Windows to Russia

We all remember Grigori Perelman. Grigori Perelman is a mathematician from Russia. He proved the Poincaré Conjecture and has just been awarded the prestigious Millenium Prize and $1 million by the Clay Mathematics Institute… but Grigory Perelman refused to accept it… There was not too much information about Grigori Perelman in Internet. But today all […]

Fighting inflation is more important for the Russian economy than keeping the ruble from strengthening, Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin said on Monday. Inflation has been steadily rising in Russia since wildfires and the worst drought in decades triggered short grain supplies last summer. Despite a 2010 average of 8.8 percent, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said […]

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin called on Monday for the state to reduce its “unnecessary presence” in the economy. “It is necessary to reduce the unnecessary presence of the state in the economy and the excessive scale of government property, to expand the space for private initiative,” Putin said during a joint meeting of the […]

Well for the next few days. Windows to Russia will not be as active as normal. It is that time for a visa run and I will be leaving April 26th, 2011 on a train to Kiev, Ukraine… There will still be a few posts as I have a new software that will allow some […]

There have been some discussions about ground operations several weeks ago, when some observers were telling me that there are already advisers in Libya, acting on the side of the rebels, does that imply that the ground operation has already started?

Hello! Today we celebrate The Easter here in Russia. With Russian traditional Easter Bread – Kulich with dying Easter Eggs and with Happy Easter to all our neighbors here. Have a very happy Easter! Христос Воскресе!

A delegation of Russian religious, government and public figures will attend the “coming down” of Holy Fire ceremony in Jerusalem on Saturday and bring the flame to Moscow on Easter’s Eve. The Holy Fire that is lit every year at the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem on the day preceding Orthodox Easter is […]

Orthodox Christians are observing Good Friday today in commemoration of the crucifixion of Jesus Christ. The head of the Russian Orthodox Church Patriarch Kirill is holding a divine service at the Cathedral of Christ Our Savior in Moscow. Fasting on Good Friday is particularly strict among Russian Orthodox believers… Windows to Russia!

I have been watching a huge number of air conditioners going up all around Moscow. Last year the heat wave (By Russian standards) we had, literally sent most Russians into a heatstroke induced coma. It was so bad that even the government changed the rules about what you have to do to get an air […]

While drinking that delicious morning cup of coffee. I was doing some backtracking on several issues that have been forefront in the news yesterday. So lets see what was happening in Russia. “Russian Interior Ministry and Moscow police personnel are checking information that unidentified persons abducted in Moscow the son of well-known entrepreneur Yevgeny Kaspersky,” […]