Windows to Russia

I spent a little time last week traveling around and doing business in other countries, other than Russia, that is. That is why I have been absent from posting very much and to be truthful, I no longer have a desire to see westerners come to Russia. Russia is on the right track in life […]

Snowden may be walking around Russia within a few days. Possibly as soon as today 24th of July, 2013. So a large number of people in Russia are waiting for the word from the officials… It usually takes the Russian immigration authorities up to seven days for an initial assessment of an asylum request, according […]

Email I received and if any Russian reading this desires to come back to Russia, then drop me a e-mail at admin@windowstorussia.com and I will get it sent to the proper place… Hello Kyle, I’ve read your article. Very interesting and very thoughtful. Yes you are right many Russians who left in 90’s but couldn’t […]

Kissel is a fruit-based beverage, its name comes from the ancient Slavic word meaning ‘sour,’ because many of the Russians fruits are sour fruits. In Russia the most popular are gooseberries, cranberries, cherries and black currants… History has it, kissel saved one ancient Russian city from a siege and starvation. The city elder gathered all […]

As Sveta and I travel Russia we see a lot of farms. The farms are not totally the same as I was use to in America, but they are definitely farms. I grew up with a world of individual farmers farming the land and I know that is changing in America everyday as I write […]

This is my world that I live in! May your world be as wonderful and you be as blessed as I am… The village, Boza (the dog) and my sweetie – Sveta… Life does not get any better than this and I thank God everyday for my life as it is now. For it has […]

Sveta learned to paint and she was the best helper in the world. We painted for days, as we fought the mosquitoes, deer flies and horseflies. It was all worth it as you can see from the photos that the place has brightened up a whole bunch… The village was beautiful and was surprisingly packed […]

Today, as the rich get richer and the poor get poorer, it seems we are approach a new Middle Ages in America, as inequality increasingly spreads through the land. It is as if the superrich are like the new royalty and the top 1% are living in mansions like the old castles of kings in […]

The Program from Hell Aflame in Fraud, Waste and Abuse by John Stanton… “[US Army] Training and Doctrine Command and Tradoc Intelligence Support Activity should consider conducting an investigation, to determine the true extent of spillage incidents perpetrated by HTS employees and contractors, to preclude possible embarrassment in the wake of the Bradley Manning trial/decision.” […]

Wall Street, US Congress, Obama Cash-in by John Stanton “Despite being the richest country in the world, poverty remains an important social issue in the United States. All too often poverty in America is used as a political weapon by both political parties to galvanize their voting base. What is lost in the midst of […]