Hello,

Mulder and Scully from the X-Files have been thrown in cages in Russia. What are Mulder and Scully doing caged up in the Russian city of Ekaterinburg?

Ekaterinburg a town on the eastern slopes of the Urals mountains on the banks of the beautiful Iset river has a Zoo and it seems that employees of the city zoo have named a pair of skunks after the famous TV – FBI agents, the stars of the X-Files series.

Mulder and Scully are two striped skunks that were brought to the Ekaterinburg zoo from Moscow. They are currently in quarantine to ensure good health and will be on public view in mid-September. The normally pungent scented pair will now leave the air fresh since their scent glands, which release a distinctly revolting odor when skunks feel threatened, have been removed.

“The skunks are called Mulder and Scully. It was the employees who gave them their names, despite the fact that there’s nothing mysterious about them.” said a zoo representative in an interview.

This is the first time that the Ekaterinburg zoo has acquired skunks. (Link)

What good names for skunks! Gotta love it.

Kyle & Svet

Hello,

I had a comment that came from a reader awhile back who stated that he thought it would be nice to see pictures about the rebuilding of South Ossetia. Well today I found pictures from RIA. I will allow the pictures to speak for themselves……

Kyle & Svet

comments always welcome.

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If you are like me, then you are dissatisfied with the state of affairs back home in the USA! It will not change if all you do is whine about it! Every Vote counts….

Kyle & Svet

comments always welcome.

SEVASTOPOL, September 2 (RIA Novosti) – The U.S. Coast Guard cutter Dallas left Sevastopol Tuesday morning after anti-NATO protests in Ukraine’s Crimean port.

The Dallas, which recently delivered humanitarian aid to Georgia’s Black Sea port of Batumi, docked on Monday at the Crimean port, where Russia has a naval base, at the invitation of Kiev.

The ship’s arrival was met by thousands of anti-NATO protesters chanting “Yankees go home!” and waving banners with the slogan “NATO Stop!” Police cordoned off the area around the ship.

Ukrainian customs officers who boarded the ship and met the commander said they had been prepared to lay on buses for the U.S. crew to give them a tour of the city, but apart from a few officers, no one left the vessel. (Link)

Glad to see that the USA Navy found out how the people in Crimea feel about them. The fact that they went to the port in a high tension area showed lack of intelligence or wanting to stir up trouble.

They found trouble and They left…..

Kyle & Svet

PS: Russia has repeatedly complained that NATO has too many ships in the Black Sea. Foreign Ministry official Andrei Nesterenko said Tuesday that currently there are two U.S., one Polish, one Spanish and one German ship there. Russian officials say the United States could have delivered weapons to Georgia under the guise of humanitarian aid.”We don’t understand what American ships are doing on the Georgian shores, but this is a question of taste, it’s a decision by our American colleagues,” Putin said. “The second question is why the humanitarian aid is being delivered on naval vessels armed with the newest rocket systems.” (hummm)

Hello,

I will have to say that in a general sense BBC has a better approach to Russia than USA Media does. I am glad to see that, For the Russian media talks good about the whole situation with the EU. Moscow looks forward to real communication and desires it. But as you can see CNN headlines the situation to make it sound like Russia is threatening the EU! Guess what? Russia is not threatening the EU.

These articles are over the same meeting by the European Union!

Title say it all……

Kyle & Svet

comments always welcome.

Hello,

EU, NATO, UN, America, USA, Europe, Western World: Listen up and remember this!

In this part of the world Ukraine has decided to irritate Russia about the Black Sea Fleet….

Ukraine demands Russia to give 72 hour notice on Black Sea Fleet movements. Ukraine passed a bill announcing that Russia must……. “restrict Russian warships at the leased military base at the Black Sea port of Sevastopol, saying the vessels` movements were subject to Ukrainian approval.” (Bad move Ukraine)

Ukraine to increase rent for Russian Fleet by up to 25 times. From January 1, 2009, the Ukrainian leadership is planning to up the rent for the Crimean territories where Russia’s Black Sea Fleet is stationed…… (Can some say, Stupid move?)

Why would Ukraine do this?

My only thought is that they want to loose the Crimea……

In Moscow, coverage of Georgia has so far drowned out the rumblings in Ukraine, but some Muscovites are clear where they stand…

“No one in my circle —and they’re rather well educated— would say the Crimea is Ukrainian territory.”

I will attest to that, Russians feel that the Crimea is Russia and you will see that Crimea thinks it is Russian. That was the first issue that I got to experience in Ukraine at Border crossings, When you cross into the Crimea you cross into another world. My wife automatically says: “Yes, Crimea is Russian” as the thought any other way is non existent…

So when Ukraine gets itself into hot water over trying to play games with the Russian Black Sea Fleet don’t sit in front of your TV and say: “I did not know that!” as you are told lies about Russia is aggressively acting and started this, blah, blah, blah!

For the Fact is: Ukraine started the game of: Russian Black Sea Fleet will do as we say or else… (This is not a game with Gas & Corporate issues, this is a game over Military issues and Russia will never accept that.)

So when the world turns upside down again and Ukraine is crying about Bad Evil Russia: Remember that Ukraine kept poking the Bear over Russia’s Black Sea Fleet…

Posted by Kyle Keeton
Windows to Russia…

Better yet watch this interesting video…..

Another tidbit of information:

As of September 1, you can not watch RussiaToday in USA (or it’s only Manhattan?)- Time Warner has put frame “Lao Star TV USA coming soon…” instead. Is this Sanctions in action?

Just some info……..

Kyle & Svet

Ingushetiya.ru, Owner Shot Dead!

Hello,

This is a good one and believe me there is much more to this story than what is being told. But nothing changes the facts that a man was shot and dumped near a hospital to die.

The owner of the embattled opposition web site Ingushetiya.ru was killed Sunday after being detained by police, and his supporters promised massive protests that could lead to a sharp escalation in violence in the restive region.

Magomed Yevloyev, a prominent opposition member and staunch critic of Ingush President Murat Zyazikov, was detained in Ingushetia’s main city of Nazran as he stepped off a plane from Moscow, his lawyer and friend Kaloi Akhilgov said by telephone.

He said Yevloyev had flown in business class with Zyazikov, a retired general from the Federal Security Service, and suggested that the two might have quarreled during the flight.

Ingush police said they had wanted to question Yevloyev in connection with an investigation into an explosion in Nazran earlier this year, Interfax reported.

Once inside the police car, Yevloyev, a Moscow-based lawyer and former investigator in the Ingush Prosecutor’s Office, attempted to wrestle an assault rifle away from one of the officers and was accidentally shot in the head during the scuffle, the police said.

Ingush opposition activist Magomed Khazbiyev said Yevloyev was found lying near a Nazran hospital with a bullet in his temple, Interfax reported. (Link)

Am I to believe that he was shot accidentally? (sources say shot in the temple)
Am I to believe that he tried to grab a gun?
Am I to believe that he was detained by police and was not constrained away from weapons?
Am I to believe that it was real cops that detained him?
Am I to believe that he was not wanted for termination?

What I do believe with out a doubt, is that it was a very badly planned issuance. That two wrongs do not make a right. I believe that a big mistake was made, even if it was someone that was considered very wrong in his way and manners of getting his point across.

His past and the way he proceeded to express himself got him in hot water and now he will be 6 foot under. Earlier in August, the Moscow City Court upheld a lower court’s decision in June to close Ingushetiya.ru on charges of carrying extremist content. Prosecutors have also accused the web site of inciting ethnic hatred.

There is a song by Kenny Rogers, The Gambler:

You got to know when to hold ’em, know when to fold ’em,
Know when to walk away and know when to run.
You never count your money when you’re sittin’ at the table.
There’ll be time enough for countin’ when the dealin’s done.

now Ev’ry gambler knows that the secret to survivin’
Is knowin’ what to throw away and knowing what to keep.
‘Cause ev’ry hand’s a winner and ev’ry hand’s a loser,
And the best that you can hope for is to die in your sleep.”

It did not help that his last hand he played in life, was on the jet that they detained him from. He got into an argument with Ingush President Murat Zyazikov, a retired general from the Federal Security Service. (opps)

What I believe is that he was not killed by accident and no one in their right mind would believe that, even me…..

Kyle & Svet

comments always welcome.

Hello,

Well looks like our vacation could become a war zone…….
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Sep. 1, 2008
JPost.com Staff , THE JERUSALEM POST

The Dutch intelligence service, the AIVD, has called off an operation aimed at infiltrating and sabotaging Iran’s weapons industry due to an assessment that a US attack on the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program is imminent, according to a report in the country’s De Telegraaf newspaper on Friday.

The report claimed that the Dutch operation had been “extremely successful,” and had been stopped because the US military was planning to hit targets that were “connected with the Dutch espionage action.”

The impending air-strike on Iran was to be carried out by unmanned aircraft “within weeks,” the report claimed, quoting “well placed” sources.

The Jerusalem Post could not confirm the De Telegraaf report.

According to the report, information gleaned from the AIVD’s operation in Iran has provided several of the targets that are to be attacked in the strike, including “parts for missiles and launching equipment.”

“Information from the AIVD operation has been shared in recent years with the CIA,” the report said.

On Saturday, Iran’s Deputy Chief of Staff General Masoud Jazayeri warned that should the United States or Israel attack Iran, it would be the start of another World War.

On Friday, Ma’ariv reported that Israel had made a strategic decision to deny Iran military nuclear capability and would not hesitate “to take whatever means necessary” to prevent Teheran from achieving its nuclear goals.

According to the report, whether the United States and Western countries succeed in thwarting the Islamic Republic’s nuclear ambitions diplomatically, through sanctions, or whether a US strike on Iran is eventually decided upon, Jerusalem has begun preparing for a separate, independent military strike.
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Can they wait until after we travel to Israel in October? (Like how about: No War!)

We really want to go to Israel and see the Holy land before it gets redecorated!

Kyle & Svet

Hello,

I was drinking my morning cup of coffee and came across Russia Banning 19 USA Poultry Companies. I turned to my wife and said Tyson Foods is going to be one of these companies. Guess what? It was….

How would I know this: Amongst my resume of things that I have done in my life, I spent many years dealing with Corporate Food Service! One of the issues that befalls upper management is to make deals with other Corporations for food supplies. One of the worst suppliers that I had to deal with was Tyson Foods. I vetoed many shipments of Tyson products in my time. why? Because they were made up up substandard products and non compliance with rules & regulations.

Why do you think that in the early 2000’s Tyson is and was one of the top 10 worst Corporations in America? (The situation has not gotten any better with Tyson over antibiotics in chickens!)

When I see Tyson in the store here, I just shake my head and say to my wife, “Don’t buy….!”

Kyle & Svet

comments always welcome.