Windows to Russia

China is launching trading in forwards and swaps between the yuan and three more currencies, including the Russian ruble, from December 29, the China Foreign Exchange Trade System managed by the People’s Bank of China announced on Friday. China is also launching trading in contracts with the Malaysian ringgit and the New Zealand dollar from […]

Merry Christmas from Sveta and Kyle at Windows to Russia…

Koliadki are Russian Christmas cookies that are made to treat all the people who come to sing carols at your home. These cookies can have the many different types of fillings… Kolyadka (Ukrainian: колядка, Russian: колядка) is a traditional caroling song usually sung in Eastern Slavic countries (Belarus, Russia and Ukraine) only on Orthodox Christmas […]

I have been here nine years and when I first came to Russia, I thought that we were the same. I thought Americans and Russians, basically the same people. We look the same, we act the same on the surface, we smile the same, we walk the same, we talk the same, we laugh the […]

The Russians are arguably decades in front of us in rocket development since the 1970’s. Actually when they duplicated our shuttle program, it was years in front of anything we had considered. They are proficient and are eager to put resources into incremental change on existing innovation. That is a critical distinction from our (U.S.) […]

Across the street literally from our old McDonald’s is an even newer and I would say busier, Burger King. Two months ago, Sveta and I spied a sign that said hiring for Burger King. Then we found the building as we walked and then I said, “Burger King will open within months and not years […]

DNS Office 0802870 (Pentium N3530 2160 Mhz/17.3″/1600×900/4.0Gb/500Gb/DVD-RW/Intel GMA HD/Wi-Fi/Bluetooth/Без ОС) Laptop screen – 17.3 “ 2160 MHz – Pentium 4 core processor Memory – 4 GB DDR3 Integrated Graphics Drive (HDD) – 500 GB Optical drive – DVD-RW Bluetooth, Wi-Fi I asked Santa for this wonderful Russian made computer. Actually I asked Ded Moroz (the […]

Loaf white of bread, uncut – 4.5 rubles… (down 50% – to 8 cents a loaf) 100 grams coffee – 89 rubles… (down from 106 rubles to $1.57 a can) Red beets – 5 rubles a kilo… (9 cents a kilo) Whole Russian chicken – 78 rubles per kilo… ($1.38 a kilo) 1 big fat […]

Piglet is a traditional Russian Christmas dish. Its tender, delicious taste goes perfectly with any garnish and dressing. This dish may make some of you unhappy, but it is a real dish that is served in many a Russian home. In America Hogs are roasted in the ground and most people who eat it never […]

If you see yourself in this video, which many of you should. Then you need to think about what is being shown. It may not be totally accurate (But hey, we act this way with our smartphones!), but it is accurate in the prototypical aspect of it to humans and the future… ** Remember it […]