Category: Russia

Sveta makes a very good Cottage Cheese Pudding. It is a recipe that her mom taught her and Sveta likes to make it in the Village. It is really low sugar and high protein. I am not sure how authentic Russian it is, but I can tell you that a wonderful Russian woman makes it and that makes it very Russian to me… 🙂

So lets make some of Sveta’s Cottage Cheese Pudding:

Ingredients:

Half kilo of Tvorog / cottage cheese. (Well drained if using Western style.)

3 – eggs

3 tsp of sugar

3 tbs of instant oatmeal

A shot of milk to make more fluid or no milk if you have Western style cottage cheese with lots of liquid in it. (curds and whey)

3 tbs of Sour Cream only if a richness is desired? (50% or better)

Method:

Take a mixing bowl and combine all ingredients until smooth and creamy (Western cottage cheese will be lumpy). I use a wire whip for this…

Heat a skillet to medium heat and make sure the skillet is oiled or use Pam spray (Non stick pan is good for this pudding.)

Pour mixed ingredients ito hot oiled skillet and do not stir, mix or turn. Other words do not touch…

In about 10 minutes the pudding will be done. (As long as you did not put the temp. on too high of a setting it will not burn.)

It should be firm and a congealed mass, light color on top and dark brown on the bottom. Almost to the point that the bottom is burned. Some people turn the pudding like an omelet but we like ours done the way exclaimed above…

Serve hot right from the skillet…

Now you have a dessert that Sveta likes to make and we both love to eat…

Kyle Keeton
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PS: You may oven bake this if you so desire and also if Sveta and I burn this pudding, we just skim the top and leave the burnt bottom in the skillet. It is still yummy and so easy to make from basic ingredients…

That cup of chicory was good today and really it became two cups of chicory. While I was enjoying those cups of chicory I was doing some thinking’s…

Today I see a lot of noise being made by Russia about Syria. I see statements coming from the higher ups in the government saying that we will not have another Libya escapade. In fact I see lots of activity that points to a huge push against any trouble for Syria. I noticed that Russia wrote and presented a UN proposal about Syria and that is where it seems to have stopped at the UN. That Russian resolution was not what the West deems as a good resolution. I guess Russia learned that you better cross all t’s and dot all i’s with the West. Because otherwise you just out of luck, when the Western Empire starts interpreting a resolution from the UN…

The war drums are beating so loud over Syria that they are deafening at times and I am a little bit worried that the Western world wants to call what they see as a bluff by Russia and China. Or at least test those waters…

I do not think that is a bluff that America, France and Britain want to call. Because as I am seeing the situation. Russia is not bluffing because it is fact to Russia – “Hands off Syria is what Russia is saying.”  The West tried to test Russia once in the near past and that failed miserably. Georgia was knocked down like a fly with a fly swatter…

I still think that Russia failed Libya by not using a veto in the UN resolution about Libya, but I am curious how Syria is going to develop. I sense a much stronger pull to protect Syria and after what the West has done to Libya that pull is much stronger…

Do you realize that it was 3 weeks ago that the West declared Libya a done deal? Gaddafi is still dancing around the desert, civilians are dying daily by the NATO/Rebel hand, the missiles are still slamming cities and targets, a guerrilla war has been started and we still listen to the lies daily about Libya being a done deal…

We are knocking on the door of seven months in Libya and nothing but nothing has really been accomplished, well except destroying Libya! I do not call that an accomplishment…

I see tremendous feelings over the Libyan scandal in Russia. I see Medvedev having second thoughts about the Libyan situation and I see a Putin that has kept his mouth shut. As the Russian political power scale works. Medvedev who is president of Russia worries about foreign affairs and Putin who is Prime Minister is over the government of Russia. Medvedev made the decision about Libya and he has to live with that decision. I really do not think he will let the same thing happen to Syria…

Lets hope Syria gets under control soon, because I hear them Western war drums beating night and day and I really do not want to see WWIII start over Syria. Though I know a bunch of yahoos in this world that would love to see a war of the world again…

That is what worries me…

Kyle Keeton
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PS: You do realize that Libya has been nothing but a lie by the West from the beginning. I am sure you do realize that! 7 months and the count of civilian deaths by NATO and Rebels has been put at 6.000 to 60,000 according to who says what. We will never know the truth but is one too many I will tell you one fact. We (NATO) have killed more than Gaddafi ever did and if you consider the men who fought for him, we have killed many many more. I realized a long time ago that when you invade as we did against Libya that the men that die protecting their country are not evil. They are simple trying to stop a wrong against them done by a outside source. Just like Vietnam, Korea, Afghanistan, Iraq and so on and so on…

The never ending story of Americans adopting Russians has been given a slam in the last few days – Sentence for killers of adopted Russian child ‘too lenient’: The 20-year custodial sentences handed down to the U.S. couple who killed their adopted Russian son were too light, Russia’s child rights ombudsman said on Thursday…

Tymoshenko expects guilty verdict soon: Former Ukrainian prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko expects a guilty verdict by the end of next week in her trial on abuse of office charges, she said on Thursday. Okay – well she is guilty and she knows it. But it may be that she is being tried for all the wrong reasons and that is what makes it wrong…

Russian gas turbine locomotive sets 16,000- ton record: A new world record was set at Shcherbinka outside Moscow on September 7 as the world’s latest experimental gas turbine locomotives, the GT-1, hauled 170 freight cars weighing a total of 16,000 metric tons. This milestone took place at the All Russia Railway Research Institute’s experimental ring. Spectators included visitors from the III International Rail Salon EXPO 1520 that kicked off earlier in the day…

Russia should have called for a balanced approach on Libya also – Russia calls for balanced approach to Syria: Russia is ready to support various approaches to resolving the situation in Syria, but they should not be based on a unilateral condemnation of the Syrian authorities’ response to the popular uprising, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said in an interview with Euronews…

No direct Putin-U.K. contact ‘for 4 years’: There has been no direct contact between Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and U.K. ministers or diplomats since 2007, the BBC said on Friday, citing Whitehall officials. Now they worry! It looks like Putin will become president of Russia again and now they are worried. They should be…

China, Russia hold training maneuvers on Amur River: On Sept. 8, Russian and Chinese rescuers practiced rescuing people in distress, as well as cleaning up oil spills and put out fires on vessels…

Libyan scenario in Syria unacceptable: UN Resolution 1973 was exceeded in Libya, and Russia does not want similar scenario to unfold in Syria, Dmitry Medvedev told the Euronews TV Channel after the Global Policy Forum in Yaroslavl. Okay once again this should not have happened in Libya and anyone with half a brain cell saw it coming…

No more Moscow money for Black Sea Fleet: Moscow authorities have pulled the plug on their program of financing Russia’s Black Sea Fleet, saying the millions of dollars Moscow donates are being squandered. Now what is Moscow money doing going to the Black Sea Fleet in the first place. I would say Moscow needs the money herself…

Interesting day in the news for Russia!

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PS: What I left out of this news assortment is the fact that the Russian media is slamming America right now. I find it interesting as we come up on 9-11 in America. I then realized that America messed up big time because Russia was the first to extend a helping hand over 9-11. Putin was the first official in the world to call about the tragedy. There was a beautiful monument that was made for America and it was shoved aside like a bad egg. Lots of things happened and it was all in the face of a Russia that offered and opened arms. The USA missed the opportunity of a lifetime to really do a reset over the 9-11 tragedy and then many years later faked a reset. Russians have woke up to the American way of playing games and it is starting to show…

In the modern world the media are not the key opinion-makers anymore –Russia’s President Dmitry Medvedev stated at the Yaroslavl Global Policy Forum 2011. He noted that before a couple of channels, papers and radio stations were enough to form a public opinion but now millions of Internet-users shape the leading info trends.

“Today everyone can be a news-maker changing the world”, Medvedev said noting that new media technology made the world diverse and complex and taught people to respect alternative views.

To find out more on the issue, read at Yaroslavl Global Policy Forum

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Believe it or not, this was taken with a camera phone. My LG phone is a lousy phone but a great camera… 🙂

The lake in front is almost dry and since it is going on Winter it will stay dry. They will put no new fish in until next Spring. As you see the village is on a mound and is the high spot for many kilometers. Hence we can see forever on a clear day. It seems that I can not get enough shots of this view of the village and I am trying to get a shot from all seasons. I have Spring, Summer and Fall now. Winter will be hard because the snow gets deep…

I want to have our Volga converted to a 4 wheel drive. The process is not that hard because almost all parts are interchangeable amongst the Gaz family of vehicles. Then we will take a trek to the village in the Winter…

I can see why the monks originally built a church and a monastery there. It truly is Gods place and when I am not there I dream of living there the rest of my life. Working the land to raise food, having several goats, maybe a cow and chickens for food and milk…

I was floored a few days ago when I found out that one of the homes in the village was sold for 30,000 rubles ($1000 dollars). It made me think back to 50 acres I bought in Missouri once, years and years ago at $81 dollars an acre. $4000 dollars for some of the most beautiful land in the world…

We have to get back down to the village before the snow flies and finish the fence. This weekend coming up we will get all of our supplies in order to make the trip in a few weeks. Time is flying

God has blessed me and I am not afraid to say that. Sveta is the most wonderful loving woman I have ever met and I hope to survive many years to enjoy my life with her in Russia…

Have a nice day!

Kyle Keeton
Windows to Russia!

A Yak-42 plane carrying the Lokomotiv Yaroslavl ice hockey team crashed after take-off in the Yaroslavl Region on September 7. More than 40 people died in the crash. 🙁

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Today I decided that since I have fought a long battle now against a Democracy that wants to shut down Windows to Russia, literally. I would do some thinking’s over a cup of chicory about democracy…

First off what is democracy? Lets use this one and just click the link and you will find a whole page to read…

Democracy: Form of government, where a constitution guarantees basic personal and political rights, fair and free elections, and independent courts of law.

My personal understanding of “Democracy is government of, for and by the people”. In a democracy the people not only are to make the decisions but the decision of “The Majority” are to be fully carried out. Therefore, in my opinion, on the entire face of the earth, there is no such government…. not even in America, Canada, etc, etc, etc…

In fact I do not see fair and free elections. I do not see independent courts of law anywhere in the world. No matter how independent you think it is, someone is pulling the strings somewhere and it is not “we the people”. Judges are bought off everyday in the world. Judges have bosses and they dictate the rules. Even if you don’t see the dictation. Laws are changed and corrupted everyday. To allow people to get away with murder literally. I really laugh when someone tells me that America is “Rule of Law!” I also laugh when I see someone say that you are “Innocent Until Proven Guilty!” That is not true in America anymore. What is true, is to be tried by the media before you get to court…

I have thought about, is the will of the people ever carried out by a government? I mean any government under any political agenda? I see a big answer of, NO! I see a big racket being played in the world. Just as it has been played all through history. Nothing changes…

I realized here recently that “Democracy” is a “War Cry” today, just like in the past with the holy wars, in the name of God…

The Crusades, 11th, 12th, and 13th-century religiously sanctioned military campaigns waged by much of Christian Europe against the Muslim Middle East. Link >>>

Sounds kinda like today, except we are screaming the word “democracy” as we have military campaigns against the Middle east. If you ever look around you will see that your “Christian Church” is dancing to the tune of these wars in modern times. I have even seen pictures with Jesus and he has a weapon in his hands… 🙁

I once had a minister look at me and say,”Thank you for your service to our country. You are to be blessed because you have kept us free!”

Okay, Free from what? People trying to kill me because I was on their land in their country and killing their people? Free from people that could care less about us and it would stay that way if we kept our noses clean…

Also I remember the war cry called “Communism”! That is the holy war of my time…

Cow manure stinks but it smells like roses compared to the stuff the West spreads around the world…

Kyle Keeton
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PS: In the next few days 5000+ people will read this article and just maybe, just maybe, one person will do some thinking. Grab a cup of coffee, tea or chicory and contemplate what is happening to the world…

Just a small poll done by Moscow News. Nothing that people will write home to momma about, but it is what I hear out and about on the streets in Moscow. This was done before the confirming news about France. I would imagine if this poll was done now instead of almost a month ago. You would see more like 75% for key resources. Remember France was promised 35% share in the oil in Libya and that is a fact. France can deny all they want, but oil is the name of the game…

The main mass media refused to acknowledge this little tidbit of news. Which means without a doubt that it is true. Silence from the main mass media means only one thing. They got caught off guard by the news and just chose to ignore the truth. Kinda like what they did to Ron Paul in America and are still doing to Ron Paul in America…

Just some thoughts with a cup of Chicory today…

Kyle Keeton
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When school starts in Russia as it did the beginning of September. Moscow changes from a summer city with whispers of children’s voices to a winter city that is full of the squeals and delights of children’s voices. In Moscow any parent that can get their child to a dacha or village and keep them there for the summer, they do it. It is considered good for the child and always there is at least one parent staying with the child. It is not a dump the kid program so that mom and dad can have fun. It is really a serious thing in Russia to get your kids to spend time in the country. Kids need to plant flowers and vegetables. They need to care for chicken, goats and cows. It is part of growing up in Russia…

So the start of summer is called Last Bell and the end of summer is First Bell. That is what I hear all the time around Moscow. If you hear someone proclaim first bell, then you realize that summer is almost over. Same for last bell, it means summer starts…

This is my Que as to what the roads will be like in Moscow. Summer is definitely a whole bunch easier to get around and find parking in Moscow. As compared to now after the first bell, the city is a blanket of cars on every sidewalk and grass spot… 🙂

It is also nice to see that all kids have a dress code. School in Russia is not the place to wear jeans and t-shirt. The boys have a dark colored suit, many times and or at least dress pants and a white shirt and tie. The girls wear dark dresses and or sometimes they are a grey/brown plaid type dress material with a white blouse. It is nice to see kids not walking home from school with their pants dragging the ground and t-shirts that say derogatory remarks about someone or something…

When I grew up we use to call it the same thing (First Bell/Last Bell) out in the country. I remember one day when I was little, I realized that it just made sense, because all day long you hear school bells going off at school. Bell for school to start, to end a class and end the day. So Fist Bell and Last Bell just made sense…

My favorite was the real bell that the teacher would ring by pulling a rope on the bell mounted on a pole…

Kyle Keeton
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Stock-holders of the South Stream gas pipeline project will sign an agreement on the 16th of September, 2011. The project stipulates laying a gas pipeline across the Black Sea from Russia to the countries of Central and South Europe. The first stage is to be put into operation in December 2015, and running the South Stream pipeline at full capacity is expected in 2018…

The South Stream project is part of the bypass of Transit countries for gas to Europe. The Nord Stream gas pipeline which travels under the Baltic Sea flowed gas this Tuesday, in a trial run to check out technical issues. The Nord Stream just like the South Stream when finished, will provide deliveries of Russian gas to the EU bypassing all other former transit countries…

I have a saying: “When the going gets tough, the tough get going!” well actually Joseph P. Kennedy had that saying also. But I heard it from my football couch a hundred times or more…

Russia decided to bypass, pain in the ass transit countries for gas. Lets hope Europe can finally get some Winter peace and not freeze because a transit country decides to play political Russian Roulette…

Kyle Keeton
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