Windows to Russia

Russia Is Finished The unstoppable descent of a once great power into social catastrophe and strategic irrelevance By Jeffrey Tayler During the Cold War years I perceived Russia through a Cold War prism—as a land of vast, frozen twilight realms of steppe and forest where a drama was being acted out that involved players of […]

Truth to be told, even thinking about going to war with Russia over any reason, portrays a mentality of those who feel everything is all very far away; in Never Never Land and have misunderstood the very fact that all USA wars in the last twenty five years were small “policing related actions” or clean-ups […]

The US has processed zero confirmation of Russian contribution in the distressed/separatism situation in Ukraine, it is simply a heap of hogwash against-Russian and is hostile to-Putin expressions… In this way it is unimaginable and immoral for Russia to “consent” with requests to “end its destabilization of eastern Ukraine” on the grounds that such an […]

America’s weakness is it’s total dependence on electronic weapons. Relatively small country’s can bring this to an end with very small investments, much easier than wasting money on nuclear weapons. Russia is making great improvements in their electronic weapons jammers, others should join the club . Hire a poor hacker, they would love a challenge… […]

Why is it, that in every barber shop, pub, greasy spoon, drive thru window, picnic, BBQ and dinner table I see, everyone knows that the U.S. government are terrorists, but the lame stream media, those superior entities with the accumulation of knowledge of all knowledge, don’t know a damn thing about the U.S. government? In […]

World War I demonstrated czarist corruption and inefficiency, and only patriotism held the poorly equipped army together for a time. Disorders broke out in Petrograd (renamed Leningrad and now St. Petersburg) in March 1917, and defection of the Petrograd garrison launched the revolution. Nicholas II was forced to abdicate on March 15, 1917, and he […]

Tradition says the Viking Rurik came to Russia in 862 and founded the first Russian dynasty in Novgorod. The various tribes were united by the spread of Christianity in the 10th and 11th centuries; Vladimir “the Saint” was converted in 988. During the 11th century, the grand dukes of Kiev held such centralizing power as […]

Eastern Europe and Northern Asia, bordering the Arctic Ocean, between Europe and the North Pacific Ocean. Largest country in the world in terms of area; Mount Elbrus is Europe’s tallest peak in Europe. Area: total: 17,075,200 sq km water: 79,400 sq km Climate: ranges from humid continental in much of European Russia through steppes in […]

Geography The Russian Federation is the largest of the 21 republics that make up the Commonwealth of Independent States. It occupies most of eastern Europe and north Asia, stretching from the Baltic Sea in the west to the Pacific Ocean in the east, and from the Arctic Ocean in the north to the Black Sea […]

Fast Facts about Russia Country name The official name for Russia is either Russian Federation or Russia. Both names are equal according to the Russian Constitution. In Russian script, they are spelled as Российская Федерация and Россия accordingly. Capital city The capital of Russia is Moscow, or Москва in Russian script. Moscow is the largest […]