Windows to Russia

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday he did not support the idea of increasing the working week recently suggested by a local oligarch. “I have always been and will always be against increasing the working week, and using other absolutely groundless methods of generating profit, when working in an ordinary mode or in […]

I just filled up the Volga and took note of what we are paying per liter. I wanted to figure out at home what that per liter price equates in per gallon amount. Sveta and I just paid 20 rubles per liter and we could have gotten it cheaper by one ruble a few kilometers […]

Putin demands Russia join top five world economies in next decade: Russia must become one of the world’s top five economies in the next 10 years to avoid interference in its affairs, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday… Russia to double ballistic missiles production from 2013 – Putin: Russia will double the production of […]

In Russia the term bifocal is known, but the availability is lacking of such glasses. Sveta just picked up my new glasses and that is what I am contemplating today over that wonderful cup of coffee… When you get older, you one day realize that father time has been sneaking up on you. So now […]

The lower house of the Russian parliament on Tuesday approved a bill increasing fines for bribes by up to 100 times the amount of the bribe given or accepted. The offer or promise of mediation in bribe-taking, including the physical handing over of the bribe, carries a fine of 25,000 to 500 million rubles ($880 […]

A troy ounce of gold has for the first time exceeded $1500 dollars at the Hong Kong Exchange. Investors are turning to gold and silver as an alternative currency amid fears of an increase in the US state debt and the weakening of the dollar. Here in Russia we watch the gold make a slow […]

If it is from Siberia it has to be true – right? I could care less if this is real or not but when I find things about UFOs I just have to post it… About a month ago this story was floated in the airwaves on a major UFO event that occurred in the […]

Boza and I just finished a walk. We found our first garden area with bulbs coming up. I knew that flowers had to be at least starting to grow but it has been such a mud bath that we have not been able to get anywhere but the sidewalks. Today Boza and I could walk […]

Moscow city authorities are looking for investors to build a Disneyland-like park in the Russian capital, a city government official said on Monday. “We are constantly in talks with companies that would be interested in such an ambitious project,” Sergei Cheremin, head of the city government’s foreign trade department, said. Negotiations are ongoing with a […]