Russian Christmas the New Year…

In the days of the Soviet Union, Christmas wasn’t celebrated very noticeably, but it was still celebrated even if silently. New Year was the necessary time for enjoyment. Currently Christmas in Russia is widely known normally to be on January seventh. The date is completely different as a result of the Russian Orthodox church uses […]

Document published in following posting(s): Archive Lawsuit Opens Vladimir Putin Memcons/Telcons Dec 23, 2025…

3a – PDF download for your records… Memorandum of Conversation. Subject: Vladimir Putin, President of the Russian Federation https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/document/33710-document-2-memorandum-conversation-subject-vladimir-putin-president-russian Date Sep 16, 2005 Description Putin meets the U.S. President in the Oval Office for a plenary that covers mainly issues of nonproliferation and U.S.-Russian cooperation on Iran and North Korea. The conversation shows impressively close […]

Retired from volume articles and info. Thus, will now have driblets of articles gracing the pages of this old website…

That answers that and that is all she wrote… It is called retirement for a reason and truthfully, I have so damn much stuff to do that I cannot just worry about your inability to comprehend simple truth and facts anymore. So many plebs are as useless as a screen door on a submarine… Besides, […]

Okey-doke time 2…

Years back I was thinking… My thinking this morning… *** Then lately… The transformative event I have been waiting for has finally occurred, and my wish to share a cup of coffee with you and explore what Russia has to offer is fulfilled. I have arrived at a moment that declares, “My life has transformed, […]

Okey-doke time…

I have decided that I have done enough massive blogging and I am looking at my options for what I have done since 2006 and almost 14,000 posts, 700 posts a year. (Though, I admit that it was a slow start and I thought 100 posts was a milestone.) Yes, that is 20 years of […]

My thinking for today…

In both Europe and the USA, I have observed that the significant issues, often referred to as the ‘elephant in the room,’ are frequently overlooked and disregarded, much like the metaphorical ‘800-pound gorilla.’ I do not take pleasure in the inevitability that the existence of these pressing matters will eventually need to be recognized. The […]

Only play cards when you actually can play cards…

https://tass.com/world/2053359 WASHINGTON, December 4. /TASS/. The Ukrainian leadership should have agreed to a settlement of the conflict earlier, as the current situation is now largely turning against them, US President Donald Trump told reporters at the White House. “I said ‘You have no cards’,” the American president said, referring to his February meeting with Vladimir […]