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 […]
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 […]
There is no moderate terrorist; they are just a terrorist. There is no bad terrorist; they are just a terrorists. There is no good terrorist; they are just a terrorist. There is not different levels of terrorists; they are all terrorists and no more or no less… This is my thinking’s today over a wonderful […]
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 […]
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 […]
Life Imitates Art: Mary Landrieu Calls Pavel Astakhov an ass; Then files bill to speed up international adoption I came across a good article and actually the only article that I have found that addresses the issue about what I read myself at RFE/RL. I had thought about an article on Windows to Russia and […]
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 […]
The BRICS cable from Vladivostock, Russia to Shantou, China to Chennai, India to Cape Town, South Africa to Fortaleza, Brazil, is being built and it’s, actually, in its final phase of implementation… BRICS Cable… a 34 000 km, 2 fibre pair, 12.8 Tbit/s capacity, fibre optic cable system Links Russia, China, India, South Africa, Brazil […]
Sveta loves borscht and so do I, but I love stews and most Russian soups are to thin and runny for me. So I take the Russian recipes and alter them to fit my taste and Sveta’s at the same time. I give her the taste she knows and loves and I give me, the […]
MOSCOW — RECENT events surrounding Syria have prompted me to speak directly to the American people and their political leaders. It is important to do so at a time of insufficient communication between our societies. Relations between us have passed through different stages. We stood against each other during the cold war. But we were […]