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Police officers have detained four suspected robbers who threw a grenade in their direction in the west of Moscow, a police spokeswoman said. Spokeswoman Natalya Tolstobrova said the incident occurred early Saturday when policemen decided to check the identification papers of four Moldovan nationals inside a Lada car. “When the police officers approached the car, […]

Hello! Today Russia celebrates Palm Sunday what we call here Willow Sunday (because we don’t have palms here in Russia but Willows start blossom right at The Willow Sunday). We call it in Russian Verbnoe Voskresenie. People widely celebrate this day. And you can find a lot of beautiful “Happy Willow Sunday (S Verbnym Voskreseniem!)” […]

Moscow to close roads near cemeteries for Easter: 10:56 16/04/2011 Traffic police in Moscow will block streets near the capital’s main cemeteries as many Muscovites mark Easter by visiting the graves of loved ones.>> Windows to Russia! PS: Links to Easter Articles… http://windowstorussia.com/recipe-from-russia-very-simple-kulich_24.html http://windowstorussia.com/easter-in-russia-is-coming-2011.html Link to all of our Easter Articles on Search >>>

Today April 17th, 2011 is a day of celebration across Russia. The Orthodox Church has its equivalent of Palm Sunday. Since Russia does not have climate conductive to growing palm trees, willow twigs are used instead palms. In the Russian Orthodox Church, Ukrainian Orthodox Church, Ukrainian Catholic Church, and Ruthenian Catholic Church, the custom developed […]

This side of the world is not having a good time with the Western attitude and it is showing in all the news all over this side of the world. I am seeing a underlining worry about the situation in Libya. It was well known that Libya had been in good graces with the West […]

Amateur shooter kills friend at Moscow firearms club: A university worker has fatally wounded a colleague at a shooting range in Moscow. The owner of the club may be charged with criminal negligence… Supreme Court rules earlier extension of Khodorkovsky arrest illegal: Russia’s Supreme Court has ruled that the latest extension of arrest for ex-Yukos […]

It looks like Medvedev showed a touch of bitterness over the abuse of the UN mandate on Libya. He interprets the mandate as he sees it and expects it to be fulfilled. But there is a problem with that… As much as Medvedev wants to believe that the West is paved in good intentions and […]

SANYA (Hainan province, China), April 14 (Itar-Tass) — Russia is strongly concerned over an abused mandate under the UN Security Council resolution on Libya, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev told reporters here on Thursday. Commenting on the current situation in Libya the president noted that “the UN Security Council resolution should be fulfilled in compliance with […]

I was sipping that wonderful cup of coffee this morning in Moscow, Russia and doing some thinking’s that involved businesses that fail… You see in America for 10 years I was a trouble shooter for ServiceMaster Inc. during the era that they had a huge Food Service business that they acquired by buying out American […]