The draft of the Russian Education Reform that was posted online for debate by the people, has sparked total outrage in the internet community. Now after people have had time to absorb the information the rumbling has started… This is the site: (Russian and English) http://mon.gov.ru/ http://eng.mon.gov.ru/ If I remember correctly this Education Reform is […]
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MINISTRY OF EDUCATION AND SCIENCE OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION Moscow, Tverskaya, 11 phone +7 (495) 629-53-27 press@mon.gov.ru On December, 1-3, 2010 Russian-American negotiations on cooperation in the field of international adoption will take place On December, 1-3st, 2010 in Washington there will pass the next meeting of the Russian and American experts devoted to preparation of […]
Medvedev unveils monument to Yeltsin: Boris Yeltsin is a strange sometimes volital topic in Russia to discuss. If you mention his name you have about a 50 / 50 split as to what reaction you will get. I have really seen no middle of the road yet… Russians either like him or they don’t. Now […]
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Spam is Stupid… For Months now I have done a lot of thinking over many cups of coffee about comments. I have never achieved a balance on Windows to Russia. It is either comment crazy or no comments at all. So as I drink my coffee this morning and realize that I dealt with thousands […]
Russia posts “gold record” Russia as I have expressed several times in the past few years, is steadily buying gold. This good article from “Voice of Russia” explains a little about what is going on…
I was sitting here thinking about the trip I just made over a good cup of coffee. It is really amazing how bad the coffee can be when you have to buy it from a machine. I tried several cups of train station coffee this trip and found that while it was chocked full of […]
It was a dreary day and snowing like crazy. I decided while waiting for my evening train back to Moscow, to take a walk. I snapped a few pictures and they came out OK. Not great, but it gives you an idea of the Kiev train station… While Moscow has multiples of train stations including […]