Windows to Russia

Lets watch a video from the West! Easy huh? Just click the play button and watch right? As long as your internet works, you are good to go, Right? Not very often is what I deal with… I tried 25 videos on Real Clear Politics just today. I wanted to see what is up! The […]

I had to say I figured that Moscow, Russia would never give away WiFi! WiFi hotspots is something that is not easy to find cheaply in Moscow. Example: In Kiev, Ukraine I find free WiFi easy to get and have even set in a city park and worked on my data/communications before… Why even the […]

Working from Within or Without? Clinton’s visit to Laos should focus on cleaning up the 80 million unexploded bombs the US left behind from the Vietnam War. Instead, it’s all about realpolitik. — Alternet, July 10, 2012 A symbolic moment periodically illuminates both the true nature of U.S. foreign policy and how even once-idealistic youth become […]

Well it looks like this weekend we are going to the village and have a week of fun in the sun. I can’t wait and need a break from all the work that I have been doing and I know that Sveta needs a break badly. She burns the candle at both ends so to […]

MOSCOW, July 10 (RIA Novosti) – Russian Lower House of Parliament, the State Duma, ratified on Tuesday adoption deals with the United States and France, stipulating that a Russian child can only be adopted by a foreign family if no Russian parents can be found at home. The need for such an agreement became particularly […]

Russia has sent a naval flotilla of warships led by an anti-submarine destroyer to its naval base at the Syrian port of Tartus, the Interfax news agency reported on Tuesday. The Admiral Chabanenko and three landing craft have left their home port of Severomorsk in the Arctic Circle on their way to the Mediterranean where […]

Communists are holding a protest in front of the State Duma while the lower house considers the ratification of the protocol on Russia’s accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO). About 50 activists of the Communist Party (KPRF) gathered in downtown Moscow waving banners reading “WTO accession – a road to abyss!” and “WTO is […]

MPs of the Kemerovo Region in South Siberia have passed a bill/law according to which Americans have no right to adopt children anymore on the territory of the region. Exceptions from America are allowed only for very close relatives who have documents proving kinship to people living in the Kemerovo Region in South Siberia… The […]

Russia is Very Quiet this Sunday and Monday is a day of National Mourning… Flags will fly at half mast, TV will not show light entertainment programs, and Orthodox services throughout the country will commemorate the several hundred victims of the floods in the Krasnodar region… The last national day of mourning happened almost exactly […]