Windows to Russia

Easter here in the East is at a different time and is much different in the way it is taught and presented to people. I grew up think that while Easter was about “the resurrection of Jesus,” somehow the Easter Bunny was the king of Easter in the world that I knew in the west… […]

A 20-year-old amateur painter has won Russia’s national beauty pageant and will now represent the country in international competitions. Alina Sanko was just crowned Russia’s most beautiful woman. Sanko was adorned with a gemstone-encrusted white-gold tiara in Moscow after impressing the jury of the Miss Russia 2019 pageant. She and 49 other contestants from all […]

I hear and see a whole lot of blame going on… What generation produced the millennial’s? What generation produced the generation that produced the millennial’s? What generation produced the generation and the generation and the generation? On and on and on… All generations failed and the result is now irrationality on steroids… No one is […]

Pray it is forever and lets – Party… WtR Source: Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp were down for two hours – The Verge

I feel so old and out of date… I just make my own coffee and try to never buy any coffee anywhere, due to cost. But our world is telling me that I am not able to make a decent cup of coffee and need to buy it made by someone a robot… China’s younger […]

The stuffed animal picture was taken for two reasons….interesting and a chickadee….sitting on the head of the brown stuffed animal… He was singing to me and he really liked his perch… The blue stairs are an example of getting away with something that is illegal. This is common here in Moscow and that is fine […]

Western liberal model is losing attractiveness MOSCOW, April 12. /TASS/. Multipolarity is about to replace the Western liberal model of development, which is losing its attractiveness, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said at his annual meeting with students and professors at the Foreign Ministry’s Diplomatic Academy.” The Western liberal model of development, which particularly stipulates […]

With Easter coming to Russia (April 28th, 2019)… Everyone is getting ready to bake a and or many Kulich. The Kulich preparation starts several days before Easter. Kulich can contain candied fruit, almonds, and raisins, sometimes flavored with rum and saffron, and prepared like a bread. It is most always baked in a special kind […]

Dates for Easter Sunday 2018–2022 In Gregorian dates Year Western Eastern 2018 April 1 April 8 2019 April 21 April 28 2020 April 12 April 19 2021 April 4 May 2 2022 April 17 April 24 This table will give you when Easter is all the way up to 2022. I have been asked many […]

It is extremely symptomatic that the nation (Turkey) which had fought dozen or so wars with Russia since the late 1700’s and has generally been considered main regional rival to the Russians (except briefly, during the Stalin-Ataturk rapprochement in the mid-to-late 1920s), is now consistently a more friendly and reliable ally of Russia than it […]