Year: 2012

TEHRAN – The 16th Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) Summit opened in Tehran on Thursday under the theme of “Lasting Peace through Joint Global Governance.”

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said in an address to the opening ceremony that “The Islamic republic is not after nuclear weapons” and will never slacken off its right to the ” peaceful” use of nuclear energy.

Khamenei said that Iran’s slogan is “Nuclear energy for all, nuclear weapons for none.”

He slammed at the western propaganda against the nuclear program of the Islamic republic and stated that “A few Western countries want to build a monopoly of nuclear fuel.”

Khamenei condemned the Israeli “occupation” of the Palestinian territory which should be ruled by the Palestinians the NAM should take practical steps in this regard.

He also said the UN structure is “illogical,” “unjust” and “non- democratic” and stated that “The world must not be controlled by a few dictatorial regimes.”

The Iranian leader pointed out that “disarmament is an urgent necessity” in today’s world and the Islamic republic calls for a Middle East free from nuclear weapons.

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Going to the village is goat milk heaven. We got a liter and a half yesterday and it is all gone. Hopefully tomorrow we will get some more and keep my coffee and goat milk sipping going as I write…

The village is not just goat milk, the village is about the simple things in life…

I am just using goats milk as a sounding board, but the village is just the simple things in life and that is what makes it perfect…

I spend my time in Moscow and I definitely find Moscow nothing like a big city. In Moscow we can find fresh anything on the street corner all day long, but still the village is the epitome of the simple things in life. While Moscow is a simple life, compared to a Western big city. Our village is simple life taken to a purer level. In Moscow they survive by trying to carry the village with them in the city, but it does not work as it should and the effects of the big city still overshadow the simple life…

Russians still have not lost that desire to get back to their roots. I have regained that desire, a desire that I had lost due to overwhelming pressure in America…

So as it rains this morning and I sip that cup of delicious coffee. I am thinking about the 30 or 40 people that are running around the village this week. They are getting that last week in before life, forces them to have to traipse back to the big city and start school and work again…

Life is all about the simple things and when we forget that, we have lessened our life and its experiences…

Kyle Keeton
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This is our village home in Russia. It is not fancy but it is comfortable and solid. We have electricity run throughout the cabin, but water is from a well that you have to carry by bucket…

We also use propane for cooking and that means when the power goes down as it does all the time, we can still cook. I am looking into seeing about having a propane refrigerator, just like in my travel trailers in my past. It would be nice to refrigerate off of electricity and in emergency switch to propane. Sometimes power is out for weeks at a time in the village…

I just thought that you would like to see a fresh picture of our village home and also for some of the critics that say I do not even go to a Russian village to stay. You know, people amaze me and it stuns me to think that anyone would think that I take all this trouble to record my adventures in Russia as a propaganda tool…

The only propaganda that I worry about is the crap from America…

What appearers on this website is my thoughts and my likes and my dislikes! No one pays me to write this and I can tell you as fact no one ever clicked any adsense. So that is not a good reason to have this website…

This website is being done, because I really love Russia and I think Russia is a better place than America has become. I am not saying Russia is better than America has been. I am saying that Russia has now surpassed America as America slides downhill…

Time to stop the downhill slide and start going upwards again. Get those freedoms and liberties and morals back in line with reality…

Russia is proof that you can go a long ways in the right direction in a short amount of time. You really need to remember that it was not that long ago, they (Russia) slammed the bottom of the barrel…

I gotta go! I have lots to do around the village place, that many say I do not have or go to and we need to run into the big village to pick up some supplies. We were given a huge carp to eat, by the neighbor. I showed Sveta how to clean a Carp and today we are going to grill it in our BBQ area…

Yummy…

Kyle Keeton
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It really became clearer today after doing some more research on things, while sipping that cup of coffee this morning…

The USA is in the beginning swirls of the great toilet, as it flushes and soon we will see the remains of the Soviet Union at the bottom of the sewer…

Financially America is so out of whack in monetary issues, that we are not even able to fully comprehend the total devastating distorted picture that we are in. The situation is so beyond comprehension, that numbers of debt are not even possible to associate with in real life…

You see I do not care what anyone says and what anyone thinks they know! It is simple math and in black and white for all to see and for all to try to comprehend…

We are broke and in fact we are flat busted broke. In fact there is not enough monopoly money in the world to even attempt to cover the dept of America…

If an individual ran his or her life and finances like the government does, they would be in prison for the rest of their life. You see we have laws against the fraud that or government does and you or I would sail “up the river” if we tried it…

For that alone, I see how wrong our government has become and I do not need fancy graphs and fancy data and fancy experts to tell me that…

We are simply, “In debt up to our eye balls…”

Just ask a Soviet, when the toilet stops it swirling and you settle at the bottom, things get pretty rough. Sveta will tell you in a heart beat about rough, as the Soviet Union died…

Looks like America lost her roots! The basics of the beginning of a great and wonderful country, have been lost and what we have left is a greedy, debt ridden, materialistic, welfare induced, immoral and non-caring entity that wants to rule the world…

Kyle Keeton
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Sveta and I made it to the village safe and sound. I had my doubts as per the amazingly really terrible drivers in Russia, but I have always driven defensively and it really gives us a fighting chance…

Sveta and I bought a dash cam recorder. We decided that it is time to record the events that unfold in front of us as we drive the roads of Russia. We are going to try to capture even the villages that we travel through…

I am always stunned by how beautiful the village is and how it takes me back to my younger years and the farm. The air is clean and world is just perfect. last night I was able to see the whole Milky Way in all her glory and you forget how magnificent it is, when the lights of a city block it all out…

So everyone have a good week and I am going to take a ton of pictures. We have lots to do here and it looks like we need to run into the big village today and get a few supplies…

Sveta and Kyle
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Many of those who read British press get a wrong impression that Pussy Riot band members were wrongfully detained and convicted for being against President Vladimir Putin. Regrettably, the majority of newspaper articles use wrong categories in reporting on this case. British media presents the topic under the banner of the freedom of speech and self-expression. In Russia, however, this matter is discussed as to whether there is a punishment for those who burst into the place of worship insulting the religious feelings of a considerable part of Russian citizens and debauch there.

According to a British journalist Simon Jenkins http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/aug/21/west-hypocrisy-pussy-riot, who cites a Russian poll, only 5% of respondents do not think that the band deserves to be punished, while 65% believe that the band members must be jailed and 29% wish they were subject to community service. These data should not come as a surprise, for Russia is a country of 143 million people, 75% of whom identify themselves with the Orthodox Christianity. Russian Muslims, by the way, have not sympathised with Pussy Riot’s performance as well.

One will recall the outrage started by the Muhammad cartoons published in one of Danish newspapers. They were published not without a reason and were aimed at stirring anti-Islamic sentiment in the Western society at the time of the so-called “war on terror”. What was its result? Growth of xenophobic and extremist manifestations, which, by the way, might well be posing a threat to the European democracy itself, as for example is the case of Anders Breivik. This act by Pussy Riot is considered as a similar provocation against religion.

Let us recall that many countries’ laws provide punishment for the insult of feelings of other citizens. Pussy Riot’s bravado is nothing new. In the recent past, such “performances” took place in European countries not without subsequent lawsuits. Just recently the Catholic Church of Germany has been reported to accuse followers of the Russian punk-band of disorderly behaviour at a religious service in Cologne. Under the German law, they might face a real prison sentence.

No one would dare to dispute decisions of court in Western countries. Russia’s judicial system is an independent branch too. The verdict to those who performed the “punk-prayer” in the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour was passed by court after a thorough consideration of all facts of the case in full compliance with the Russian law. It is very easy to give outsiders’ advice without knowing the details and even without trying to fully comprehend the matter. We doubt that the court, for example here in Great Britain, would take into consideration advice of those who, in effect, try to influence the course of justice.

An American lawyer Oliver Wendell Holmes once said: “Your liberty to swing your fist ends just where my nose begins”. We all remember how the Taliban destroyed Buddha statues in Afghanistan. The world was shocked and appalled. Let us recall the desecration of Muslim tombs in Northern Mali. Perhaps, it is too early to draw the line in the debate on the limits of self-expression. So this case is not about politics, played by the rules, but about insulting the religious feelings of fellow citizens which goes far beyond what any democracy allows, beyond civilized behavior pure and simple.

This information was taken from the official website of the Embassy of the Russian Federation to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Published on August 24, 2012.

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AvtoVAZ has released the first electric car, built on universal Lada Kalina. Its maximum speed is 140 km/hour, range – up to 170 km on a single charge. Acceleration to 100 km takes about 12 seconds…

Batteries for the new car will be produce in a new plant, which is currently being built near Novosibirsk, Russia. Until the plant is done the batteries will be coming from China…

Approximate price of a future production model will be about 550 000 – 700 000 rubles. ($17,280 to $21,993 )

Source: http://www.novgorodauto.ru/news/automir/full/18002/

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While many Russians are not huge believers in God, they do have a huge connection to their church and in Russia, church is The Orthodoxy…

You won’t find a Russian car without her icons and you will find that many Russians carries a icon in pocket. I myself have leaned toward Orthodoxy and have the icons in our car and I carry several icons in my wallet/bag. I guess you could say that I don’t believe in messing with what works…

So what I am going to talk about has to do with the Russian Orthodox Church…

It started as a rumor and has now become literally a fact and after doing days of studying, it has been shown to me that several NGO’s have been behind the shenanigans called Pussy Riot and these NGO’s are American sponsored. To the tune of millions of dollars and that money has been spent to cause issues, because Russia refuses to play Americas little Syria game…

It is called smoke screening and since the Middle East is starting to become a sore spot with Americans, Russia has fallen back into the bad guy limelight. Western Main Stream Media is working overtime and you would have thought when it came to the Pussy Riot situation, that Pussy Riot was sweet little god blessed angles and Putin personally crucified them himself. All in the name of the Devil himself as his sidekick…

Now Russia is responding and the response is what I would expect Russians to do if someone keeps messing with their country…

Acts of sponsored vandalism is being propagated and churches are being vandalized, such as in the Pussy Riot issue. This vandalism’s financing has been traced back to certain NGO’s, the same NGO’s that are being watched closely by the government of Russia. All American sponsored…

Russians are taking it upon themselves to protect their churches and that is just right. Their church is not Catholic, not Baptist, not Methodist and not one of the hundred others. In Russia, with the exception of a few stragglers, Russian Orthodox rules and that is that…

Activist groups are now forming to protect the churches and they say they will work in conjunction with the law. They are tired of blasphemy, or seeing individuals behaving aggressively toward priests and the church as a whole…

It is through the arresting of several individuals that the connections are being associated with the NGO’s and church related issues. Pussy Riot was just the icing on the cake and all the stuff that Pussy Riot did up to the point of the famous act of stupidity, is fresh in everyone’s minds in Russia…

Church in Russia is kinda like the Uncle in the family, you know the Uncle that everyone likes but does not worry about! Well that is until someone messes with him and then true to family ties, everyone comes out of the woodwork and protects him…

I can promise you that it has gone from rumor to fact now and the result is a Russia that is very very tired of external interference in everyday Russian affairs. The more external interference happens, the more that the Russia people will bind together…

I hate to tell America this, but that is the opposite of what they are trying to achomplish…

Russian Orthodoxy is fine for a Russian to complain about, but heaven forbid as the NGO’s playing games are finding out…

Kyle Keeton
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What a wonderful video!

This is the unique story of Gennady-Nikmamat, a former Soviet soldier who was captured by the Mujahideen during the Soviet war in Afghanistan. He was presumed a traitor, which carried a criminal penalty if he ever returned to his homeland. Thus he had no choice but to stay in Afghanistan and adopt a Muslim way of life…

Gennady-Nikmamat married an Afghan woman, had four kids with her and has lived a full life, but the thought of returning home one day never abandoned him. After finally coming back to Ukraine to see his relatives and visit his parents’ graves for the first time, he still can’t decide for himself whether it was better that he survive or if he should have ended up just another unknown soldier lost in the turmoil of war…

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Djerba, Tunisia – A large island, approximately 20 by 20 kilometers, Djerba lies just off the northeastern coast of Africa, in southeastern Tunisia, near the Libyan border…

Sveta just paid the bill and we have tied up a spot on the 30th of September, 2012 to Djerba. It is a twice a month flight that leaves out of Moscow for Russians. Now while Djerba is predominately a French holiday travel spot. We decided to try it out, as no visa is needed for either of us…

This is a link to a site that gives information about our hotel…

http://www.hotelscombined.com/Hotel/Sun_Club_Hotel_Djerba.htm

We found some very very good deals that are all inclusive, with air tickets and since it was a cheap as Turkey to go there! Well why not? Fun in the sun and there is lots to see of a very diverse and old culture…

Next on my thoughts this morning is that Sveta and I are leaving Saturday to go for one or two weeks to the village. Time for the last village trip as Winter is knocking on the door and in Russia if you blink several times, the Winter is looking at you again…

So while we will be messing around some with the sites, we will not be too worried about posting. We are going to the Village to enjoy life… 🙂

Kyle and Sveta
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