Windows to Russia

I wrote this post and then hesitated a few days. I decided to post it anyway! The reason I hesitated was because years ago, Ukraine blocked my website, when I wrote about interesting happenings there. It took me two years (many e-mails and a lot of work) to get my site unblocked in Ukraine and […]

Interesting facts about the monastery: 1. The monastery was begun around 1330 by a Tatar convert, Prince Chet, whose male-line descendants include Solomonia Saburova and Boris Godunov… 2. In 1613, it was announced that Mikhail Romanov, who had been in this monastery at that time, would be the new Russian tsar… 3. The Ipatiev Monastery […]

This recipe is one of my favorites. It is not one that I can make in Russia very easily, because we do not have Russian style dressing in Russia. You know that famous Russian, Catalina dressing that is yummy on salads. I was always amazed that we have a Russian dressing and Russians are like, […]

I have reached a saturation point on the ridiculous rhetoric coming from the west about the Winter Olympics in Russia. For years it has been hardly tolerable, but now it has reached a level of stupidity that even the west should be embarrassed about. The anti-Olympic propaganda is totally out of control… As Sveta says, […]

I write everyday. Most is not on Windows to Russia and actually most is within 4 novels I am writing. Three are near completion and I hope that within a year. One of them will be done. I have had to learn much patience when it comes to writing. That is my cup of coffee […]

I was raised that when we are in charge of something, anything, that we as the boss take the blame no matter what anyone under us does. We may deal with that person after the effect, but we as the boss takes the heat… I had a sign on my office door, “The buck stops […]

Baranki were first introduced to me, Sveta and I were traveling to Ukraine by car. We stopped at a quick stop and picked up these doughnut looking things. I had no idea what to expect and I will tell you that while they are shaped like a doughnut, they taste like a slightly sweet pretzel […]

500,000 barrels of Iranian oil a day for Russian equipment and other goods. This program using barter methods is worth around $1.5 billion US every month.  This is designed to undermine western sanctions and this same process is also being used by India and China already… We will see about this as Russia and Iran […]

A couple of years ago I talked about this and I thought that this would be a great idea. On election ballots the people in Russia have a chance to vote, “Against All!” Other words, if you think that all candidates suck, then you can vote that they suck, by telling everyone, “I am against […]