Windows to Russia

Sipping that cup of coffee this morning is always extra special in the village. You can hear the birds singing and one that stands out is the cuckoo bird. Sounds just like a cuckoo clock. We have lots of cuckoo birds around the village… It is going to be a scorcher today. It is already […]

It seems that we finally found what works very good in the village for Internet. It is running at broadband speeds and we can even go faster if we so desire. All through a little usb modem that looks like a flash drive. It is amazing to sit in a place with no running water […]

I would not want to be in the oil industry right now in Russia. Putin has been expressing dissatisfaction in the way the oil industry is responding to the government calls to get their (oil industry) act together… Putin noted that while oil extraction increased by as much as 28.7 percent in the past year, […]

Sveta and I are getting everything together and we are going to take a trip to our village (Kommuna as it is called now or Sunrise to Freedom as known in the old days) and see what is going on. The weather has been wonderful and Sveta decided to take a week vacation and the […]

The coffee was sad this morning as we here in Russia realized the extent of deaths in a sinking of a pleasure cruise boat on the Volga river in Tatarstan… Rescuers say there are more than 100 bodies, including 30 children, inside the “Bulgaria” cruiser boat which sank in the Volga River near the Russian […]

Paris is carrying out talks with Muammar Gaddafi. The son of the Libyan leader Saif al-Islam said in his interview for the Algerian newspaper El Khabar that the authorities of his country are negotiating with the French government and not with the regime’s opponents. Paris indirectly confirms its contacts with Gaddafi. The French Defence Minister […]

Eighty saved, over 100 missing as cruise ship sinks in Central Russia 08:02 11/07/2011 Eighty out of 185 people on board of the Bulgaria cruise ship that sank in Russia’s Volga River on Sunday afternoon were rescued, while 100 are still missing and five were found dead, a spokesperson for the Russian Emergencies Ministry said […]

Russia’s Putin wins Germany’s Quadriga award 11:10 10/07/2011 Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has won Germany’s prestigious Quadriga award for his key role in the development of Russia, German newspaper Suddeutsche Zeitung reported on Sunday.>>

The Olympic Flame is going to leave Earth as part of the traditional relay before the 2014 Winter Games in the Russian city of Sochi. ­“Russia was the first country 50 years ago to send a man into outer space,” Alexander Zhukov, president of the Russian Olympic Committee, told the RIA-Novosti news agency. “Now we […]

One of my biggest grips is about how the Western media never reports the news correctly. The news is always slanted to play their agendas and never written to tell the truth… Example: Russia’s Ministry of Justice has refused to register a new opposition movement – the People’s Freedom Party – for serious procedural violations […]