Windows to Russia

Sooner or later parts wear out, no matter how hard you try to keep it from happening. I had an original part that was stuck and I was not sure that I could get it removed from our Volga we call Sammy. Sammy was sick and I had been trying to solve her issues with […]

In the Russian Village it is only one way when it comes to men and women. The men are up very early and the women sleep as long as they possibly can. Sveta and I are the same way and when our women leave us alone, then we get up even earlier. Today as I […]

Han Ximin ximhan@126.com SHENZHEN officially signed a deal yesterday with Beijing Institute of Technology and Romonosov Moscow State University for the cooperative China-Russia University, which will be built at Universiade New Town in Longgang District. With the expertise of the two universities combined, the Shenzhen campus will cultivate talent required for cultural, educational and technological […]

This morning a new load of beams was delivered to the Ukrainians working on the bell tower. They have installed new beams in two complete floors of the bell tower and they are working on the third today. They have used all the bricks lying around and have rebuilt walls all over the place inside […]

Everyday somewhere between 40 to 50 times a day, a single biplane transverses the sky. It is different in color and style, but it is always a biplane. Now we are located on a jet flight path, but they are way up in the sky and these biplanes are sometimes just above our heads…

Boza and I again are bachelors and we are sad bachelors! Sveta left the Russian village last night back to the big city and bright lights. Moscow is just too big for me, but Sveta was born there and her son who is getting married on August 14th, 2014, is there and needs her to […]

I am not a good photographer and never will be. I have too much damage done to my system over the years by wars, fighting and illnesses. I shake too bad and reflexes are shot, but that never stops me from trying and I caught these images that came out pretty clear…

The heron was standing on a pole driven into the lake bed. He posed just long enough for Sveta to get a few shots of him as he was bathed in the last rays of the evening sun… He obliged and then flew away to what he considered safer territory. For we all know a […]

“Piss into the sea, you will find it in your salt!” said by a monk in Cambodia… I was told this in answer to a question I asked many years ago and the answer fits more so nowadays than then. Iraq is what I was thinking about this morning as I sipped a wonderful cup […]

Snowden does not get an asylum permit, he bypasses all that and gets temporary citizenship in Russia for three years. Then he can apply for permanent residence and become a Russian citizen. This is what I am doing for the long-term also and staying for life in Russia is the goal…