Month: December 2010

Lavrov Speaks Out On Khodorkovsky…


RIA NovostiRussian Foreign Minister Sergei LavrovRussia’s foreign minister lashes out at criticism over Khodorkovsky verdict (Update 2)

14:53 31/12/2010 The Russian judiciary system is completely independent from the positions of the Russian Federation and any other foreign government, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Friday.>>

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Coffee and Gone is 2010 and Hello 2011…


Windows to Russia reached a total of 2226 posts by the end of 2010. 783 posts were turned out during the 2010 year. That is what was going through my mind this morning as I sipped my coffee. Then I asked myself what am I doing it for? It is a good question because I have enough to do with out worrying about a blog. For that fact a bunch of blogs…

Then with all the nasty e-mail/comments that I get. I really wonder why I do it? Then I receive a e-mail/comment that makes me understand why I do it…

Kyl, i sumetimes git upset at the way Utell us that U.S. is got your words “issues”. i then git spiked enough and google it. i find U right two many times. i dont like U when U right. Papaw told i many times that Rusia is commuist and anyone who shake hand is a commy! i no Rusia not commy now. Papaw is prbly turn in his grave cause i read Ur stuff. i asked to self why? Why do we spike Rusia? i wrote time ago a bad toss at you. i wilnt cus this time. i ask my teach abot tis? “””A patrot was one that loves ther country, but wonlt blinly folow ther goverment everystuffs. But now it means, it a body hoo blinly folow everystuffs thems coutry goverment did, and cant think on them ownes”””  Muy teach got spiked and shotted that i um American. That when i saw some light and spak. Could be we hav a “issue” in U.S.? i read even if i git spiked at U. TY fore time.  Jeramy

As we go into 2011. I remember why I am doing this:

To change the way the World looks at Russia, one person at a time…

When I first started, that was my goal. Not a very lofty goal. But a simple yet exceedingly difficult goal. I am bucking years and years of attitude and propaganda. From both the Western and Eastern side…

The e-mail above came last night. The end of the year. It is heart rendering to me to have left it in its basic form, but I felt that it would be wrong to alter in anyway. It was not malice or hate intended. In fact it was a compliment that I take dear to my heart. I looked for the quote that he made. I found what I think he is referring:

A Patriot was someone who loves their country and supports it, but won’t blindly follow whatever their country’s government does. These days, it is synonymous with Nationalist, which is someone who blindly follows whatever his country’s government does, and lacks his own ability to think and reason for himself. (Link)

The part that bothers me, (coming from a family of teachers) is the teachers response…

So I go into 2011 and will continue with my writings. You can hate me, love me or wish I was dead. But 2226 posts and 4 years ago, I started this project. It was the coming and living in Russia that cleared my senses to what was happening in America. So for that, I support Russia with all my heart. For that I support people in America to wake up before it is too late, because I love America with more than all my heart…

I received another comment from a good reader the other day. It tells me something:

Its interesting how influenced we are by propaganda. I have been very busy these last few months, so I have not been able to follow the news the way I would like, and I too was under the impression that START was finally ratified in the states. After only living in the states for a year and a half, I am now completely engrossed in the propaganda machine and accept things for face value again, knowing full well how much farce is being pushed to the public.

Its odd, it didn’t take long for me to see through America’s political charade once I left the country. However, upon returning, it didn’t take long for me to once again feel at home and accept this charade as truth. Either I am incredibly weak, or the propaganda machine is extremely fine tuned.

I understand what was said very well and the “propaganda machine is extremely fine tuned”…

Have a Happy New Year Everyone!

Thank you to all my readers and hope you are looking forward to another year of “Windows to Russia”…

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How long till the New Years 2011: Russian Style…


How long till the New Years: Russian Style…

Timer kinda broke but it is for the dancing duo that I posted it…

Click link at bottom that says “А на бис слабо?” to repeat the performance…

Sveta found this for me and we really like it. It will make you smile…

Happy New Year!

Kyle and Sveta

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In Russia We Will Be Civilized!


In Russia we call phone for fire (01), police (02), and ambulance (03),

We will soon be call phone #112 for all above,

We will be civilized like west!

Yngvar (Igor)

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Too Little and Too Late, the Natives are Restless…


Stranded passengers on the war path at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo airport. The weather is holding them captive and Russia is not known for their customer service in situations like this… (Or actually in all situations!)

Looking grim-faced, Mr Putin called for more work and less whining. The Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin handed out blistering criticism on Wednesday to airport and airline officials who have failed to adequately deal with passengers during mass flight delays in Moscow in the last few days…

After all these years here, it really is hard for me to imagine service with a smile and helpfulness in time of need. That Russia could even be service minded in any situation just does not compute…

So being “too little and too late” the natives are restless. Watch while they beat the drums in protest. Glad it was not considered an unsanctioned rally…

Service and hospitality at a business is a foreign concept here…

Read this article to get a great view point on Russian service:

http://amrusob.blogspot.com/2010/12/my-true-sour-cream-shopping.html

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Ouch – We Saw This Coming A Mile Away – START…


Good article from news site: The Voice of Russia. A good English based website for up to date news about Russia…

http://english.ruvr.ru/2010/12/29/38236184.html

Russia insists on offensive/defensive link in START: By Yevgeny Kryshkin

The State Duma (the lower house of the Russian parliament) plans to confirm the link between the reduction of the strategic offensive arms and the restriction of antimissile defense systems’ deployment in the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START), signed between the US and Russia, Konstantin Kosachev, chairman of the Duma Committee on International Affairs says.

“During the ratification of START in the US Congress the American lawmakers noted that the link between strategic offensive armed forces and antimissile defense systems is not juridically binding for the parties. They referred to the fact that this link was fixed only in the preamble of the document. Such an approach can be regarded as the US’ attempt to find an option to build up its strategic potential and the Russian lawmakers cannot agree with this,” Kosachev says.

We will deal with these interpretations. The first thing is that our American colleagues do not recognize the legal force of the treaty’s preamble. The preamble sets a link between strategic offensive arms and defensive arms. The second thing is an attempt to interpret certain provisions of the treaty unilaterally.

The Russian lawmakers insist that all the chapters of the treaty including the preamble are legally binding, which is a common norm of international law. It is not lawful to take certain provisions and to give them unilateral interpretations like the American senators do, Alexei Arbatov, a member of the Carnegie Scientific Council, says.

This is our reaction on the US steps, which are not justified because you cannot selectively validate or invalidate certain provisions of the treaty. We are quite consistent here. We said that the entire treaty, the preamble and the articles have the same judicial force. This is logical and this is right.

The Russian lawmakers expect that the work on the respective resolution will be completed in a few days. The State Duma will approve the draft of START’s ratification together with all related statements and reservations by February.

Hummm…

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Medvedev Firing Some More…


Russian President Medvedev has terminated two senior officials from the Russian space agency Roscosmos located in Korolev where Sveta and I live. They were terminated for the earlier failed launch of the Proton rocket carrying three Glonass navigation system satellites…

I got to say one thing. Medvedev will fire your butt if you don’t get the job done and done correct. This year heads have rolled all over the country. I expect many more to follow suit… 🙁

Cool…

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Coffee and The Spam King Country…


I was drinking my morning cup of coffee and was going through hundreds and hundreds of spam comments. It then struck me that I had read several articles in the last few years about how bad Russia and China were on the spam attacks in the world. They explain that China and Russia were just hotbeds of evil spam machines that terrorized our computers 24 – 7…

Now we all have heard about the Russia Spam King and when he was caught that all world spam fell by 50 billion emails a day! After he was put away. The Western press made a huge deal out of it and you would have thought that spam was a bygone product because this kid was neutered…

The number of spam emails sent globally has fallen by one fifth or fifty billion emails each day after a Russian spamming operation was shut down a month ago. (Link)

Sorry, that is just not the only story. I have been tracking spam since 2007. I have a faithful little invisible pixel that has been in my templates since the beginning of my desires to write a blog. It is attached to a code that tracks all things interesting and vital. Like spam and where you come from? Do you use a proxy? Etc, etc, etc…

So after all these years who is king?

1. United States (It is 4X South Korea)
2. South Korea (2X Brazil)
3. Brazil (Same as India)
4. India (2X Argentina)
5. Argentina (More than all the rest of the world put together…)

The list above is from my data base. This is not official and not from “Gods Gift to Website Statistics” type sites that spout all knowledge about the web as the final word. Russia and China are in the top 10 but near the bottom of the list…

This information is from millions and millions of spam comments based on Email Spam, Comment Spam and Social Networking Spam…

Never was Russia nor China the king of spam. Never even before this young man was caught, was Russia at the top. China was never in the top 5. But the USA is by far the king of spam. The US has been number one since the day I started to track spam and no one is close to the amount of spam that I get from The United States… (Nor death threats and hate comments for that matter…)

Want to know what city is the “King of Spam” in the USA? Glad you asked…

Washington DC…  (They also rule on death threats and hate comments also…)

So while I am sipping that wonderful hot cup of coffee. I have a daunting task ahead to sift through hundreds and hundreds of daily spam to try to catch those few real comments that did not make it through…

By the way it is snowing like crazy here in Moscow… 🙂

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Russia Says, “The Western World needs to Mind their own Business, both at Home and on the International Arena”…


In the news:  Russia sees trash talk being made in the US and the EU concerning the ongoing trial of jailed oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky and his business partner Platon Lebedev as substandard…

In connection with the statements voiced in Washington and a number of capitals in the European Union regarding the trial of M. Khodorkovsky and P. Lebedev, we would like to underline once again that this issue is under the jurisdiction of the court system of the Russian Federation. Attempts to put pressure on the court are unacceptable,” the Ministry said on Tuesday.

Russia Says, “The Western World needs to Mind their own Business, both at Home and on the International Arena.”

Other words: Get your own house in order. Before you can complain…

Other words: Look in the Mirror!

How is that reset?

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Vladimir Putin Orders Russian Government to Switch to Free Software by 2015


Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has signed a government order that lays out the groundwork for the transition of federal bodies and agencies to use free software, including Linux, by 2015.

The 25-point document (available here) outlines specific steps the government must take in order to move off proprietary software and onto free and/or open source alternatives like Linux. The government order was approved on December 17 and affects all federal agencies of the federal budget.

Each point of the document names the specific action that must be taken, the agency responsible for implementing that order, the time frame for implementation, and the expected result. For example, point #5 instructs Russia’s Ministry of Communications to form, “the base package of free software solutions for typical problems of the federal executive bodies,” with the expected result a free package of software that includes operating systems, drivers and application software for servers.

Order #5 calls for, “creating and maintaining a single repository of free software used in the federal bodies of executive power,” while order #20 requires, “the development of departmental plans to move to the use of free software, including plans for transition of subordinate budget institutions.” The final order, to be implemented in Q3 2015, calls for, “preparation of the draft orders of the Government of the Russian Federation on the adoption of a phased introduction of free software for the next planning period.”

Russia has been moving in the direction of free software for the last few years. In 2008, the government ordered schools to implement free software packages in all of its computers. Schools that now want to use proprietary software have to pay for it out of their own pockets.

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