Windows to Russia

I have desired a different diet drink in Russia. Ten years I have desired something other than a diet cola…

Well here it is, “Diet Dr. Pepper!”

I see lots of cars running around Moscow with Putin on them. Interesting and this car is sitting outside in our parking lot. I also see lots of T-Shirts, coats and hats with Putin on them. Kinda a craze right now…

Putin has real support in Russia, not like the marginal support that most western leaders get. I have thought about this happening and realize that western leaders for the most part do not understand the concept that the people are actually behind someone and likes their leader…

Maybe it is time for western leaders to change how they lead?

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Yesterday I got sick. 38.8 temperature and Sveta stayed home and tried to make me well? I feel much better today and Boza and I have walked twice. Sveta walked Boza yesterday and that made a big difference for me…

Today I will walk to the store and get chicken necks to cook for Boza. They are dirt cheap and he loves them. I like them also and they make a great soup. Boza eats the necks, I eat the broth. Win Win for all…

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Coffee is cheap now. As is the price of most foods here in Russia. Prices are dropping and it is starting to show on the total price as you buy stuff. What a blessing. It never was that bad, but anytime prices drop, it is a good thing for us average people…

I will go to our dollar store equivalent today. They have really good coffee at 50 rubles per 100g. That my friend is a good deal and I will stock up. Coffee is one of those things that the price can rocket at any second. Happens all over the world and when the price is right, “Get It!”

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White Bread 15 rubles a loaf…
Eggs for 10 in carton – 39 rubles…
Milk 29 rubles a liter…
Whole Chickens off a truck- 68 rubles a kilo…
Flour Tortillas – 4 pack – 25 rubles…
50 Black Tea bags in a box – 25 rubles…

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Lets put it this way; 100 rubles ($1.60) will buy you many meals…

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Pregnant women, multiple children families and happy families…

Everywhere is a mother pushing a stroller and the playgrounds are full of little monkeys kids. It has become a explosion to be exact. The population is growing in Russia and from what I am seeing, Russians have taking the declining population issue seriously and working day and night to reverse the trend… 😉

Interesting to see this happening…

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There is a quandary that I keep coming back to!

Out of one side of Americas face, they spout, Russia – “doesn’t make anything”

Then out of the other side of the face or is it “out the ass?” They say, “Russia has released the first image of its new nuclear missile, a weapon so powerful that it could wipe out nearly all of the United Kingdom or France.”

My quandary is!

If Russia does not make anything? Then where does all the food in the stores come from, the weapons of mass destruction come from, the advanced defensive weapons, the equipment, tools and you name it? Russia makes stuff. Damn good stuff and other than the tiny exception of not finding peppermint candy in Russia. I see most everything else… 😉

Okay! I admit China makes a bunch of stuff, but, much and actually most tech is from Russia in the first place. China has been given massive amounts of defensive tech to develop defensive weapons with and all in conjunction with Russia. Just like India has done the same…

But, if Russia does not make anything?

What the hell is everyone so worried about Russia for?

They do not make a damn thing! They are just a gas station, They are poor, They are devastated, They are dictated to death and even North Korea has a better life than Russians! ~SARC~

Believe you me! Russia makes things and they make extremely high quality things, At a reasonable price and much less waste than we are use to in America. The big thing Russia makes?

Defense Weaponry to counter the Western Empire!

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Yes and one last thing…

Life is actually very good here in Russia. I cover Russia from the Tiny Russian Village to the Huge City of Moscow and I find life good, safe, happy and full of friendly intelligent people…

WtR

Having worked as an upper management for McDonald’s many years ago, I rarely go into one to eat. But, today I decided to walk to the mall and sit for awhile and eat two cheeseburgers and a small diet coke…

I needed to get a few groceries and before getting them, I set and watched Russians living life at McDonald’s. I am telling you this because, like all the other countries we Americans allow to be destroyed by our government and its cronies, Russia is a very advanced country…

Before we tried to change Syrian, Libyan, Afghanistan and Iraq heads of states. These countries were all very advanced and very pleasant to live in. Say what you want, but democracy has destroyed these countries and their living standards are a tenth of what they had before we brought love and bombs to them…

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I set and watched the electronic kiosks at work. Russians love these devices and other than me, everyone was using a debit card and keeping the kiosks busy. It was a social event to these people. They talked and joked with each other, the young couples discussed what they would buy together and mothers had to pick their kids up and allow them to punch their food into the kiosk…

The two burgers I got could have been from America. The diet coke I sipped on, could have been from America. The music playing softly in the ceiling speakers, was from America and all in English. The families, kids, moms and elderly all looked like Americans…

The teenager who was suppose to be wiping tables, was playing on his cellphone. Just like America…

The 70 to 80 year old elderly couple, cut their hamburger in half, divided the french fries and shared a soda, just like in America. Pinching pennies, just like in America…

The kids had a birthday party going on in the party play room. Yes, just like in America. In fact, at this stage of my life here. I just had to close my eyes and it was America. That is how much the normal people are to us Americans…

Just wanting to live a life and not worry about who will drop a damn bomb on their heads. Is the biggest difference in Russian and Americans…

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I listened to a table nearby and it was full of about twenty years old. Five of them and they were talking about America…

Obama had turned out to be a fake (and his Nobel Prize is a joke in their eyes) and they all know Hillary’s track record as Secretary of the State of America. Trump is well known also and is known for being a ruthless oligarch. Russians know about them well…

Then the conversation turned to Putin and one of the five disliked Putin. After a heated argument and the one hater of Putin, spouting CNN, BBC and several other western media sources. The others shut him down and laughed at his choice of information. He got up and said a few choice words, as a Babushka scolded him for those words, and he left. The other four watched him leave and then went back to talking about Russia and Putin…

It all sounded just like America to me…

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I walked home with my groceries and stuff. Two moms with their doggies had a dog fight going. Another doggy came from across the park, as his owner yelled at him and joined the fun. Everyone got tangled up in the leashes! And guess what?

Just like America…

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I want you to realize that 100% of the countries that our America has destroyed and tried to reshape, is a failure. It is a failure in all but the profits made for the few…

Russia does not need to be changed in anyway. Russia is flawed, but flawed in a better way than how we are flawed. Russia had its ass handed to it years ago and has come back from the brink of death…

Putin is good for the people and the people need his kind of strength. The issue that arises is that we Americans need a person like Putin and we have not had that person for a long time in America in the White House…

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America needs to become like Russia, instead of Russia becoming like America. America needs to wield a big stick, but use it only when necessary. It seems that our big stick has become a way of life and that is where I hope Russia never becomes America…

Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment. – Mahatma Gandhi

Amen to that…

WtR

With all we now have gathered about the US government including Obama’s lackey brigade, the Clinton’s and all their sack men and ladies and water bearers of the propaganda in the journalistic world and all the criminal movement and untruths and debasement available to see first hand, even with e-mails as proof. The flagrant in your face robbery and nonchalance for Security, of the all deceiving democracy within the crusade to elect Hillary and so on…

You would think that people would see for themselves….You would think that when black is black and white is white, that nothing could be questioned and nothing is left to debate…

However 50% of Americans are as yet ready to vote in favor of Hillary Clinton….that lets me know that half of America has mental or enthusiastic issues.

This is not the typical conduct of a refined, educated and balanced society.

It is the activity of a mentally programmed crowd who think there is something in it for them to gain by her election…

The same goes for Trump, but in reality something is amiss there in that situation. The Republicans and Democrats are working day and night to convince us that Trump is as pathetic as the mainstay meal of the old days called SOS (Shit on Shingle!)

Either way you gather the data about these two future presidential wannabes just does not add up. Trump has at least shown a desire to change, but he gives no hope to the masses of freebie lovers and that scares them…

In my opinion Trump is scary in that he while sounds perfect for a better future; is still a multi-billionaire and is only in this life to make money. Selling his soul for money is still his foray and or is his forte. He makes a living at doing what makes Trump money, just as Hillary does…

Therefore, as a vote for president of the US is set between two people. One a known political cheat and liar and the the other a well known power broker cheat and liar, Trump wins by default. He is the unknown and politically could mean change for the better?

Politically we have already destroyed our country and yet 50% of the people still want to keep that guaranteed way for destruction going. The other 50% want to try a new way to destroy ourselves. That 50% is more correct than the other 50%. We have to embrace the new, especially when the old is fungicide and rotten…

The land of the free has become lacking in intellects!

This has been accomplished through degraded schooling, political correctness, handouts financial and or material to the masses, constant propaganda about how great we are and fear/scare tactics being used on a daily basis…

The same tactics used time and time again to keep the masses in check and certain desired people in power. History repeats itself, time and time again…

The fact that both presidential hopefuls are who they are; excludes them from office…

We as a people of a country as great as America and who use to be looked upon as a leader of the free world. Deserve a real president. We deserve someone who is no affiliated with politics, money and or greed. It is a shame that a person who works the land and lives week to week struggling to survive, has knowledge of the Good Book, budgets the little he has, raises a family to work by his side, believes in morals, remembers the horrors of the war he was in, cares who his kids date, cares where his kids are at night and life/nature is of the utmost importance….Is not able to be our president…

I am tired of the Bush’s, the Clinton’s, the Kennedy’s, the the the the and more more more, so called royalty of America. From Hollywood to Washington DC…

We need someone we can relate with and or to in the White House!

That there is the issue! We are a hodgepodge of different races, mentalities, genders, ages and everyone has had Burger King’s, “Have it your way!”, drilled into their heads until they think that is what life is about…

Not the typical conduct of a refined, educated and balanced society!

I guess I want to much?

WtR

Windows to Russia was getting Google errors about mobile issues. Google has decided to weigh mobile much higher than Desktop and they are pushing to get people to make mobile friendly sites…

The last few days I have been revamping windowstorussis.com and making it look one way with a desktop and another way with a mobile device. This includes laptops, tablets and phones…

I finally got Google to okay the site and they have given me good marks on all aspects….See below image…

Therefore, I have been able to get the best of both worlds. I have my very favorite desktop look and then for the mobile, I have a very friendly mobile adaptive look. They do not look anything alike and the mobile is the nearest to the old template. The desktop look is my favorite, but it can not be turned into a mobile, no matter what I try to do…

I was actually forced to make these changes, Google sent me a email and said that they would degrade this site if I did not follow their rules. Thus, I followed their rules and they are happy…

I have one last thing to solve and then the site will be at its best. I have to get images under control. That means; I have to compress and change the way images are presented to whatever device is seeing the page. Google says, “Optimize your images to minimize their size and thus reduce their load time. They remove non-visible image information and apply high-efficiency compression techniques. This can result in a data saving of 50% or more.”

I guess that is next? Oh Well!

So we have this now…

Hope it works okay for you? IF not leave a comment and I will try to blend the needs of readers with the desires and demands of Google!

WtR

Russia’s Big Guns Go to War

Friday, October 21, 2016 – 12:03 By Petri Krohn, editorial article

The two largest ships of the Russian Navy, the nuclear powered  battlecruiser Pyotr Velikiy (099) and the aircraft carrier ‘Admiral Kuznetsov’ (063) are now in the English Channel, steaming toward the eastern Mediterranean. Their mission is to establish a 1,500 km naval exclusion zone outside the coast of Syria and to sink any US carrier strike group willing to challenge them.

NATO says the ‘Kuznetsov’ is on a mission to “bomb rebels in Aleppo”. This is true only as much that this is a combat mission; not a summer cruise, a training exercise, or just showing the flag. In fact, this is the first time any Russian or Soviet aircraft carrier has seen combat.

Quote: “Russian warships off the coast of Norway are carrying fighter bombers that will likely reinforce a final assault on the besieged Syrian city of Aleppo in two weeks, a senior NATO diplomat said on Wednesday citing Western intelligence,” reports Reuters.

The Russian battle group, once it is assembled in the Mediterranean may be the largest European naval formation to see combat since the Battle of Jutland in 1916. Wikipedia

Most likely the battle group will include several nuclear attack submarines, of the ‘Akula’ and ‘Oscar’ classes. Wikipedia

Their mission is to stop the planned American war on Syria and to prevent the US Navy from launching airstrikes or  Tomahawk cruise missiles at the Syrian Arab Army or the Russian forces in Syria. This is a repetition of the situation in August 2013, this time with an even larger Russian naval presence.

Soviet capital ships were designed to sink American aircraft carriers. Their main weapon is the P-700 Granit supersonic anti-ship missiles carried on the ‘Pyotr Velikiy’, the ‘Kuznetsov’, and the ‘Oscar’ class submarines. Wikipedia

If the Russian force is threatened, they will be supplemented by ‘Tupolev Tu-22M’ strategic bombers carrying ‘Kh-15 and Kh-32’ anti-ship missiles with operational ranges of 300 km and 1,000 km respectively. The bombers may be deployed to Syria or the Hamadan Air Base in Iran.

The US is now openly preparing for war against Syria. Their previous attempt in August 2013 failed because of the Russian naval presence outside Syria. The events were mostly kept secret from the Western audience.

The standoff was first described by Israel Shamir in October 2013: “The most dramatic event of September 2013 was the high-noon stand-off near the Levantine shore, with five US destroyers pointing their Tomahawks towards Damascus and facing them – the Russian flotilla of eleven ships led by the carrier-killer Missile Cruiser Moskva and supported by Chinese warships.

Apparently, two missiles were launched towards the Syrian coast, and both failed to reach their destination.”
The Cape of Good Hope.

A longer description was published by Australian voice in 2015: “So why didn’t the US and France attack Syria? It seems obvious that the Russians and Chinese simply explained that an attack on Syria by US and French forces would be met by a Russian/Chinese attack on US and French warships. Obama wisely decided not to start WW III in September 2013.” Can Russia Block Regime Change In Syria Again? Link to source.

In my own comments from 2013 I tried to understand the mission of the Russian fleet. This is what I believed Putin’s orders to the fleet were:

1) To sink any NATO ship involved in illegal aggression against Syria.
2) You have the authority to use tactical nuclear weapons in self-defense.

I am sure NATO admirals understood the situation the same way.  I am not sure of the American leadership in Washington.

Petri Krohn, editorial article

DONi News Agency

It is what it is and the issue is; The western press is ignoring the truth! But that is normal!

WtR

NASA wrote a nice “ignorant” post!
Do you see what is wrong?
Here is some help to read the wrong spot…

“NASA astronaut Shane Kimbrough and two Russians launched to the International Space Station” Read that quote…

Still see nothing wrong?

Okay! I give up!

We literally ignore the fact that two Russians are on board with just one American. We name the American and yet we somehow lost the names for the two Russians. Just two Russians, not Russian Astronauts, not a name for them and we simply state, “two Russians” …..

https://www.instagram.com/p/BLwcT3Zl2yg/

Respect please for the two Russians who are nameless in NASA eyes…

Thanks to Spaceflight Now…

With commander Sergey Ryzhikov monitoring an automated approach, flanked on the left by flight engineer Andrey Borisenko and on the right by NASA astronaut Shane Kimbrough, the Soyuz MS-02/48S spacecraft docked at the station’s upper Poisk module at 5:52 a.m EDT (GMT-4) as the two spacecraft passed 250 miles above southern Russia.

And yes the Russian is in charge! Jeepers weepers…

WtR

PS: If it has to do with Russia? I am most likely reading about it, doing it and or living it! NASA bad!

This is one of the best fish pies ever created. It’s perfect for that party as it can all be made well in advance, even several days. It is just as good and preferred chilled.

Prep and chill all ingredients thoroughly, first. Then all you have to do is cover it with a wrap and leave in the cooler until needed, then pop it into the oven just before you serve to family and or friends….

Serve it cut in slices, with a large bowl of mixed-leaf salad tossed in a lemon flavored dressing. Or you can simply melt some butter with an equal quantity of lemon juice and serve it with that spread on top…

Good for the whole family or as a party dish…

Gather Ingredients!

Cook – 500g/1lb 2oz salmon fillet, skinned and or not
Cook – 175g/6oz Brown rice
Boil three eggs hard in shell
75g/2¾oz butter, plus extra for greasing
2 onions, roughly chopped (leave raw)
2 garlic cloves, crushed (leave raw)
1 small fresh red chili, finely chopped (leave raw and or maybe not! HOT!)
200g/7oz button mushrooms, sliced and cooked
½ large lemon, zest and juice only (get those seeds out of there)
2 tbsp chopped fresh parsley (leave raw)
1 tbsp chopped fresh chives (leave raw)
salt and freshly ground black pepper to taste

some sheets of frozen pastry

Lets make!

I take all ingredients and mix together in a big bowl. Well except the pastry and enough butter to grease the sheet pan with and also baste the top with as it cooks…

That means eggs chopped up, cooked fish chopped up, cooked rice, cooked mushrooms, chili pepper, cloves, onions, some butter, some lemon, garlic, salt pepper, chives, parsley and whatever else you want in it. Mix it all together. I mix it well and do not care if you can see any chunks of fish. Just make a big thick paste out of it…

Once all ingredients are mixed, set aside in refrigerator covered until needed. That is why the fish and some things are cooked first. The dish is designed to be made in stages, kinda a Russian thing I guess…

I prefer to make and cook all the same day. Some will make it all and even let it sit ready to bake for several days. So my recipe varies from the Russian way and it is because I do not like to let fish sit around waiting… Cooked or not!

For the sauce to mix with insides!

100g yogurt non flavored
1 small bunch fresh parsley, chopped
1 tbsp chopped fresh chives
½ large lemon, juice only

Mix sauce ingredients together early in the morning on the day you will bake it and allow to sit in refrigerator once mixed with the other stuff several hours. Allows everything to thicken and set up somewhat…

Take first bowl of fish and stuff you mixed! Add second bowl into first (I said big bowl earlier,) of sauce and stir thoroughly. Makes a thick pasty substance. Some leave the fish out and stick the fish in as a whole piece, before baking… What ever!

I grease a sheet pan and or use a oven wax paper. Lay a sheet of pastry from the pack on it and if you need two sheets use them side by side, Use your imagination for this. I let the sheets thaw slightly and squeeze them together at the seam. You need a big enough sheet to plop all the mixed stuff on and after mounding it up, allow you to cover the whole thing with another sheet of pastry. Puff pastry works great for this..

You are doing something like this below…

Yummy

Once all stuff is inside a big pastry shell and it is laying on a sheet pan ready. Bake the thing at 425°F(220°C) for about 25 minutes, brushing with butter, egg whites and or whatever it is you do. Many times I brush with nothing and it still browns okay! Since main stuff is cooked, all you really are doing is cooking the pastry and no need to over do it…

I like to cut slits in the top, helps steam escape. Some like to make pretty designs and such, but I just like to eat it! 🙂

I say eat it warm, not blistering hot, but eating it cold is only done by me at friends houses. I like it, but fish to me is a warm food! Just my upbringing…

This is a do it as you please type dish. It really is designed to use up whatever you have left over. Since Russians always have lots of salmon hanging around, it is a natural for this dish. You can use any fish, but real fatty fish? Drain well, no need for tons of fat… Just toss in what ever spices you like and bake it. You will like it and as you eat it, realize that Russians love pies like this…

Coulibiac Recipe and so Yummy!

WtR

I suggest USA do Live Stream with Multiple Servers as Russia did with her presidential election, internally and externally broadcasting for the whole world to watch the voting process and the counting process, from the freest country in the world, but, that may Jeopardize that United States Election Transparency…. Fat chance of that happening…

Russia did and they did it from sea to shining sea!

Oh! You forgot about that fact? Russia let everyone in the world watch the elections, real time and then we could watch them count the vote…

WtR

“Gold is the money of kings; silver is the money of gentlemen; barter is the money of peasants; and debt is the money of slaves” – Norm Franz…

Do not expect high degree of perception levels, from a nation of self-induced slaves. – Kyle…

WtR

Today I was walking Boza and it was around noon.

All of a sudden the air was full of that long running, wailing, lower and higher at a top decibel siren associated with air raids…

The world got very quiet and mothers hurried their children in strollers to their homes, babushkas hobbled home and it seemed that even the cars stopped moving. Everything got quiet and even the crows stared around at what was filling the air…

A babushka hobbled near us (Boza and I) and she was crying tears from her eyes. She was going on in a panic and was actually going in a circle. She kept looking at the sky and I put her at almost 90 years old…

My heart sank and a fear for these people welled up in me…

I went to her and offered her my arm. She looked at me, little tears running down her face, she then looked at the sky and said, “воздушный налет! (air raid!)”

I shook my head no and pointed at the buildings and said, “домой! (Home!)”

Then she pointed at the nearest building and the second door to the right. I walked her slowly to her door, with her holding on to my arm with a death grip. She had the strength of fear in her and Boza and I left her after she went in, muttering thank you…

She had said many things to me as we walked arm in arm and she kept looking at the sky. She was shaking as if she was frozen to the point of death and to be truthful, I am sure she has lived through what an air raid truly is about. I have…

I wonder what she would think if she knew I was an American, one of the same people that want her dead? At least in their eyes we do! That makes me sad and it makes me angry at my government for doing such things. I am not stupid and it is clear as day who is instigating what is happening in the world right now…

For over a half an hour the sirens wailed.

Boza and I walked in an empty world and to be honest, I was not sure if we would still be on earth, for if it was not a test and I have never heard a test yet in Moscow. Ten years I have lived here in Russia, and this is the first one I have heard…

Boza and I walked and I kept working with him, for he is very blind and when the sirens stopped, we went home. Before we got home, the world started to move again. Mothers pushing strollers, cars seemed to move again and the local grocery store opened their gate to receive food items…

It had all come to a stop…

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Now I am writing about what happened.

It is important, very important, for it tells me about our mortality and what could be coming when these sirens go off. It could have been today that we all die and I realized that Boza and I would walk into the new sunset that would be produced…

My distaste for what America is doing has just grown. I will send an e-mail to my son today. I will tell him to get ready and I do hope he has what it takes to get ready for what might happen if America does not back off…

I don’t think that we are any farther away from a minute away on the Doomsday Clock, even if the clock is saying three minutes till. It was last updated in January of 2015 and much has happened since then and it looks and feels to me as if we are just seconds away now…

Today I wish that Svetochka, her mother, Boza, my son and his family and her (Svetochka’s) son and family were all in the Tiny Russian Village with me. I wish I was there right now, but I have to figure out how to get Svetochka and entourage there with me. For I understand and have figured out the chances of us surviving there…

Moscow is a molten pool of radioactive liquid, if war breaks out, just like New York City will be. But the Tiny Russian Village is very far from everything, at least everything that will be bombed. If the wind is right, we will make it…

For some reason I want to live and see the new world, but if I can’t? I will watch the fireworks, for hiding under a million tons of rubble and molten rock, is not the answer for me. But if I am able, I want to see what becomes of us, if a Nuclear War breaks out…

Morbid curiosity? Maybe!

Today was very clear to me; Russians are getting ready for that last hurrah of a war and there are many old Russians that still have memories of the last war…

That is the difference between America and Russia. Russia does not think this is a game and Americans do not know what to think, for they are being umbrella covered and snookered…

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There is a lot of things in the world that we can play games with and get away with those games. But when one side (Russia) of those so called games is serious and the other (America) thinks they are being cool. Then the game player (America,) who is doing it for internal political, distractions and Geopolitical reasons, is playing with fire…

As any kid knows, the stove is hot to touch, but that kid usually had to learn the heard way…

Lets hope America is a little more grown up than that!

WtR