Windows to Russia

Hello, Today we finish reading a story “Laddy” by Nikolai Nosov, what we started to read look Stories from Soviet Childhood: Laddy (1). Laddy (Part 2) I noticed that the teacher was staring at him. Her forehead was puckered as if she were trying to remember something. Suddenly she stopped him and said: “Just a […]

Blueberry jam: Now that is something Russians know how to make and blueberries are plentiful in Russia. I use this same recipe to make any form of a jam here in Russia, but since Russians are very likely to have a jar of homemade Blueberry Jam in the fridge! I decided to use Blueberries instead […]

A saying that is thrown around a lot on the internet by democracy pushers is: “It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.” by Sir Winston Churchill… Now that seems to me, that we are saying: All governments are yuck, but we have […]

Every once in awhile I find someone or someones that make me smile. This video is one of many videos that are done by the JulianSmith.tv… Gotta love it for I love coffee and I base many articles about sipping that cup of coffee… Try it you may like it: “Don’t Drink That Racist Coffee!” […]

I was drinking my morning cup of coffee & thinking about an old Children’s Park we found on a trip we took years ago. It was left to decay and grow over with weeds and it just seemed so sad… You could walk among the rides and still feel the energy of the kids running […]

The propaganda is strong here. They don’t know when to quit. Do the owners / controllers of our media hate Russia? Or just want to keep us fearful / hateful all of the time? Maybe both… It wouldn’t be such a big deal if there were true opposing views in our media, but there aren’t. […]

So I will give you a good reason why Russia could have cared less if America even showed up in the first place, besides that there is the fact that 95% of the world is pointing fingers at America, France, Britain and Canada for being crap-heads in the media about the Olympics in Sochi… Three […]

Russia’s western enclave of Kaliningrad embraced its medieval era roots by celebrating what is called “Long Sausage Day,” this past Saturday. The sausage, made according to an old secrete Prussian recipe, was 3 meters long and 30 centimeters thick… Kaliningrad has reinstated the Long Sausage Day last year, after a 400-year-long break. It first celebrated […]

Actually all I can say is, “Oh Wow!” Sveta fired up the computer, since we do not have a TV and got TV online and we spent three hours watching the opening ceremony of the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia… It was a packed house and it was very impressive to watch… All I […]