Windows to Russia

“Peyton Place” A saying in America for a situation that is like a soap opera! In fact the saying comes from a book written in 1956 and ensuing prime time soap that was aired from 1964 to 1969… “The term “Peyton Place” became a buzzword to describe the duality of middle class life, with its […]

Two muggers attacked Natalia Osipova the world famous Russian international ballet star, as she left the American Ballet Theater in NYC (New York City) early one morning this week. They hit her in the nose and stole her bag: I then proceeded to check all the sources in America on this happening… Yes it happened […]

This is interesting and includes blogs like mine in the ruling: Russia’s Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday that Internet media outlets which refuse to remove reader comments when requested to do so by the federal media watchdog will be prosecuted. No action will be taken if a comment that the watchdog considers to be an […]

Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov on Friday sharply criticized the two largest Russian-Bulgarian energy projects, according to local media. He said after a meeting with EU ambassadors that Bulgaria was pulling out of the Burgas-Alexandroupolis pipeline project and suspending construction of the Belene nuclear power plant. By way of explanation, he said the pipeline was […]

Yelena Baturina, the wife of Moscow Mayor Yury Luzhkov, is officially one of the three richest women in the world with an estimated wealth of $2.9 billion… Only 14 women in the world have amassed personal fortunes of $1 billion or more – just 2% of the 1,011 self-made billionaires on the Forbes list. She […]

Svet and I had a good weekend and stayed away from posting any articles. At least very many articles. 🙂 We went and got two tires for our Volga and we need to have them put on this week. We picked up Russian made tires and got a pretty good deal on them. We have […]

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev in February 2010 announced the establishment of a modern center for research and development, which the media quickly dubbed Russia’s Silicon Valley. It is officially located in the town called Skolkovo. Skolkovo already is home to a very prestigious business school and other highly advanced facilities. The facility is around 20 […]

No – you got the title correct. deliminator: “A string or pattern used to delimit text into fields, but which is itself eliminated from the resulting list of fields.” That is how I look at these new sanctions against Iran and with these sanctions are so many promises not to do this and not to […]

The second cup of coffee brought my attention to: One of the oldest and most respectable U.S. newspapers has published an article on the political situation in Georgia following the South Ossetian crisis. According to The Washington Post, “Georgians inside and outside the government have begun to question the wisdom of the costly confrontation, and […]