Windows to Russia

Lets look at a video and touch on the subject of history: This history is about “The Winter War” on November 30, 1939, the Soviet Union invaded Finland. It was a war Russia would rather forget, while Finland wants to keep the memory alive. Finns are commemorating the 70th anniversary of the start of the […]

Hello, Reserves were formerly held only in gold, as official gold reserves. But under the Bretton Woods system, the United States pegged the dollar to gold, and allowed convertibility of dollars to gold. This effectively made dollars appear as good as gold. The U.S. later abandoned the gold standard, but the dollar has remained relatively […]

The Russian rouble  has a position on the Chinese market. From now on it will be traded equally with Australia`s and Singapore`s dollar, the Japanese yen and South Korea`s won. The Russian government has been working with China to get the rouble used as a trade currency. So now it has happened the yaun is […]

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Hello,I can say, with all knowledge of the subject that one day you will be taking drugs to keep your life going. I take 20+ pills a day, everyday, 7 days a week and 365 days a year. The effect of these prescription pills on my body is bad enough. I could not imagine being […]

My wife found this map of Ukraine and how it grew over the years. It seems that Ukraine was a tiny little country not that long ago. Ukraine should have thanks for various eras of time especially the Soviet era: 1922, 1939-40 and 1954! Seems like countries during the Soviet era had all kinds of […]

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Hello, This weekend we went to a Chinese Festival in Moscow. It was not very big, but it was relaxing and quiet. Svet bought some fortune telling coins that you keep in your money pocket so that you will be rich! Yippy 🙂 The pictures below are of the of the Chinese Festival….. The Chinese […]

For quite awhile now the Russian and Georgian press has been hinting at an issue that may come to a boil. Steam has been vented over the facts that Georgia may be training and permuting terrorist camps within the Georgian boundaries… Remember that even the Georgian press is writing about this also… The latest terrorist […]