Category: Russia

In fact I have been starting to drink more chicory than coffee. (A lot more.) In Kiev, Ukraine I fell off the band wagon and drank coffee, but here in Russia it is easier to keep on a pattern. So I decided it was bothering me that I am saying that I am drinking coffee and in reality I am drinking chicory much more often than not. Switching to chicory was for health reasons as chicory is actually good for diabetics such as me…

Sveta says who cares if you drink chicory or coffee? But after I thought about it for a few days. I guess I care! It is time that I remove the coffee and replace with chicory. Though it just does not sound as appropriate to say, “The World of Russia and a Cup of Chicory…”

Or maybe in Russia that really does make more sense… 🙂

So it looks like I need to do some thinking’s over a cup of chicory…

Kyle Keeton
Windows to Russia!

What happens when a country wants its gold back and they want it in solid form? Not paper but real Gold! What happens when the banks that keep the gold do not have that much real gold or it depletes all the supply they have, to give it back?

So the news that Hugo Chavez made a decision to recall Venezuela’s gold reserves stored in U.S. and European banks, was being done to protect the country from economic troubles in the developed world. Is no surprise to a sane human and makes total sense. It is Venezuela’s gold and they can do what they want with it. It also was announced that this other assets will also be distributed to countries that are safer such as China, Russia and Brazil…

In a real world that is fair: Chavez (Venezuela) made a smart move.  The U.S. and Western Europe have seized Libya’s assets and are handling the billions of dollars as if it was their own money to give.  Some will be given to the “rebel” government, some will be payed to Western companies to re-build Libya, some will pay for oil companies to move into Libya to control the oil fields… and some money frankly will just go “missing”. Actions like that have consequences…

Since the West has proven over and over again that they can freeze and seize assets that are kept under their control at will (Iran, Iraq, Syria, Libya, etc…) why would any sane world leader trust the West with their countries money or security?  I’m surprised more aren’t following suit and dis-investing in the West…

What it all means is that the world realizes that money kept in the USA and Western Europe is not a safe bet anymore. In fact it is a unwise move and that issues has been brought about by the actions of the Western world…

This is enough gold to cause a serious implosion: This could be considered an outright attack on the West as major financial markets. This is a big question mark on the West as a safe place to keep your gold and other assets. Could this start a run on pulling gold from the US, UK, European Union and Switzerland? I see by Google that Venezuela’s gold reserves are 13th in the world. This might have much more dire consequences than Venezuela understands. The Western press has already started the propaganda and the commentators have already taken up the war cry against Venezuela. But then maybe they do understand and the consequences of leaving the gold in the West is greater than taking it back home where it belongs…

What will happen to Venezuela, over this move? Right now this is a staggering amount of money (11 billion in gold, not worthless paper). The West is broke (very broke) and most likely does not have enough gold to do what is necessary or really does not want to return the gold. The West can not afford any more countries to want their gold which is stored in the Western vaults. In a fair world nothing will happen, but in the Western world who sees this as a challenge to her empire. The repercussions are sever. That is what keeps more countries from pulling their assets… (right now at least)

It is called ruling by “Terror”…

Kyle Keeton
Windows to Russia!

I thought it would be interesting to show you the list of sites that are now being blocked from being shown in Ukraine. What started out as just a blockage on Windows to Russia has now grown and encompassed at least two servers. 180.92.169.153 and 180.92.169.158…

My host is not sure what is happening and as you can see at the bottom of the list it also includes one of their own main domains. (znet) The list is growing daily…

My host has been working on this since I got back and it is a real puzzle. It is now a blockage somewhere between Ukraine and India in the web system. As you know Ukraine allowed me to have access again to the site Windows to Russia. They were true to their word and did. Then as my time in Ukraine ended the site was blocked again. Ukraine said that they did not do it this time. The first time was during a lot of political issues happening downtown Kiev. I was asked to stay away and I did. After a lot of testing on the second blockage, I now believe them on the new issue. But someone has extended the blockage and it now affects many sites that originally when located in Ukraine it did not affect: (See list below)

180.92.169.158 180.92.169.153 1clickrecharge.com a2acatalyst.com accountsoftware.co.in ahmedabad.saledekho.com ajmantwins.com almajlistents.com ammoniumchloride.in anantart.com antsindia.com asbuildtech.com asianoilfield.com babymodels.in bajajallianz.sastipolicy.com bangalore.saledekho.com baseinformation.com blog.ezrecharge.in bsesensex.info c24x.com calciumchloride.in chennai.saledekho.com clotheswala.com coffee.windowstorussia.com cradlecareonline.com creativeqtr.com delhi.saledekho.com demo.znetindia.net ditmanipur.gov.in dreamlinepro.com exampulse.com formdrill-india.com fortiusis.com goodtimesholidays.info gujaratflyingclub.org gyanagni.com hoteltheretreat.com hyderabad.saledekho.com icb12.iiitd.ac.in ieindia.org in.chitradurga.org india-diet-shop.com indorichatora.com insuremygadget.com intradaytips.info irtex.in jainmuninamisagarji.org jhatang.com kolkata.saledekho.com m.ahmedabad.saledekho.com maapavivasvan.com madhufabs.com meramaal.com migrit.com mobimasta.com msitcollege.org muby.in mumbai.saledekho.com munesh.znetindia.com nakshatraheights.com nettimber.org newimagegfx.com news.windowstorussia.com nvinhotel.com omegabrightsteel.com pearlgloballogistic.com photozonegraphics.com pokhran.net potassiumchloride.in primexcompressor.com procon-sol.com pune.saledekho.com rawmango.in rayrice.biz saledekho.com sastipolicy.com sastiproperty.com satyajyothi.com scubehosting.net shreehariexport.com smaartindia.com sodiumacetate.in srisolaidentalcare.com sritejomay.biz steps2soft.com sworx18.com techsabha.com thecochindaily.com theonlyanil.com toothncare.com vwcinternational.com wasserpolymer.com webconengineers.com webdesigncompanychennai.com windowstorussia.com wonemanagement.net www.ajoooba.com www.anantart.com www.asianoilfield.com www.astrodesire.com www.awal.in www.baitalnokhada.com www.baseinformation.com www.bsesensex.info www.bullraider.com www.buythebluepill.com www.computechadvise.com www.controlz.co.in www.curvedental.co.in www.dignityfoundation.com www.dignitylifestyle.org www.ezrecharge.in www.ferngardenia.com www.ferngardeniaresortgoa.com www.goodfuture.biz www.haridwar-properties.com www.hkstudio.in www.iceionline.org www.ieindia.org www.iiitd.ac.in www.india-diet-shop.com www.indiabix.com www.indorichatora.com www.iqss.in www.ittuts.com www.lifetimeindia.co.in www.liveindianews.in www.logicallife.biz www.meramaal.com www.nitman.co.in www.pcpl.me www.photozonegraphics.com www.ramcons.com www.ramconsrealtors.com www.ramconsresidency.com www.ramconswooden.com www.rawmango.in www.revanbattery.com www.saledekho.com www.sastiproperty.com www.scube-india.com www.shreehariexport.com www.suryodayaresorts.com www.swain.in www.thelatestnews.in www.ticollege.ac.in www.toothncare.com www.villagemultimedia.in www.znet.in zincchloride.in znet.in…

What we do know is that this is a beta software that was used. It came from a Western source. It was admitted to have been tested in Ukraine. But now it seems to have either caused a huge issue or is still in effect outside of Ukraine. (the latter is my guess) Ukraine internally has been cleared on the second blockage…

If we find the core of the issue, I will post all details. This is starting to look like governments will be blocking at will and that testing on this issue is being done world wide. It looks like in the name of national security, blockage is thy name…

Kyle Keeton
Windows to Russia!

The beginnings have started and you will see blockage of Twitter and Facebook as common place in the future. Belarus just blocked VKontakte a social network site in Russia, due to social unrest. The West said very little about it because, well they want to do it also. Britain, France and America has huge desires to block Twitter and Facebook and you can not be bad mouthing people when you want to do the same…

My up bringing on a farm in the Midwest of America did not include a lot of salmon. In fact salmon in my life was canned and labeled pink or red. It was always mixed with bread n eggs and became a cheap meal. Sveta looks at me funny when I mention buying salmon in that form. 90% of the salmon in Russia is fresh and we are talking about tons of salmon everywhere. While not  sea food you would think it is by the fact that many stores in Moscow carry fresh salmon. If you can not find fresh salmon you will find it in a sealed see through pack. It comes smoked many times and salted…

It still amazes me after all these years to see huge isles of salmon at the chain supermarkets. It is not uncommon to see people carrying huge 10 to 20 kilo whole fish out the door to have a feast at home. In fact I think that I am stifling Sveta’s desire for salmon because it does not cross my mind as a normal food item. But to a Russian it is as normal as caviar…

So lets do a few salmon recipes over the next month. It is only fair, because Russians love salmon…

Lets try: Salmon and Potato Salad

Sveta loves a salad made at the near by store that follows this same pattern. This is not a hot dish at all and is served cold and is considered a salad.The onions do not have to be cooked if you love raw onions,. I also see this dish with a layer of shredded cooked beets on top, carrots in it, corn in it and you can dice the eggs and I find that I like it better as a warm dish and that is most likely the German/American Midwesterner in me… 🙂

Remember as always that there are as many recipes of this salad as there are Russians. This is a true Russian favorite…

Kyle Keeton
Windows to Russia!

Mikhail Gorbachev does what he does best and what he is paid by the West to do: Mikhail Gorbachev, the former Soviet leader, has called for a removal of Russia’s leadership and criticized the United Russia party as a “worse version of the Soviet Communist party”…

I guess Gorby has to pay back for that elaborate birthday party that Europe threw him this year. This is also a sign that elections are coming in Russia. Gorbachev has to keep the rhetoric up to earn his Western salary…

There is a joke told from the old days of Soviet Union and it was even presented in the Western presses then and now:

“And one man turned in the queue (line) to his neighbour and said: ‘I’m fed up with this, I blame Gorbachev, I’m going to kill Gorbachev,’ and off he went. He came back two days later and the people in the queue (line) said: ‘Did you kill Gorbachev?’ ‘No,’ he replied ‘The queue (line) to kill Gorbachev was just too long’.”

Did not seem funny to me but the Western press ate it up at one time and still use it. Sometimes joke are truth and that is why they are jokes instead of reality…

So the Western press plays up the rhetoric and the games of politics continue. But what everyone should be doing is looking at their home front and realize that the cards are collapsing…

Windows to Russia!

Yushchenko Slams Tymoshenko at Trial

08/18/2011
KIEV — Former Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko on Wednesday testified against his Orange Revolution partner, former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko Yulia Tymoshenko, in her abuse of office trial — as her supporters inside and outside the courthouse chanted “Shame! Shame!”

Windows to Russia!

I was savoring that cup of coffee this morning. It was a delight and made the mood better as I finished up some issues that were dragging Windows to Russia down…

Most readers do not realize that it is just not readers that stop by a web site. There is a whole array of trashy spambots, spam robots, automated commenting and dozens of other pain in the butt type things that destroy a websites peace and tranquility…

After over 30,000 automated comments in about two days and that is on top of the millions that I have received over the years. I have destroyed the comment system in the WordPress system that we have. It is history, kaput, exiled, stomped in the ground and removed from the coding…

Comments have always been an issue and the increase in spam was exponentially growing faster than the systems can keep ahead of it. So two days ago I made the move. It has been so quiet in back of the house on the blog, that it echoed. No spam, no automated comments and no trash at all. No unnecessary load on the servers and no drop in page counts. For quite awhile I have been blocking spam and just sending it to the trash immediately. I knew that real comments have been hurt by this but it was so overwhelming that there was nothing else to do about it…

Now it is all on a outside server and not on mine anymore. Livefyre.com is the new system and it is fairly basic and not a lot of bells and whistles. It is easy to use Twitter, Facebook, Google and Link-in to sign in with. If you want to spam it, then spam it because you are on their server not mine anymore…

Sometimes that spam was so bad that it would affect the operation of Windows to Russia. It would slow things down and on a shared server that is not good. WordPress is referred to as a spam magnet and I can vouch for that…

I just turned off the magnet…

Now lets talk about the Ukraine Blockage issue. Progress is being made and my hosting company is a little bit perturbed by the issue. I have recruited a hosting company in Ukraine to help and we are trying to pin point what is happening. Right now it is just not my site that is blocked but has been extended to the whole server that Windows to Russia resides on. This situation is blocking some large websites and news websites. I expect it to be cleared up, but the desire to find out who and how it is being done has become a priority. What started out being just my site blocked three weeks ago has now become a server of 300+ websites. All blocked in Ukraine…

This issues is not good and I have been happy to see that Ukrainian server hosts are dead set against what has happened. I have been offered to set up a mirror in Ukraine to get around the issue. Many Ukrainian hosts are non USA based and they are proud of that fact. That is something that we will have to see about later. We were ranked very high in Ukraine before this happened on Alexa. Alexa had us ranked at 9000 in Ukraine and that ranking is being lost now..

Kyle Keeton
Windows to Russia!

As always getting a Visa to Russia from Ukraine, entails an interesting trip.This trip was no different and I am still dealing with the percussion’s of said trip. Windows to Russia got blocked by a software system that has origins outside of Ukraine… (But this article is about visas not censorship!)

Getting a visa for Russia has the same basic requirements.
1. you need two Russian sized passport pictures. (3.5cms X 4.5cms)
2. You need a telex of your invitation.
3. You need two fully completed and signed applications.
4. You must have a copy of your migration card that you received at the border.
5. A clear readable copy of your passport. (black and white is fine)
6. $250 American dollars.

Unless you are getting a work permit visa. You do not need an HIV certificate. I saw two individuals denied a visa this time because they hand carried a invitation into the consulate. It was explained to me again after an inquiry, that telex is the only surefire way of no invitation issues. Any reputable company that gives out invitations from Russia will know all about telex and you let them do their job. Hand carrying a invitation into the consulate seems to be a no no the last few times I have been there…

(If you desire a name of a company that is reputable for invitations ask in a e-mail and we will give you the info.)

The big change at the Ukraine consulate is that no one but no one gets a next day, three day or any quick processed visa. If you do not have residency in Ukraine then you must wait about two full business weeks (10 business days). You will be stuck in Kiev without a passport for two weeks of fun and joy… 🙂

As always the cheapest place to spend you days of fun and joy in Kiev is the hotel that I always go to. It is called the Slavutich Hotel. It runs about $30 dollars a day (254 hrv) and they really are a great place to stay. You must ask for economy and make reservations by Internet to get a good rate. It is cheaper than trying to rent a whole flat in Kiev…

Links to past posts about Visa runs to Kiev Ukraine: We have way too many links to list…
http://windowstorussia.com/new-russian-visa-dance-for-americans-is-in-the-works.html
http://windowstorussia.com/russian-visa-what-you-need.html
http://windowstorussia.com/russia-needs-to-change-and-correct-the-visa-issues.html
Search Link on Windows to Russia for Visa…

Of course this is all different if you are from another country and if it is your first visa. I am American and have received many visas. So this article is for seasoned people who do this all the time. If you are American then your first visa will be obtained in America. The regulations are slightly different. The need for a HIV is one of those differences I believe…

As always with obtaining a Russian visa, nothing is say in stone and I always say call the consulate to find out any issues that have changed. But then again in the day it takes you to travel to get your visa, all the rules may have changed again… 🙂

Kyle Keeton
Windows to Russia!

Obama, Cameron and Sarkozy are in a pickle for this war to finish by the end of this month of August. You see Nato’s extended deadline expires before you know it and is possibly not to be renewed. So it will leave them totally out in left field as they continue their interfering in a Libyan civil war…

We will see in the next couple of weeks a significant increase in the military activities of NATO led nations, more missiles will fly, more armament will be parachuted in across borders to the rebels…

This will ultimately achieve the one lone objective. Kill Gaddafi (or drive him away at least), but to achieve this we will  have destroyed Libya, killed many thousands and will see more death as the rebels show their true side to Gaddafi supporters and anyone else they don’t like. This will end up as a disintegrating chaotic country with its infrastructure put back decades if not more.

Cameron of Britain has shown how shallow his thought process is, this was supposed to be his crowning military adventure but as he said to those in the military who criticized him  — You do the fighting I’ll do the talking!

Obama showed a lack of understanding on Libyan war; The war will last days, not weeks.  (A video)

And Sarkozy decided that killing Libyans by the West is a much better fate than dying by their own people in a civil war: “Today we are intervening in Libya under the UN mandate with our partners and notably our Arab partners. We are doing it to protect the civilian population from the murderous madness of a regime that in killing its own people has lost all legitimacy.”
— Nicolas Sarkozy (protect? Did he really say protect as we bomb Libya into the stone age?)

You all (Cameron, Obama and Sarkozy) look kinda silly and hence when politicians look silly they do dangerous things. Hence the total lies being bred about the situation in Libya…

Will NATO keep up this senseless killing and bombing?

Windows to Russia!

Update (7pm, 8-16-2011): I am working on this issue and there will be a complete updated article to explain what is happening. My grandma use to say, “Sometimes you have to be that damn squeaky wheel to get the oil!”

Does anyone realize the implications of what Ukraine is doing?
Does anyone care?
Will it only become an issue when more sites are blocked?

Ukraine has permanently blocked Windows to Russia! At least that is how I see it. You should be worried and care…

This is how it starts. Block a few and if the masses could care less then block some more. Once it becomes habit to block sites and everyone starts to worry, it is too late at that point…

The picture is proof of the pudding and it has been this way now for over a week. I got it released before, but this time no one admits that it is blocked…

The image is of a website that checks your site and its up time. Ukraine has totally blocked http://windowstorussia.com and really it is hard to understand why? 99% of my articles about Ukraine are very pro Ukraine. I have always been a supporter of Ukraine and promote betterment for Ukraine. Back when I had a few articles that downed Ukraine, that was a different era and a much different president…

I miss out on the headcount that is being blocked and Ukraine before the blockage had reached number 4 of the countries as a reader on Windows to Russia. I had a huge following and now they are being censored from Windows to Russia! Anyone around the world who knows people in Ukraine. Tell them to try to reach Windows to Russia! They won’t make it. Then tell them to use a proxy. They will get the site then…

I know what is happening and I am going to be patient for the time being. Ukraine needs to unblock Windows to Russia. I am going to exploit all options that I have available to counter this atrocity. But with Britain talking about blocking Twitter and Facebook for security reasons. It looks like Europe as well as America will be following suit with Ukraine and blocking sites that do not fit their agendas…

That means your site and your sites that you read will be blocked if they express views that do not coincide with the Status Quo. There will not be much left to read after that, except government controlled media…

I have heard for years about the terrible government of China and that she blocks sites that do not conform. Looks like Ukraine blocks sites also…

Stay tuned, I am being nice right now and writing letters to all the hosts involved with blocking. ABCname – GiperHost – ITQua – HostLife – ITL – Hvosting – Qlayer.net are the ones that have shown time and time again as the blocked areas. It is time for explanations as to why Windows to Russia is blocked in Ukraine. Would not hurt my feelings at all if a reader decided to inquire also why Windows to Russia is blocked in Ukraine. You can disagree with things I say. But you should dislike your freedoms being destroyed much more than a dislike for me…

Time to wake up and smell the coffee…

Kyle Keeton
Windows to Russia!

PS: As we approach the truths so shall the implications against you be increase to try to squelch truth. For no one squelches lies, but we can see through them with time…