Kirill, Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia, is delivering his traditional Easter address to Orthodox believers. I address you, dear brothers and sisters, with this Paschal greeting: Christ is risen! This greeting, which we have inherited from the days of holy apostles, proclaims divine truth and asserts a historical fact. Indeed, 2,000 years have passed, […]
Here is how to make a Kulich or also Kuhlich. Recipe is from this blog Windows to Russia… Recipe From Russia: A Very Simple Kulich! (Easter Pie or Cake) The photo above is a picture of the kulich that was home made by a babushka of some students of ours, from English lessons. From what […]
Russian children’s rights ombudsman Pavel Astakhov said on Thursday a lawsuit had been filed against him by an American woman who sent her adopted son back to Russia. Torry Hansen filed a lawsuit in Moscow’s Savelovsky Court, seeking retraction of a November 24, 2011 article in the Rossiiskaya Gazeta government daily. She also demands punitive […]
The recent outcry by the American Media complaining of mass riots over the Russian election has gotten me thinking. Do the youth in Russia protesting understand exactly how free they are compared with the American’s slandering them? Consider the facts. 1. America’s Free Press Six Corporations control the American press (Walt Disney, General Electric, New […]
It finally has happened and it is possible to say Spring is here in Moscow. The birds are singing, the days are long and the weather is warm. Well warm as +1 or +2 Celsius can be. But it is Spring and the snow has finally started to melt faster than it comes out of […]
Orthodox Christians will begin celebrating the first week of Passover. On Monday (April 9th, 2012), the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Kirill will hold a liturgy in the Donskoy Monastery of the capital… During the holiday period it is traditional that churches will keep their doors open as a sign that through his death, […]
A 17-year-old student from Texas is to become the first American to graduate from the world’s leading ballet school, the Bolshoi Ballet Academy. Joy Womack has lived by herself in Moscow, Russia, for three years, more than 6,000 miles away from her home in Austin, to attend the school. Now, after years of dancing for […]
It’s impossible! Six hours on the street. Hundreds of gorgeous pictures of deer, reindeer, chumrabotnits, people and animals. Then three hours at the computer. To select the most-most of the hundreds of pictures of deer, reindeer, chumrabotnits, people and animals. And then – a few more hours to put it all in ChUMoteku. How much […]
At one point during sentencing, which lasted for over an hour, the prosecutor said that Viktor Bout had agreed to sell weapons to kill Americans, to which Bout shouted out, “It’s a lie!” He told the judge he “never intended to kill anyone” and said, “God knows this truth.” Addressing the court for the first […]
China should be well aware that any of its measures to promote industrial upgrading, structural adjustment or increase incomes, if not suitable for its current national conditions, will possibly have unwanted economic results. The accelerated adoption of an impracticable industrial upgrading strategy is very likely to force young sectors to abandon industrial development and enter […]