Windows to Russia

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 […]

Earlier this year the USA inquired to Russia about turn-coating on Iran over the and all nuclear deals. Russia was watching and waiting to see about several actions that the USA would take and do on missile defense and other important issues… Well in the last few days a little rhetoric has come out from […]

This time of the year is strange. That was the thinking’s with my morning cup of coffee. You see, the Russians living in Moscow simply disappear. The children that overwhelmed the playgrounds have all vanished. Oh there is an occasional lost straggler, but for the most part the Muscovites are gone, or at least the […]

Here in Russia the farther North that you get the less likely the sun wants to go away for the night. Now we in Moscow get a night but I can go to the top of our buildings and you can see light in the distance of a sun that never wants to go away. […]

Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, the current President of the World Chess Federation (FIDE), who headed the southern Republic of Kalmykia for almost two decades before resigning in 2010, visited the Libyan capital and met with Gaddafi at his invitation. The two men played chess for two-and-a-half hours. Speaking on Tuesday, Ilyumzhinov said that the Libyan leader is […]

Download the podcast! Daniel Repko is from a small town in America and was raised a Lutheran. He took an early interest in Russia, and went on to major in Russian at university. He began in Moscow 13 years ago, as many do, teaching English. His talent for communication and teaching has stood him in […]

June 12 is the national day of the Russian Federation – the Day of Russia. It has been celebrated every year since 1994. The First Congress of People’s Deputies of the Russian Federation adopted the Declaration on Russia’s National Sovereignty on June 12, 1990. The declaration views sovereignty as a natural and indispensable condition of […]

Remember when Ukraine was stealing gas? Remember when Ukraine refused to deliver gas to Europe? Remember when Ukraine would not pay their gas bills? Remember when Ukraine… (You get my point!) Well Ukraine seems to have come to the realization that South Stream is a true reality and that it will cut Ukraine’s throat in […]