To simply summarize; The US is inflicting pain and suffering on people of Venezuela in order to force it’s government to hand over it’s oil fields…
It is terrorism by any other name…
WtR
The China-Russia “Joint Sea-2019” military exercise Tuesday held contests between the two countries’ naval marine contingents.
Contestants on both sides took part in competitions including riflery, sniping and steeplechase.
Chen Weidong, vice chief of staff of the Chinese Navy’s marines forces, said the contests provided opportunities for mutual learning and exchanges between the two sides, noting that the events also enhanced friendship.
The “Joint Sea-2019” exercise runs from April 29 to May 4 and focuses on joint sea defense.
Zhang Junshe, a researcher with the Naval Research Academy under the Chinese Navy, said the joint exercise showed the high-level strategic mutual trust between the two countries’ militaries, as both sides have sent some of their main vessels in service to the drill, and shared some performance information about their vessels and equipment in the drill.
The capabilities of the two countries’ militaries to carry out joint operations have been continuously improving and the two navies are also injecting positive energy to world peace and regional stability, Zhang said.Zhang noted the defensive nature of the drill, which does not target any third party. He said the drill includes basic combat techniques in defensive operations at sea as well as actions to jointly respond to non-traditional threats such as maritime search and rescue, fighting piracy and maintaining the safety of marine traffic routes.
The China-Russia “Joint Sea-2019” military exercise Tuesday held contests between the two countries’ naval marine contingents.Source: China-Russia joint exercise holds marines contests – People’s Daily Online
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Vladimir Putin attended the second Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation
Source: Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation • President of Russia
Belt and Road Forum
Sadly the western media hardly took notice of this event, as they do with anything that does not have “USA stamp of approval to post” attached to it…
This is the future and it is happening even if you do not like it…
So get out of the sandbox that you are bullying everyone at and join the future…
WtR
I gave you the two most common spellings for our city near Moscow. I have seen some other ways to spell it, but this covers 90% of how you should attempt to spell in in English letters. (Russian: Королёв, IPA: [kərɐˈlʲɵf])
And it is raining and raining and raining…
We have been thinking about what to do in the Tiny Russian Village. We are so excited about getting Nikolai’s Home….yet it is very sad that Nikolai died. It is a perfect definition of sweet and sour…
Can you believe? 10 years in our flat and Nikolai’s Home is ours…
That, we do not know where to start. So it looks like May 18th, we will take off for the village and start doing what we have to start doing. This weekend we need to go downtown Moscow and pick up a radiator for Sammy the Volga. I have limped along a very bad radiator for years now. We have found a brand new radiator for Sammy at only 2000 rubles, in the box. Time to get it…
I have to build a set of shackles for the rear springs on Sammy, I have to install a radiator, we have to clean up the yards of two homes, we have to start fencing with new fence posts on Sveta’s mothers place first and we have to move all of my stuff from one home to the other…
Nikolai’s Home is just across the road from Sveta’s mom’s place. We have inherited (lots of) yellow plums and purple plum trees. So we have pears and apples in one home and lots of plums in the other. Sveta said, “We will learn to preserve plums for the winter!”
That is a good girl and I will not tell her that I know how to do such things. We will learn together…
Vova called and is kinda unhappy that I am not in the Tiny Russian Village yet. He misses me…
So village time is coming. Yet, I have been very busy at home in Korolyov. I rehabbed the balcony…
Was nasty dirty and not usable these last few years. It is exposed to the outside and I was lazy…
Rehabbed the bathrooms as I call them, a toilet room and a tub room…
Left door is toilet and right is tub/sink…
Sveta thinks I am a hero and who am I to argue with my sweetie!
This is the Tiny Russian Village called Kammuna to the locals, Sunrise to freedom for me and Zarya Svobody for the rest… (Zarya; lit. Red Sky Glow, Aurora, Sunrise and Svobody ( in Cyrillic: свобода), or svoboda means freedom ) – Thus, Sunrise to Freedom…
We are ready to see the Tiny Russian Village…
WtR
The May Holidays have started…
The first day is, “Spring and Labor Day”…
Therefore, Svetochka is sleeping in and as always I am up regardless. Four O’clock a.m. and I was wide awake. Blood sugar was 4.2 and my body said to get up and deal with it. Sveta mumbled, “It is early!” and then, “zzzzzzzzzzzz…”
We stay away from traveling during the may Holidays. Crazy people, wild parties in the villages and dachas and Moscow is empty…
Makes for a good times in Moscow…
But, when over….Sveta and I will be in the Tiny Russian Village….lots of work to do…
Have a good holiday…
WtR
Seriously we moved in around July of 2009…
Speaking of a place to live…
Nikolai’s Home is officially Svetochka’s and mine now….Sveta’s other Tiny Russian Village home belongs to her mother, but this home is a Bear Home!
Nikolai’s Home: Our new Tiny Russian Village Home…
The home is ours, but we have to now get the land surveyed and titled. But the hard part is done….it took over a year to get the home transferred to new owners. That is Russia for you…
RIP Nikolai, I will take care of your home as long as I am able…
WtR
Nikolai and Larissa left today / Avto Magazine is done for the year and Coffee is so good…