While I personally do not call this a Russian recipe. (I do not say that too loud here in Russia though.) They (Russians) seem to think that all food started in Russia and if you have served it before and are not Russian, you just copied it from the Russians… I have to attest that […]
Gotta love it and right now the Western press is having a cow over what Russia has just done. I have always said that it is a example of the pot calling the kettle black and now the kettle struck back. I mean the Western press is flat out screaming. There are hundreds of articles […]
How about a Russian tea recipe that I have had for years and years. My grandma use to make this tea and she would say that it had healing properties. It was good for a large get together and would keep the cold bugs at bay… I am not sure about how good it worked […]
Russia’s political life dominated world headlines in December, with the parliamentary election and its aftermath firmly in the spotlight. But what is the country’s direction in its international policy going to be like? RT spoke to Aleksey Pushkov, the newly-appointed chairman of the State Duma’s International Affairs Committee, about prospective changes that might be expected […]
Sveta and I just got back from Ukraine and we had a great time spending Christmas there. One of the things that I like to do is to keep people abreast of any changes by the border guards as I travel. There was a change this time and it was on the Russian side. The […]
That is what I was thinking after this trip to Ukraine. After some of the things that are being done by the Western world in Ukraine and Russia lately. I can only say, “Go Away – I like it here in Russia and Ukraine…” Sveta and I came upon a political area in downtown Kiev, […]
Looks like someone has not been paid yet by America… Lets look at some e-mails I got about the protest in Russia: I am a Russian women, protests are legitimate, we want Russia to become like USA ,with free market and more liberal values. I want more immigration and more and more Russians can marry […]
Hello Everyone, Sveta and I are in the Kiev train station as I write this. We got our business done and Sveta and I spent last night tripping the lights fantastic in Kiev, Ukraine… I will make this short and sweet but add a few pictures to show the New Year lights in Kiev… Oh […]
President Dmitry Medvedev delivering his annual address to the Russian Parliament. He is speaking in the St George Hall of the Moscow Kremlin. The address started at noon Moscow Time… — President Medvedev says Russia will not allow meddling in its internal affairs. Addressing the Federal Assembly on Thursday, he stressed that every citizen has […]
Well the train tickets that we could get, have us leaving on the 22nd of December at 9:30 pm and we will be back in Moscow on the 26th of December at 5:00 am. Two nights reserved and was just verified by the hotel for the nights of the 23rd and 24th of December. That […]