Category: Russia

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 […]

Last time I was here my kids came. This time I got business done… Well let me think about Armenia and that was some trip…… *** *** *** Big fireworks display downtown Yerevan… (video) So a week in Armenia and now back home in Russia… So nice to get home to my SweetPea… WtR

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, […]

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, […]

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 […]

https://www.rt.com/india/628880-putin-visit-india-summit/ https://sputnikglobe.com/20251204/global-balance-of-power-changing-new-centers-of-power-emerging—putin-1123228768.html WtR

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 […]

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 […]

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https://tass.com/world/2053359 “I said ‘You have no cards’,” the American president said, referring to his February meeting with Vladimir Zelensky at the White House. “That was the time to settle. I thought that would have been a much better time to settle… They have a lot of things against them right now,” he added. Hmm… in […]