Windows to Russia

This amendment was another case of the pot calling the kettle black and as I study more and more history, America has got to be the king at using this method of mannerisms. Jackson/Vanik had this correct but they aimed it at the rest of the world. Jackson said, “A country that does not respect […]

I guess I am old fashion because I find one to one communication to be so much better than by electronic ways. If you have ever traveled Russia by train you will experience hundreds and hundreds of kilometers that are electronic-less vacuums in space. You are in a cocoon that is sealed to the outside […]

Going to Ukraine this weekend and I really expect to find a different Ukraine as compared to the last 3 or 4 times I have been there. The last time in January 2010 that I was there, Kiev was beginning to become a much happier place. Just like it was before the crash of all […]

It was just a few months ago that workers who were building a federal road to the site of the 2012 APEC summit near Vladivostok dug up a mass burial grave. The huge grave held some of the victims of the “political persecution campaigns” in the 1930s. The road construction was immediately stopped and the […]

Today I tried out the new camera phone (The one I will use all the time.) and it is not quite as good as the older phone we had. But it does OK and cost a quarter of the last one! The day was very hazy and it looks like we finally have a touch […]

I heard that they had some. I heard that you could find them near the University of Moscow. But I have never seen one in Russia until the other day. Svet and I walked by a doctors building and… I started acting crazy and Svet thought I had lost my mind! I finally found a […]