Windows to Russia

The lawmakers in Kyrgyzstan approved February 17, 2011 to apply Putin’s name to a 4,446-meter (14,672-feet) mountain peak in the Tian Shan mountains south of the capital, Bishkek… A whole mountain peak named after Putin! Does Putin get to play on the mountain? Would Putin want to play on the mountain? It looks like a […]

Dmitry Medvedev met with Pope Benedict XVI and Vatican Secretary of State Tarcisio Bertone. This was the first official visit of a Russian leader to the Vatican since establishment of full-format diplomatic relations. Following his brief working visit to the Vatican on December 3, 2009, Dmitry Medvedev signed an executive order on establishing diplomatic relations […]

As I sip my coffee and enjoy the aroma and flavor. I have been thinking about the fact that Peter Schiff has a column now on Russia Today… I find that RT has an unbelievable wealth of information (good or bad) for those not “afraid” to look at and accept something different than the sheeple […]

When the old mayor was fired by President Medvedev and the new mayor installed was Putin’s right hand man in the Russian government. I said then that the new mayor, Sergey Sobyanin is an up coming future presidential prospective candidate… Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has suggested that Mayor Sergey Sobyanin lead the ruling United Russia’s […]

I am drinking my morning cup of coffee and thinking about the flu. Any flu: Influenza, commonly referred to as the flu, is an infectious disease caused by RNA viruses of the family Orthomyxoviridae (the influenza viruses), that affects birds and mammals. The most common symptoms of the disease are chills, fever, sore throat, muscle […]

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 […]