Russia and God…

Give you something from the Western press to chew on today… Moscow: By Fred Weir Russia emerges as Europe’s most God-believing nation: Two decades after the collapse of the USSR, history’s most atheistic state, the vast majority of Russians attest to a belief in God – more than in any other European country – according […]

Coffee and Cheating in Russian Schools…

I had to smile and chuckle at breakfast this morning. Russia is having a conniption fit. A fit over something that is so common place in the Western world that it has become ignored by Western society in general… MOSCOW, June 16 (Itar-Tass) – Moscow university students who tried to pass graduate tests for schoolchildren, […]

NATO and Libya…

Looks like NATO is struggling. France says that they need to pull out the only aircraft carrier in the Libyan war. NATO members are running out of bombs. Qaddafi having a good time playing chess this last weekend with the Russian head of the World Chess Federation, Kirsan Ilyumzhinov. (Now that was a psychological blow […]

Russia Says Do Not Drive on Melting Roads…

This is interesting… Russia has introduced restrictions on the movement of heavy trucks on highways in summertime. At temperatures above 32 degrees centigrade (89.6 F), trucks are allowed to run on highways from 9 pm to 9 am. The restrictions were imposed in order to preserve highways in good condition and will be in force […]

Coffee and the Muscovites are Gone…

This time of the year is strange. That was the thinking’s with my morning cup of coffee. You see, the Russians living in Moscow simply disappear. The children that overwhelmed the playgrounds have all vanished. Oh there is an occasional lost straggler, but for the most part the Muscovites are gone, or at least the […]