Windows to Russia

Between 1956 and 1970 Gorky Automobile Factory or GAZ, located in the Soviet Union, produced a 3 part series of vehicles all variants of the name Volga GAZ-21. Russia: Volga Automobile, Part 1 (History) Love it… WtR

UN officials are once again expressing hope that fighting which has raged in the Libyan capital of Tripoli over the past two weeks is over, with the announcement of a new ceasefire between the UN-backed “unity” government and a militia. The two sides have been fighting through several ceasefires in that time, and has centered […]

Amazon stock briefly hit a $1 trillion market cap Tuesday before falling off and leaving Apple as the only publicly traded U.S. company above the benchmark. Source: Amazon falls off $1 trillion in market value Soon we will all be Zimbabweans… Welcome to the real world… WtR

Still struggling from the flue and other issues in the last month, but this morning I was able to walk again and it felt good….it also is getting cooler. Fall is here the trees are starting to change and I still never found summer. I called, I looked, I even turned over rocks and logs. […]

“The weather whispers…” by Svetlana Prostova “The weather whispers to borrow but jump.” Saying in Russian aeroclubs. Hi, That was a sunny day… I was one in the group of thirty, people who was ready to make there first parachute jump. I knew I was crazy but I knew I would make it. I was […]

Could someone please remind Pompeo and Bolton that al-Qaeda are the bad guys? After six years of a foreign-backed regime-change operation in Syria, where hundreds of thousands have been killed and the country nearly fell into the hands of ISIS and al-Qaeda, the Syrian government is on the verge of victory. Assad is hardly a […]

That world is Russia… August is vacation month and I mean vacation month. Yes, Russians have lots of holidays and lots of other vacation times, but August is almost like a mandatory, take a vacation month and many take the whole month. In Russia people get a full month or more of vacation off of […]

Svetochka loves her Sammy the Volga and no other car matters! And that is just right….but… The largest Russian automobile exhibition, the Moscow International Automobile Salon – MIAS 2018, started on August 29 in the capital’s exhibition complex Crocus Expo. The leaders of the mass segment are returning to the exhibition, promising premieres and novelties, […]

MOSCOW, August 29. /TASS/. Russian President Vladimir Putin said in his televised address on Wednesday the retirement age for women should be 60 rather than 63.”The retirement age for women should not increase more than for men. That’s why I believe it is necessary to reduce the increase in the retirement age for women proposed […]

We got home safe and sound. Traffic in Moscow really, really, really and did I say Really? Sucks. But we got home. You have to understand, everyone is coming back from the villages and dachas….school time! Russians: They are back from the Dachas Last night the playground at our flats was packed to the gills […]