Windows to Russia

A country of cyborg and avatars: As a rule, Russians don’t really like to plan ahead. An innocent question like “what do you plan to do this summer?” tends to provoke frank bewilderment. Most likely, the person asked will shrug his shoulders philosophically and say: “We’ll see what happens.” The last 20 years in Russia […]

If you follow Windows to Russia then you know that I have lots of articles about Viktor Bout. I think he is being held for information purposes. The US government knows that as slow as the judicial system is in America, that they have plenty of time to interrogate him. When he is finally released […]

One of the buzz words recently has been “reorientation,” but it is a misnomer. Russia cares for its clients and is most unlikely to go against the interests of its key customers – the European Union and European consumers. Russia exports mind-boggling amounts of energy to the EU – something like 5.5% to 6% of […]

Give you something from the Western press to chew on today… Moscow: By Fred Weir Russia emerges as Europe’s most God-believing nation: Two decades after the collapse of the USSR, history’s most atheistic state, the vast majority of Russians attest to a belief in God – more than in any other European country – according […]

Nevertheless, the study of the facts leads {assert that the “revolution” Libyan is neither democratic nor spontaneous. This is an armed uprising of the party east of the country in a spirit of revenge and dissent, which attempts to register in the dynamics of “spring” Arabic, which he does not report.  The Libyan movement can […]

I had to smile and chuckle at breakfast this morning. Russia is having a conniption fit. A fit over something that is so common place in the Western world that it has become ignored by Western society in general… MOSCOW, June 16 (Itar-Tass) – Moscow university students who tried to pass graduate tests for schoolchildren, […]

China needs the gas and Russia needs to sell it. Russia is looking at a huge gas contract (I mean huge!) with China and may sign a gas contract during China’s President Hu Jintao’s visit to Moscow. The issue of gas supplies to China is part of the talks between Dmitry Medvedev and Hu Jintao. […]

Looks like NATO is struggling. France says that they need to pull out the only aircraft carrier in the Libyan war. NATO members are running out of bombs. Qaddafi having a good time playing chess this last weekend with the Russian head of the World Chess Federation, Kirsan Ilyumzhinov. (Now that was a psychological blow […]

GENEVA, June 15 (Itar-Tass) —— Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has promised that Russia will not increase the 40-hour working week. “We shall not allow an increase in the 40-hour work week,” he told the 100th session of the International Labor Conference. He added that Russia “will not try to slash costs at the expense […]

This is interesting… Russia has introduced restrictions on the movement of heavy trucks on highways in summertime. At temperatures above 32 degrees centigrade (89.6 F), trucks are allowed to run on highways from 9 pm to 9 am. The restrictions were imposed in order to preserve highways in good condition and will be in force […]