Windows to Russia

Russia had rallies and they went off very peaceful today. Here is the live posting by RT as things happened. Sorry everyone it was kinda boring and very very cold… (-21 C) 15:45 MSK: RT ends its live feedback on Saturday’s protests in Russia. Have a nice day! 15:37 MSK: Around 20 people who attended […]

In all the asthmatic Western media exclamations being directed at Russia at this moment in history over Putin and the Russian presidency coming up in March. The one affair, a lot of Western journalists have excused from their articles and fail to acknowledge 99% of the time, is that the strongest and best-organized political action […]

Sveta and I are getting ready as soon as the weather breaks to take a trip to the village. I am going to live in the village this year for about two to three months. Boza will be with me and Sveta will be able to spend about a month there… It is time to […]

On one of our trips, (the one that I lost all the pictures) we had the opportunity to go to Russia’s republic of Kalmykia which is the only region in Europe where Buddhism is the dominant religion. Temples were destroyed there during the Soviet era and Buddhism went into decline. But in a new age […]

This story by Leonid Savin, political scientist, Strategic Culture Foundation expert, was published in International Affairs magazine. The EU oil embargo recently slapped on Iran and the threats voiced by the US and other Western countries to come up with further sanctions against the country led watchers to conclude that an armed conflict between Iran […]

I was drinking my morning cup of coffee and watching a video that Svet put on the Russian Video Blog! A fact that I had no idea about, was that the Soviet Union made their own Champagne! I always thought that only the French had Champagne *(Champagne is a sparkling wine produced by inducing the […]

I was drinking my morning cup of coffee and reading about a subject that brought back memories of an era, I hope stays gone. Thirty years ago the USSR informed the world it had successfully tested one of the deadliest weapons ever invented – a neutron bomb. The day has gone down in arms race […]

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said: “The people who are obsessed with removing regimes in the region (Middle East), they should be really thinking about the broader picture. And I’m afraid that if this vigor to change regimes persists, we are going to witness a very bad situation much, much, much broader than just Syria, […]

I am drinking a good cup of hot chicory and have the extra heater on. I got a little bit cold.: It was about -27 below Celsius as I walked the dog and my eyes started to tear up from the cold. That is when I realized that my left eye had frozen shut. Not […]

Under the title “Why the United States does not want to elect Putin as the Russian president”  Komsomolskaya Pravda daily quoted some excerpts from a survey of a famous US political scientist and economist William Engdahl. Engdahl’s survey was published in Germany. The newspaper noted that Engdahl is convinced the US is seeking to discredit […]