Windows to Russia

Still struggling from the flue and other issues in the last month, but this morning I was able to walk again and it felt good….it also is getting cooler. Fall is here the trees are starting to change and I still never found summer. I called, I looked, I even turned over rocks and logs. […]

“The weather whispers…” by Svetlana Prostova “The weather whispers to borrow but jump.” Saying in Russian aeroclubs. Hi, That was a sunny day… I was one in the group of thirty, people who was ready to make there first parachute jump. I knew I was crazy but I knew I would make it. I was […]

Could someone please remind Pompeo and Bolton that al-Qaeda are the bad guys? After six years of a foreign-backed regime-change operation in Syria, where hundreds of thousands have been killed and the country nearly fell into the hands of ISIS and al-Qaeda, the Syrian government is on the verge of victory. Assad is hardly a […]

That world is Russia… August is vacation month and I mean vacation month. Yes, Russians have lots of holidays and lots of other vacation times, but August is almost like a mandatory, take a vacation month and many take the whole month. In Russia people get a full month or more of vacation off of […]

Svetochka loves her Sammy the Volga and no other car matters! And that is just right….but… The largest Russian automobile exhibition, the Moscow International Automobile Salon – MIAS 2018, started on August 29 in the capital’s exhibition complex Crocus Expo. The leaders of the mass segment are returning to the exhibition, promising premieres and novelties, […]

MOSCOW, August 29. /TASS/. Russian President Vladimir Putin said in his televised address on Wednesday the retirement age for women should be 60 rather than 63.”The retirement age for women should not increase more than for men. That’s why I believe it is necessary to reduce the increase in the retirement age for women proposed […]

We got home safe and sound. Traffic in Moscow really, really, really and did I say Really? Sucks. But we got home. You have to understand, everyone is coming back from the villages and dachas….school time! Russians: They are back from the Dachas Last night the playground at our flats was packed to the gills […]

“But two years later, the vital Kremlin informants have largely gone silent, leaving the C.I.A. and other spy agencies in the dark”… WASHINGTON — In 2016, American intelligence agencies delivered urgent and explicit warnings about Russia’s intentions to try to tip the American presidential election — and a detailed assessment of the operation afterward — […]

New noiseless and environment-friendly vehicles will be used in the VDNKh area. The first 10 electric buses will come into service on 1 September, ahead of the planned deadline. They will serve the routes in the VDNKh area, Deputy Moscow Mayor and Head of the Department of Transport and Road Infrastructure Development Maxim Liksutov said. […]

A whole bunch of misalignment about the status of the cookie monster law in the EU… As a black bar pops up near the top of the page, just answer and all is good. If you want don’t answer, cookies blocked and all is still good. So to comply with any possible issues arising. Please […]