Windows to Russia

UPDATE: Hosni Mubarak, the Egyptian president, has resigned from his post, handing over power to the armed forces and ending a 30-year grip on the largest Arab nation.In a stunning reversal of fortunes, Omar Suleiman, the new vice-president, announced in a televised address on Friday evening that the president was “waiving” his office, and had handed over […]

We lost our cars in the snow fall we just had the last few days. I was walking the dog tonight and realized that it had finally stopped snowing. Then I realized that all the cars everywhere were buried in tons of snow. You can see several rows of cars here and one row is […]

Russia has a way of bringing back many memories from the old days in America. I have said many times and will most likely say a whole bunch more times, “Russia is just like America was 40 to 50 years ago…” This is true in almost all aspects of life in Russia. Russia is strange […]

I am writing this from the cell phone. It is snowing like crazy here in Moscow. The last two days have been wonderful and taking the dog for a walk or going to the store is like a winter wonder land every step. I have been getting better at this mobile blogging and even though […]

Russian President Medvedev has announced the ending of daylight saving time starting in the autumn of 2011. Medvedev has argued that switching clocks twice a year is harmful for people’s health and triggers stress… “Every fall and every spring we are swearing at this system,” Medvedev said. “Our biorhythms are damaged. We are all angry. […]

I smiled to myself yesterday when I heard the whining and crying over the refusal by the border patrol of Russia to allow one of the trash talking Gunge of the Western press to cross back into Russia. One of the many, that write many false and fake allegations about Russia. Then even when they […]

United States, Russian Federation, Germany, France, South Korea, Great Britain, Netherlands, Canada, Slovenia, European country, Romania, Spain, Australia, Czech Republic, India, Belgium, Ukraine, Hungary, Poland and Japan… This is the top twenty countries that visit Windows to Russia since the first of the year… Germany and France have knocked South Korea out of the number […]

As promised an update on getting a visa for Russia from Ukraine. As the status is right now for me in Russia, I get a new visa to Russia every 3 months. The total process changes like the wind but the basics are stable. But many times, my last update has become obsolete by the […]

Unbelievable: This is an interview with an American (Paul Eng) that came to Russia and has now lived here 5 years. I can associate with 90% of what he says, “to a tee”…