Windows to Russia

This is simple and very normal. You push on someone too much and they will hold hands with someone to overcome the crap, being shoved at them… Russia and China will coordinate their reactions to US plans to boost its missile defense in the Asia-Pacific region and they will do what it takes to effectively […]

This week, Russian Orthodox believers began observing the seven-week Lent and will abstain from meat, fish, eggs, dairy products and alcohol until Easter is celebrated on May 5, 2013… Lent, is the 40 day period of fasting and prayer before Easter. The 40 days represents the time Jesus spent in the desert overcoming temptation by […]

To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries: Aldous Huxley… I have mentioned many things over the years and many things that I have mentioned are about the strange ways that Russians do things. I thought that today I would talk about these things, that even after 7 full years, I […]

EU, Cyprus Act ‘Like Bull in China Shop’ – Russian PM… Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev on Wednesday slammed the European Union and Cyprus for their handling of the island nation’s debt woes. Medvedev told a group of European media outlets in an interview that the crisis had been entirely mishandled, undermining confidence in financial […]

Sveta and I need to get a way from all the snow. Especially Sveta, she is going snow crazy. I understand why and if you saw out our windows today you would see snow falling and falling. That is the thinking’s today and that is what is going with a cup of delicious coffee as […]

Reported out of Baghdad: A wave of bombings tore through the Baghdad area Tuesday, killing 57 people on the eve of the 10th anniversary of the U.S.-led invasion and showing how unstable Iraq remains more than a year after the withdrawal of American troops… This is so sad and is really what is wrong with […]

They burned the straw man, asked for forgiveness and ate enough pancakes to choke a horse! Maslenitsa is over for another year and everyone is hoping that Spring will soon come, as the fields will turn green with a bountiful harvest. It goes like this every year… Monday is called “a meeting”. With the first […]

Years ago I decided that a Bank was a crooked institute! I was scoffed at and ridiculed at, that I refused to use a bank account. In fact I refused to use any service of a bank, as it was to my belief that Banks are there only for taking your money and if something […]

“The wire reports on the Cyprus situation are working overtime to try to make the case that 80% of the deposits belong to the people of Cyprus, and only 20% of the deposits belong to the Russians. That’s absolutely false. After 1985, when the Robber Barron’s of Russia took over the general economics of Russia, […]

Moscow gathered another 24 centimeters of snowfall late on Friday and early on Saturday, bringing the total so far this winter to (and it is still around and packed solid): 279+ centimeters. That is over 9 feet to metric illiterates and more is coming down right now, as I write this article excerpt. I see […]