ANN ARBOR, Michigan/When my parents were visiting me in Moscow last summer, immediately following the worst of the heat wave and smog, my father especially wanted to see what a rural Russian town looks like. There are a number of ways to do this, of course, but I decided to take him on the suburban […]

MOSCOW, June 9 (Itar-Tass) Russia’s gold and foreign exchange reserves climbed by 4.5 billion US dollars from 518.3 billion dollars to 522.8 billion (or by 0.87 per cent) on May 27-June 3, the business news agency PRIME reported on Thursday with reference to the foreign and public relations department of the Central Bank of Russia […]

In Russia you can find babushkas selling marinated cabbage almost anywhere. In fact at almost any metro station in Moscow they peddle there concoction of delicious marinated cabbage daily. Now everyone has their own way of making it, but this is my recipe that I use to make for salads in banquets in America… So […]

Strange and stupid world we live in. I was enjoying that morning cup of coffee and was reading about how wonderful of a world that we live in. It looks like the West is gung-ho trying to get World War Three in motion. While Russia and China are trying to get the opposite to happen… […]

By Fred Weir : Moscow’s previously troubled relations with NATO have improved greatly over the past two years, but the sleeping elephant in the room – the widening gap between Russian and Western visions for a missile defense shield to defend civilization from rogue attacks – may be about to wake up and turn nasty. […]

I realized today how much like my dad I look. It is almost scary to see this picture. I really thought that it was my dad. You see my dad died at a younger age than I am now, but not by much. I caught Sveta as she took this picture and you see I […]