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Sveta and I will get to the Tiny Russian Village soon and we will move all my stuff from Sveta’s mothers home to our new village home across the street. I also have a new radiator to install in Sammy the Volga and a clutch master cylinder. I also have drawn out and will build […]

How to take part in the action “Immortal Regiment” in Korolev, May 9, 2019 The action “Immortal regiment” was first held in Russia in 2007, today it is supported in many countries of the world. On Victory Day, citizens take to the streets and squares with portraits of their relatives who took part in the […]

Hello, Years ago we published a cartoon about Vinni Puh. (Russian version of Winnie the Pooh) During the past, we discussed how it’s difficult to translate Vinni Puh in English. We translated some expressions from the cartoon and now we tried to translate the Vinni Puh song. (not exact translation more transition of the mood […]

I am amazed at the people that do not understand that I live, walk, breath, ride bikes, drive and get irritated in everyday life in Russia. So many so called Russian journalists and so called Russian experts, have never rubbed shoulders daily with Russians. In fact many of them never leave their high rises and […]

MOSCOW, May 6 (Xinhua) — Russia’s Investigative Committee confirmed Monday that 41 people were killed after an SSJ-100 passenger plane en route to the northwestern Russian city of Murmansk caught fire before an emergency landing Sunday at the Sheremetyevo International Airport in Moscow. “41 people died,” Elena Markovskaya, representative of the committee’s Moscow Inter-regional Investigation […]

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, […]

 Vladimir Putin attended the second Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation Source: Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation • President of Russia 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 […]

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 […]

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, […]