Windows to Russia

Sveta found the OutdoorLife article for me and I read it this morning while sipping my coffee. Outdoor life was my last and best subscription that I ever had on a magazine (It ended two months before I came to Russia!). I love the articles and since I was an avid hunter and fisherman. The […]

When Sveta and I go on vacation we like to take lots of pictures of what we see. This little video to the right is a group of clowns that Sveta and I found performing on the streets of Odessa. It was Victory day in Russia and Ukraine or also called May Holidays. It is […]

Much Ado About Nothing

Putin reveals outdoor passions in US interview: Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin spoke of his passion for fishing and extolled the virtues of the outdoor life in an unusual interview with a US hunting and fishing magazine published on Wednesday. “I value more and more what sport has given me, the habit of a healthy […]

Today as promised we will take a picture tour into the Privoz Market. It was said to have began in 1827. It is a buyers paradise and anything (I mean anything) can be found there somewhere… It seems that the main market is devoted to foods and then as the market grew it encompassed a […]

While sipping that morning cup of coffee. I was doing some thinking’s on the Russian presidency. The media either from the West or East, has “their panties all in a twist” trying to figure out what is going on with Medvedev and Putin… The articles either extenuates or exasperates the situation according to what ever […]

Kremlin Tells Kids Opposition Is Important I found this link above (Click the далее button!) interesting, but it is in Russian. So some English information to get you started below… Entrance page has a little statement on it. It goes something like this… “Do you like when you and I do not agree? Argue, argue, […]

Russia will not back a possible UN Security Council resolution on Syria, President Dmitry Medvedev told a Skolkovo press conference outside Moscow on Wednesday… “I will never support such a resolution, and even my closest friends will not be able to prod me to do so”, Medvedev said… Political unrest shows no signs of abating […]

I took 500+ pictures on this trip. It is nice having a really good camera phone that takes pictures as well as many cameras do. Sveta forgot her camera because she was in such a hurry to get to Ukraine and had so many loose ends to tie up before leaving. So we were saved […]