Windows to Russia

I like to listen or read parables and sometimes I feel that I need to tell parables myself. The Internet is a very strange place. You never know who will visit you and you never know if your story could help this person. Sometimes to find important information, a beautiful picture, or just to spend […]

Goodby MasterCard and Visa! Three years ago I talked about this happening and I also talked about the fact that America pleaded with Russia not to destroy the Visa and MasterCard system in Russia. Russia had a mind to set up its own system and it looks like in a few months this system will […]

Krypetsky Monastery is located about 23 km from Pskov, Russia. The monastery was originally all wood when it was built in around 1485.  Then in 1547 it was torn down and rebuilt as it stands today, all in stone. Very famous monks lived at this monastery: Basil, St. Nilus, Afanasy Ordin-Nashchokin and Evgeny Bolkhovitinov… Around 1918, the […]

It was almost ten years ago when, before the House International Relations Committee, I objected to the US Government funding NGOs to meddle in the internal affairs of Ukraine. At the time the “Orange Revolution” had forced a regime change in Ukraine with the help of millions of dollars from Washington. At that time I […]

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I am done being threatened with death, dismemberment and bodily harm. I am done being threatened with what will happen if I dare to step on the USA soil again. I am done with being threatened with what my government will do to me by drones and such. I am done and that means that […]

Events in and concerning Crimea have raised to fever pitch the cacophony in the West over Ukraine. For one observer, there are some fundamental questions that seem to apply from the very beginning of the crisis and which seem important in understanding the broader context. 1. Why did the U.S. and the West cry “unconstitutional […]

I was amazed at the western press and the news yesterday: euronews – The leader of an Islamist insurgency in the North Caucasus, Doku Umarov has been declared dead on the group’s website. Described as Russia’s most wanted man, Umarov is believed to have been responsible for several deadly bombings. It is not known how […]