Windows to Russia

Looks like Russia is up to her normal stuff… Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has paid a pleasant state visit to Uzbekistan. He came back to Moscow with some delicious Uzbek flat-bread, some natural gas and a honorary PhD from the University of World Economy and Diplomacy in Tashkent. While Medvedev was trotting around the country […]

Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia. Metropolitan Filaret of Minsk and Slutsk has withdrawn from the election, leaving just two candidates. (Link) Could a car thief, who stole a $US 45,000 offroader in Moscow last night, have ever imagined that it belongs to, of all things, the Orthodox Church? (Link) Financial crises, the recent gas […]

Hello,Seems that this could be the largest dollar value underwater salvage job ever found. There also seems to be a blend of several countries wealth aboard this vessel. It is said that the primary cargo was mostly Soviet and the rest from Britain. This means that Russia could have a huge say in the split […]

21:30 D. Medvedev congratulated B. Obama on officially taking on the duties of head of state, and wished him success in this high office. During the telephone conversation both parties expressed their intention to focus their efforts on renewing the potential of the Russian-American relations, and on resolving issues in a constructive way, including those […]

I was drinking my morning cup of coffee and thinking about what I went through on Friday to acquire American dollars in Ukraine. I had to come up with only American dollars to satisfy officials. Four months ago I could have withdrawn the money from an ATM. Not now! My card I carry is in […]

It has been a few days since I last posted but sometimes life gets in the way of the fun stuff. 🙂 So I was just drinking my cup of coffee and thinking about the trip I just made. I got back from Ukraine on Sunday Morning and it is sure nice to be back […]

It is really neat today to see Kiev wake up from the coma that no gas brought on. Today for the first time in 5 days the smoke stacks of factories are puffing vapor into the air. The people are running around all over the place instead of huddled by fires and electric heaters. Now […]

Hello, murdered by a Russian army colonel, Yury Budanov, has been killed. Stanislav Markelov was shot dead in the center of Moscow in broad daylight on Monday. According to witnesses, a man wearing a ski-mask approached Markelov and Anastasia Baburova, a 24-year-old free-lance journalist for ‘Novaya Gazeta’ newspaper, in the street and took out a […]

UKRAINE ALLOWED THE GAS TO FLOW AGAIN! Hello,

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