Windows to Russia

TOKYO The current leader in 2019 calendar sales at a popular chain store in Japan is not a fresh-faced young idol, nor is it a sexy heart-throb actor. Rather, Vladimir Putin, the 66-year-old president of Russia, takes the cake in that category. That’s right, the very same exercise buff that also has claim to a […]

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All the Russian jokes on the internet are tactical, The strategic jokes are in the ICBMs like fortune cookies… WtR

Tomorrow I will write a post on this last round of tests… I do not feel good enough to write much today and that is that… WtR

Something that I was disappointed by when I first came to Russia was the lack of peanut butter….seriously, I missed my peanut butter and when we found it….it was expensive… I remember 900 plus rubles and that was when the exchange was 25 to 1 with dollars. Now it 65 to 1 it is 134 […]

Russians love Bears and they will eat them also if given a chance….How about this Christmas having Roasted Bear Meat? Roast Bear recipe… Ingredients Bear Meat: 1000 g (1 kilo) bear meat cut into 10, 100 gram sections… 10 ea pork belly lard pieces… 1 tbsp butter… Marinade (see the recipe of Marinade for Bear […]

“Our country is, as they say, destined by the heavens to feed the whole planet. And we’ll try and do that,” Medvedev told journalists of Russian TV channels in a major interview aired on Thursday. Russia’s grain exports surge more than 54% this year Apart from being the country’s “destiny,” the foods plainly make “nice […]

Kutya is a sweet whole grained pudding and is especially popular around the holiday times in Russia. My suggestion is to make this treat several days ahead of time, as it get better with age in the refrigerator and it will last up to two weeks if kept cold… It is a food that is […]

Photo taken on Dec. 10, 2018 shows a Tu-160 strategic bomber at the Simon Bolivar International Airport, in Maiquetia, Vargas State, Venezuela. Two Russian Tupolev Tu-160 strategic bombers have arrived in Venezuela, the Russian defense ministry said in a statement. According to Russian news report, Venezuelan Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino Lopez welcomed the Russian warplanes, […]

The Yamal LNG gas liquefaction project is underway at the South Tambeyskoye field on the Yamal Peninsula.The project operator is Yamal LNG, a joint venture of Russian gas producer Novatek, France’s Total and China’s CNPC and Silk Road Fund.Initially, the plant was designed to consist of three trains (gas liquefaction and purification facilities), each with […]