China, Russia issue joint statement on Syria

China and Russia on Thursday warned against military action to tackle the Syrian crisis in a joint statement. “The two countries hold that the threat of forces or external military intervention is absolutely unacceptable,” read the statement. The joint statement signed by the foreign affairs committees of China’s National People’s Congress and Russia’s Federation Council […]

USA Should Push Regime Change in Saudi Arabia:

Not Joint US-Saudi Intel-Military Operations by John Stanton According to Dave Ottoway, writing for the Foreign Policy Research Institute, “There is practically no civil society in Saudi Arabia. The country is run by the al-Saud royal family in partnership with a highly conservative religious establishment espousing a fundamentalist theology known as Wahhabism. The alliance goes […]

A Russian region bans foreign adoptions: Kemerovo…

In a growing movement across Russia and a movement not without a reasonable backing. The government of the coal-mining territory of Kemerovo, voted to completely end adoptions of any local born children by any and all foreigners, making their region the first area of the Russian Federation to introduce such a law… The official governmental […]

What Happened to the Russian Autumn?

There Is A Spell In Autumn: There is a spell in autumn early, One all too brief, of an enchantment rare: The nights are radiant and pearly, The days, pellucid, crystal-clear. Where played the sickle and fell the corn, a mellow, A warm and breathless stillness reigns supreme; Spanning the brown and idle furrow, A […]

Russian Village was perfect

  This last trip to the village home was a necessity to repair some items. It was also very wet and we had to drive through deep mud puddles. The mud and puddles were created by huge fish trucks plus tons of rain picking up fish and taking them to the market… Sammy the Volga […]

Fresh Eggs In Russia…

When I first came to Russia, I realized that many things were different, but the real differences are deep with in the systems of governmental issues. A difference that stands out to me is with eggs and once again the Russians and most Europeans have it correct and America missed the boat somewhere down the […]