Once upon a time: I remember my first true experience with how Russians hide their businesses. We were on a trip that Sveta and I took to our village home. We had to find an auto parts. We finally asked if the town had an auto parts store? “Sure they did,” said everyone you asked. […]

Hello everyone, hope all is good today? It is hard to image how you can find a calm sort of peace within a city as huge as Moscow and her surroundings are. Huge in size and population. That is the thinking this morning as I sip on a wonderful cup of coffee. In fact I […]

Happy March 8th to everyone… From Sveta, Kyle and Boza at Windows to Russia…

BEIJING, Russia and China will jointly support the international peace an security, they will also defend results of World War II, China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi told a news conference on Sunday. “Russia and China are permanent members of the UN Security Council. We shall continue strategic coordination and cooperation for support of the international […]

I was drinking my cup of wonderful Russian coffee here in Moscow, Russia! The coffee is actually packaged in Germany and I was thinking about do they really make coffee in Germany? Germany leads EU in soluble coffee production: there’s an awful lot of soluble coffee produced in Germany but it is mostly intended for […]

President Putin also reduced the wages of Kremlin administration, government staff and the Chamber of Accounts by 10% as well. In a move that will shock the western governments. Russia has cut not just governmental employees salaries 10% (I hear that some salaries are mandated and some will not be cut in the lower levels […]

by John Stanton “…Evil minds that plot destruction. Sorcerers of death’s destruction. In the keeps turning. In the fields the bodies burning as the war machine keeps turning…Politicians hide themselves away. They only started the war. Why should they go out to fight? They leave that role to the poor.” Black Sabbath,War Pigs Oh, it’s […]

Oh that cup of coffee is good this cold and snowy morning. I have some thoughts to put down in writing and decided that you all need to endure some more thinking from an American in Russia. Therefore, grab a cup of coffee and or tea and sit awhile… Windows to Russia is an interesting […]

Freedom is an issue that I have dealt on before. It is the reason that I got an e-mail last night that lambasted me for even questioning the freedoms in America and comparing them to Russia. The fact that I consider Russia a freer country infuriated this person. They could not comprehend that Russia was […]