Windows to Russia

UPDATE: MOSCOW, March 2 (RIA Novosti) – The investigation into the death of a 3-year-old adopted Russian boy in the United States earlier this year was hampered by overriding political concerns, Russia’s child rights ombudsman suggested on Saturday, after US officials ruled his death was an accident. “His bruises disappeared, the medicine vanished, his adoptive […]

Every once in a while life throws me a pitch that is easy to hit and yesterday life tossed me a wonderful pitch and I took advantage of it. In Russia it has been a lot of long years since I saw any real Mexican food, or at least real enough to get excited about […]

Yes Russia has a Fairy Tale Cake and it is very rich and moist. It only seems natural that Russians would have a cake like this. They are very much into fairy tales and stories equivalent to that… So lets make a Fairy Tale Cake and enjoy a little Russian tradition Ingredients for cake: 10 […]

Russia’s oil major Rosneft is borrowing $30 billion, from China, this will be in exchange for doubling its oil supplies to China and that would make China the largest consumer of Russian oil. Rosneft needs this loan to close the $55 billion acquisition of rival TNK-BP in 2013 to become the world’s largest listed oil […]

Today in Russia I watched a bunch of kids using rubber tipped bow and arrows, plastic swords, snowballs and play plastic assault rifles with no orange tip on them. They had a regular war going on and all was fair in “Love and War…” A deep dug fort, kinda set up like a pillbox with […]

As with everything in the world, nothing happens when it should. The Yo-Mobile is no exception. This picture above is the latest prototype and it is definitely “WOW” factor all the way… Auto company called “E-car” will start production of hybrid vehicles on or after March 2015, this was told to reporters Thursday by board […]

Each week, nearly 60,000 children in the United States are reported as abused or neglected, with nearly 900,000 confirmed abuse victims in 2004. About 520,000 of those children end up in foster care each year — double the number 25 years ago. Approximately 800,000 children every year come in contact with the foster care system… […]

This morning while I am looking over the comments around the world, about various subjects that seem to matter. One subject that I see come up time and time again is complaints about buying Chinese made in the USA. So as I sip a cup of coffee, I will tell you how simple it is […]