Windows to Russia

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin test-drove Russia’s new Yo-mobile hybrid car on the ten kilometer route from his residence to President Medvedev’s country house outside Moscow on Friday. Yo-mobile, a project by Russia’s Yo-Auto, a joint venture between truck maker Yarovit and billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov’s Onexim group, will start production of Yo-Mobile hybrid cars in […]

It was -10 below zero this morning and seemed to be a far cry from the Spring that is suppose to be in effect. So that cup of coffee was extra good this cold morning… My thoughts today are centered around our News Blog and other subsidiaries.  Russian News From Russia – It has in […]

It really was not as bad as what I expected from all the doomsayers of life. Final results will be out and done by December 31st, 2012… Windows to Russia!

Just what Sveta and I have waited for. Now Sveta can travel to Turkey visa free. It was just officially announced that Russians will be able to travel to Turkey visa-free as of the 16th of April, 2011… This is according to the Russian Foreign Ministry. It seems that a new Russian-Turkish agreement is due […]

Russia employs Arctic brigade to defend oil and gas reserves Russia is setting up a special motorized infantry brigade of troops ready to fight in the Arctic as tensions over the region’s allegedly vast oil and gas wealth reserves grow. The troops will be based in the far northern town of Pechenga on Russia’s Kola […]

Russia has raised social pensions in Russia by 10% as of today (April/01/2011).  They will now be reconfigured  once a year in Russia, rather than every two years, as it was in the past. The amendment to the pension law was approved by Russia’s parliament and signed into law by the Russian President on the […]

Paradise Lost?By Dmitry Babich Although the totalitarian Soviet education system barred questioning or criticism, it nonetheless produced some of the greatest scientists and performers in Russian history. Windows to Russia!

Everywhere I go in Russia. I see a Soviet past that is missed by more than just a few people.. That is what I was thinking this morning over coffee. That thought came from when Sveta and I the other night visited some friends. It was a typical visit to a Russian and that means […]

Gorby 80: Mikhail Gorbachev’s 80th birthday gala in London… (In London?) The star-studded charity concert at Royal Albert Hall for the last leader of the Soviet Union – Gorby! Given for his 80th birthday, where guests included Arnold Schwarzenegger, Lech Walesa, Kevin Spacey, Sharon Stone and many many more famous… Gorbachev, the so-called “architect of […]