This New 2013 Year has crawled to us so imperceptibly as if a cat playing hide-and-seek game with a mouse. Here it is the 2012th at one moment, and at the other moment it has been been already 2013th. Where is that borderline? A cat and a mouse don’t know. And what about us? Neither…
One. If ever anyone has fulfilled his childhood dream, it’s Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield, who did it for the third time this week,as he blasted off on a Russian Soyuz rocket to command the International Space Station (ISS). It’s a dream he has never let go of since he was nine years old. The Russian…
On her way from Nova-Sad, Serbia back home to Russia where Emma was visiting with her daughter’s family she stopped in Moscow. Arts was her long-term hobby, so Emma went to the Moscow Sate Art Gallery of Alexander Shilov on September 28, 2012. To the left is Emma’s photo and to the right is the photo…
When the book is autographed by the author, for me as if Zoia Iosifovna were visiting us at Calgarian home personally. Look at the photos to the left showing these events. Impressions about this book? The most positive and inspiring. Professor of history and languages,Zoia Iosifovna, has focused on the House of Romanov from outset…
One. Norwegian Puzzle App was launched recently by Autonomy Inc./Rick Scott Productions. It is an exciting new puzzle game app for Android and Apple mobile/tablet devices. Norwegian puzzles feature all the beautiful ships and the exciting destinations people sail to. Here are some of the features: *over 100 free puzzles *3 levels of play/complexity *timer to…
“A wind has blown the rain away and blown the sky away. And…
Egor the Elk was warbling into our life and obviously to the others as well as a someone who was both unlikely and unwelcome guest. As there is a saying in Russia “welcome worse than a tatar”. Usually elks live in herds, stick together, in a way, protect each other. But this fellow, Janko called…
Autumn in Calgary is delicious. Janko went out to the Pinecliff Park just opposite our street and started the conversation with the foreman of the Volker Steven working at the moment. Janko (1): The weather is fine today, isn’t it? Foreman (2): Yes, indeed. It helps us to make it easier to conduct the maintenance…
First. Peter Lougheed, the most successful Alberta politician of the past half-century, died on Thursday night in the Calgary hospital named after him. He was 84. “We have lost a great man, and a great Canadian and a great Albertan. And we just want a chance now for Albertans and Canadians to pay tribute to…
Reading the book “Lord of Alaska” by Hector Chevigny about Alexander Andreyevich Baranov, the first Governor of the Russian America (1799-1818), it became interesting what this name did come from. “Russian America” was the name of Russian colonial possessions in the Americas from 1733 to 1867 that today is the US state of Alaska and…