The Vostochny Cosmodrome (Russian: Космодром Восточный Kosmodrom Vostochny “Eastern Spaceport”) is a Russian spaceport under construction on the 51st parallel north in the Amur Oblast, in the Russian Far East. When completed in 2018, it is intended to reduce Russia’s dependency on the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The first launch took place on April 28, […]
Did not make it to the Tiny Russian Village yet! Delays and more delays and so we went to a movie yesterday. A movie that is made in Russia, by Russians and for Russians. It was really good. Called, “Flight Crew (Russian: Экипаж, translate; Ekipazh)”…… “This is not a film about heroes, but of ordinary […]
I have been home in Korolev, Russia for about a month now. Today Sveta is home and we will go to Globus (like WalMart) and grab some end of the garden season stuff. They have great deals right now and I saw some dirt cheap (pardon the pun,) orange and crimson Tea Roses. We also […]
On April 26, 2016 it will be exactly 30 years since the Chernobyl nuclear disaster hit the Soviet Union (USSR). Just 970 years to go. Then maybe that Ghost Town will be inhabited again. Problem is, will mankind make it that long before we eradicate ourselves. Watch a soul moving video. Listen to the words […]
China is storing oil… And I mean storing oil. Not just enough for a buffer, but enough for a damn war. Russia has already done such a thing and has enough oil to fight a long war, but China has been steadily and surely stockpiling oil for years now and we looked at every reason […]
Tools stolen… My fault actually. We have a weak lock on the Volga and I got careless and did not bring in the tool boxes. I left them in the car and when you have millions upon millions of people walking around daily. Someone is a bad apple and they will do bad things. They […]
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Let me see… America is no longer the number one wheat exporter. Hmm….Seems Russia is the number one exporter of wheat now. How did that happen? I know and have talked about it… Cool… Obama went to Britain and Blackmailed them and talked down his nose and trashy to them and pissed their peasant asses […]
The Maidan Massacre in Ukraine: A Summary of Analysis, Evidence, and Findings Ivan Katchanovski, Ph.D. School of Political Studies & Department of Communication University of Ottawa Ottawa, ON K1N 6N5, Canada – ikatchan@uottawa.ca In The Return of the Cold War: Ukraine, the West and Russia. by J.L. Black and Michael Johns (Eds.), (pp. 220-224). Routledge, […]
I have not written for a long time about Visas to Russia. Ukraine has a visa center now. It seems to be a governmental organization and there is a building that has a whole bunch of offices that deal with visas to various countries all over the world. Germans have a spot to go, Americans […]
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