Windows to Russia

To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries: Aldous Huxley… I have mentioned many things over the years and many things that I have mentioned are about the strange ways that Russians do things. I thought that today I would talk about these things, that even after 7 full years, I […]

EU, Cyprus Act ‘Like Bull in China Shop’ – Russian PM… Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev on Wednesday slammed the European Union and Cyprus for their handling of the island nation’s debt woes. Medvedev told a group of European media outlets in an interview that the crisis had been entirely mishandled, undermining confidence in financial […]

Sveta and I need to get a way from all the snow. Especially Sveta, she is going snow crazy. I understand why and if you saw out our windows today you would see snow falling and falling. That is the thinking’s today and that is what is going with a cup of delicious coffee as […]

Reported out of Baghdad: A wave of bombings tore through the Baghdad area Tuesday, killing 57 people on the eve of the 10th anniversary of the U.S.-led invasion and showing how unstable Iraq remains more than a year after the withdrawal of American troops… This is so sad and is really what is wrong with […]

They burned the straw man, asked for forgiveness and ate enough pancakes to choke a horse! Maslenitsa is over for another year and everyone is hoping that Spring will soon come, as the fields will turn green with a bountiful harvest. It goes like this every year… Monday is called “a meeting”. With the first […]

Years ago I decided that a Bank was a crooked institute! I was scoffed at and ridiculed at, that I refused to use a bank account. In fact I refused to use any service of a bank, as it was to my belief that Banks are there only for taking your money and if something […]

“The wire reports on the Cyprus situation are working overtime to try to make the case that 80% of the deposits belong to the people of Cyprus, and only 20% of the deposits belong to the Russians. That’s absolutely false. After 1985, when the Robber Barron’s of Russia took over the general economics of Russia, […]

Moscow gathered another 24 centimeters of snowfall late on Friday and early on Saturday, bringing the total so far this winter to (and it is still around and packed solid): 279+ centimeters. That is over 9 feet to metric illiterates and more is coming down right now, as I write this article excerpt. I see […]

A ex-army commando who kidnapped several hostages in southern Russia demanding money, a getaway car and a pizza! He wanted to impress his ex-girlfriend, as he had her as one of the hostages… The 17-year-old girl was among the three hostages being held at gunpoint by Alexander Kuptsov for several hours in a inner city […]

1. Russian Federation   2. Ukraine  3. China  4. Sweden  5. Germany  6. India  7. Lithuania  8. France   9. Poland  10. Turkey… Now that is cool butter beans and I am working on growing my world coverage everyday! I learned the hard way to rely upon having a site that caters to only the […]