Windows to Russia

It seems that once a long time ago they drained the peat fields around Moscow. It seems that as early as 1918 Soviet engineers drained swamps to supply peat for electrical power stations. But in the late 1950s they stopped using peat for fuel, after natural gas was discovered in Siberia. Well, these drained peat […]

Several years ago I wrote a small article about Natural Gas (or as it is known in Russia, Gaz) would start taking the lead against oil. I said that oil is loosing its crown. The supply of gas is vast in comparison to oil… I remember well that it was not received well by what […]

Abkhazia recognized by one more state: One more state – the island state Vanuatu in Oceania – has recognized the independence of Abkhazia.The Voice of Russia has a copy of a diplomatic agreement signed on the 23d of May… Read More >>> Source: Voice of Russia. Windows to Russia! Update: Vanuatu’s FM has confirmed the […]

Today Russians mark International Russian Language Day, as well as the 212th birth anniversary of the Great Russian poet Alexander Pushkin… Alexander Pushkin is considered by many all over the world to be the greatest Russian poet and the founder of modern Russian literature… I do know that as Sveta and I travel Russia and […]

Coffee this cool morning in Moscow was excellent. Nothing better when the temperature is around 10 degrees Centigrade (50 F.)… I was doing some thinking’s about Medvedev, the Russian president. I realized that he has become basically (and by his own actions) a lame duck as president. He has lost much of the respect that […]

From what I see there use to be an option on Russian election ballots that allowed Russians to vote against all parties involved in said elections. They could express that all options to vote for were so bad that they did not want to vote for anyone… A Just Russia party leader Sergei Mironov, the […]

Looks like Russia is on a roll: What with a June 15th 2011 deadline. Russia will put a ban on the import of all beef from Brazil for “sanitation worries.” (?) Russia has also banned the import of potatoes from Egypt because of “sanitation worries.” (?) Then of course we have all heard that because […]

Geidar Jemal, chairman of the Islamic Council of Russia: First, I think that the NATO declaration about its readiness to prolong the bombings of Libya for some 90 days is a sign of weakness, because previously I remember they were telling us about their readiness to bomb as long as necessary. Now limiting the bombings […]

We took a pleasant journey this weekend to our village home. Thought you might be interested in what we pay for gasoline and propane here in Russia… Filled up the tank with petrol (gasoline) this week – 21 rubles a liter… Filled up the LPG (propane) tank this week – 14 rubles a liter… 3.78541178 […]

I was sipping that great cup of coffee this morning and doing some thinking’s on what I have watched developed during the last year between Russia and China. It has been a low key development and the Russian news has been giving tidbits of information about the energy plans being geared toward China by Russia. […]