows to Russia

Sveta and I were stunned by the opening ceremony of the Sochi Paralympics. It was better than the regular Olympics and the theme was “Breaking the Ice,” which honors the strength of the human spirit and explains how important it is to change the perceptions and promote inclusiveness in society. The Ceremony’s theme for the […]

Iustum et tenacem propositi virum non civium ardor prava iubentium, non vultus instantis tyranni mente quatit solida. The man who is tenacious of purpose in a rightful cause is not shaken from his firm resolve by the frenzy of his fellow citizens clamoring for what is wrong, or by the tyrant’s threatening countenance. Book III, […]

How about a Russian Orthodox Church located in the Antarctica? How about it that fact it is a permanently manned church? How about taking Orthodoxy to a whole different level? The Trinity Church is a tiny Russian Orthodox church in Antarctica. The ambitious project to establish a permanent church or even a monastery on Antarctica […]

I am not a RT supporter and I am not a RT lover. I think that RT has become very anti-Russian. Hence I was laughing as the attacks against RT have commenced in full force and the planted news-people are getting their voice out after many paydays from the underhanded press of the U.S. I […]

We had to take a trip to the center of Moscow yesterday and find the building in the top photo. That is where we received our entrance passes for the Sochi 2014 Paralympics. We decided to get them in Moscow and not try to worry about that stage of the process in Sochi. I guess […]

Russia is looking East not West! We slap sanctions on countries and try to hurt those countries. We succeed in hurting those countries and we succeed just as successfully in hurting our own country. Unless we have no trade what so ever with that country, we suffer, dollar for dollar, as much as they do. […]

So the US leadership is supporting the creation of One Nation Under God in Ukraine. As one of the key groups involved in the militant overthrow of an elected government has stated in its party platform, “a system of the dictatorship of the Nation with regard to the socioeconomic interests of the people” needs to […]

and the video below is the whole conversation, that I discovered… ‘Behind snipers not Yanukovich but somebody from new coalition’ – Ashton’s leaked phone tape… Like we already knew this, but as the west is ignoring this news, we still are the only ones that know this… It has been proven true and still ignored […]

Hari Sreenivasan interviews Stephen Cohen, professor of Russian Studies at New York University and of politics at Princeton University for his analysis… (Read More about Stephen Cohen) This professor gets it and understands the situation. I was actually amazed and I was even more amazed that he was allowed to express himself on world news… […]