“The vigil, dedicated to the 70th anniversary of the outbreak of the (1941-1945) Great Patriotic War…

MOSCOW, June 22 (Itar-Tass) — People in Moscow, St Petersburg, the capitals of ex-Soviet republics and other cities are to hold a vigil of memory on Wednesday. Yekaterina Abramova, director of the Interstate TV and Radio Network MIR (peace), has told Itar-Tass, “The vigil, dedicated to the 70th anniversary of the outbreak of the (1941-1945) […]

Coffee and Russian Men Perception…

This morning over that wonderful cup of coffee that always makes a great start to any day. I was doing some thinking’s about this weekend that just passed… We got into a heated argument with another gentleman and several ladies over an issue with the flats we live in. It was over installing a door […]

Medvedev Talks to the Financial Times…

“Any leader, especially one who occupies the president’s office has to be willing to run in elections. However, it is another question whether he would make that decision for himself,” stated Dmitry Medvedev in his interview to the Financial Times. ­Full transcript of President Dmitry Medvedev’s interview to Financial Times ­Russian Federation President Dmitry Medvedev’s […]

Can a country (Russia) of people who can’t plan a meeting a week in advance really be working on technology to let people live forever?

A country of cyborg and avatars: As a rule, Russians don’t really like to plan ahead. An innocent question like “what do you plan to do this summer?” tends to provoke frank bewilderment. Most likely, the person asked will shrug his shoulders philosophically and say: “We’ll see what happens.” The last 20 years in Russia […]

Russia and God…

Give you something from the Western press to chew on today… Moscow: By Fred Weir Russia emerges as Europe’s most God-believing nation: Two decades after the collapse of the USSR, history’s most atheistic state, the vast majority of Russians attest to a belief in God – more than in any other European country – according […]