Windows to Russia

Just thoughts for today… Need to install a couple of windows in the village home, mow the grass, tend to the garden plants and get some fresh air. Going to be warm and sunny the whole time and we can get lots done. Maybe, I can go fishing. Some river perch sound really good right […]

Ecuador is close to withdrawing asylum for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and evicting him from the Ecuadorian embassy in London where he has been living for six years, journalist Glenn Greenwald reported Saturday. Source: Report: Ecuador close to evicting Julian Assange from London embassy | National | heraldmailmedia.com I know right and wrong when I […]

Somewhere between when I was a little tyke playing army in the backyard with my GI Joe gun and grenades and as I write this post a whole bunch of years later; Someone decided that infinite growth through unlimited debt was the answer to all the worlds problems… It is like another ponzi scheme and […]

I have been stunned by the appearance of road drainage… This is not a common thing. Yes, Russia has drainage on a few selected big highways, but for the most part, you never see road water drainage anywhere and will encounter huge ponds to drive/walk through… But… I am seeing that the infrastructure is actually […]

Since WtR is a little guy, with huge things to say. It is easy to shut down a site like WtR. It happens and yesterday again, either through a plugin and or through a weakness in the theme of the blog, WtR was torn to pieces… You see the fact that they can mess up […]

Just some images to show you around. Svetochka has family in from Great Britain and they went traipsing around the Kremlin in Moscow. Being an American, I seem to scare the rest of the family and they do better without me around… 😉 Little known fact in America. The Russians are much more comfortable around […]

VDNKh is launching a new summer project titled “Music on the Rooftop.” Between June 17 and August 26, Muscovites and tourists will be able to listen to live music on the roof of Worker and Kolkhozwoman Pavilion. The stage and the auditorium, with comfortable chairs and cushions, are located right at the base of the […]

I hope the White House corrects the record and denounces in categorical terms this ridiculous request from Putin. Not doing so creates moral equivalency between a legitimacy US indictment of Russian intelligence officers and a crazy, completely fabricated story invented by Putin https://t.co/K1ZvrNwTu3 — Michael McFaul (@McFaul) July 18, 2018 Michael McFaul that ambassador that […]

Trump is demonized by his own country (USA), more than they (USA) demonize Putin. Yet Putin is suppose to be the leader of the most evil country in the universe and Putin is the most brutal dictator who ever lived….and Trump is president of the most “special” country in the world… Hmm….weird we have become… […]

Actually two water spouts….called one black and one white… Mother Nature is so cool… WtR