If you knew Moscow like I do?

Then you would be stunned to see it now…

Moscow is a ghost town. Normally 10,000,000 people are milling about constantly…

Svetochka had to go take care of some server issues at the Gazprom Bank and she recorded this. Notice the happy music….Sveta was happy that it was empty and people staying home. But she said it is so weird…

I was not happy that she had to go downtown Moscow during the day, but she went prepared and by taxi. The driver and Sveta had a mask on if you want to know…


Anyone else but me notice that Russia has purchased all the assets of Rosneft (oil and gas) in Venezuela?

Slick move Russia…

Russia making big chess moves these days!


Russians are helping Italy and all you hear in the Western Media is crap about stupidity related to the help from Russia to Italy…

Maybe it is time to stop the games and get serious?

WtR

Russia Creates Anti-Covid-19 Drug – Sputnik International

Earlier in the day, Russia’s operational headquarters for preventing the spread of COVID-19 reported that the number of patients infected with the coronavirus in Russia has increased by 228 people over the past 24 hours, and that one more person has died.The Russian Federal Medical-Biological Agency (FMBA) said in a statement that it has presented a drug to treat the coronavirus, which has affected almost every corner of the globe. Russia’s FMBA is working “on an effective and safe scheme to prevent the coronavirus infection on the basis of mefloquine, which will not only overcome the peak of incidence but also effectively control it in the future”, their press service said.As of 28 March, Russia has registered 1,264 COVID-19 cases in 62 regions.

Source: Russia Creates Anti-Covid-19 Drug – Sputnik International

Kitty says, Excuse me but I am self isolating, if you want to know…

Excuse me…

From my Huawei Mate 30…

Russia has shutdown and I took an early walk in the sunrise…

Strange world we are living in now…

WtR

I hunted down our fox in TRV…

I went out early and walked. I got ready for finding the fox that I got a fuzzy sort of image of the other day. This time at 8.5X Zoom I was able to get a better catch of him while he wandered around and had no idea that I was there…

You will see him when I finally see him…

and…

It was hard for me to get him in the video, but even though I am blind as a bat without my reading glasses, I got him. I played cat and mouse with him for about an hour and we both parted our ways when he found a small pond to lay by and get a drink…

I left him alone and went exploring some more…

I went to the Holy Water Well that the Orthodox have blessed…

I had a good walk and got good videos and pictures as I went…

Stay safe and stay healthy…

WtR

Gotta love Putin…

Putin visited a coronavirus hospital…

I really think that this visit is what convinced him to come out and give the speech I posted the video on earlier…

Justa walking and looking and Putin talked to the people of Russia…

WtR

Justa walking and looking and Putin talked to the people of Russia…

Beautiful day and that evening walk around the lake area was so wonderful…

TRV is perfect as always, just wish my sweetpea was here with me. I miss her…

Putin talked to the Russian people and it is starting to get real very fast in Russia…

Video may play very slow. My server sucks for this type of stuff….but it is worth saving for the future…

Russians will get a week of paid leave, with a boost to benefits for those most in need, while the wealthiest will have to pay more taxes. All among the measures announced by Vladimir Putin to deal with the effects of coronavirus. Speaking during a televised address on Wednesday, the Russian President outlined a number of policies designed to support the Russian people and the national economy amid the increasingly serious threat posed by the pandemic.. He said there was no feasible way to keep the virus out, but that an efficient, coordinated effort to preempt and mitigate the damage will help protect people from the worst outcomes. – RT

But sip a cup of coffee and try to download the video…

Putin’s coronavirus speech download link…


Got to work on Sammy the Volga and start fixing fences around the two homes. Still cold, but spring is here and is warming up…

Gonna take a walk…

WtR

Again -12 this morning and sipping coffee.

I was not the only one who thought it was cold yesterday morning in the Tiny Russian Village (TRV)!

I went walking and it was around -10 at that time. Not frosty, too dry of an air, but still beautifully calm damn cold…

I was walking along the old river bed of our river and noticing that there are deer tacks and deer droppings all over. Then I saw way in the distance, something that did not look like the surrounding area. I thought to myself, “Self, that is something red and what is red out here?”

I used 10X zoom and while it could have been much better if I had held the camera still. I suspected what I took a picture of would soon and I mean soon realize that a big mean bear was around…

Yes you can see the ears facing my way. I call that, their radar is on alert…

I snapped a few pictures and my stupid phone made a shutter sound. Why oh why? I have since turned that off. The sound carried like a lightning bolt in the crisp air and…

The fox, I swear….jumped ten feet in the air and literally walked on air as I gawked like a little kid in astonishment. He bee lined to the river nearby and never to be found again…

I thought about Boza and all the times he chased deer and foxes across this same field. Boza was fast like that also, in his prime. Now he chases them in my imagination. đŸ˜‰

But I like to walk as quietly as I can as I explore. You never know what you will find?


So this morning I got up at 3:30 a.m. and found it as blistering cold as yesterday. So I am posting this and looking at Coronavirus news…

Then in a little while, I will walk again and try to find my foxy friend…

WtR

Just some Coronavirus thoughts in TRV…

Moscow has started to ask the elderly to self-quarantine. They are having issues keeping the elderly under control and now are telling them to please stay home for three weeks and we will also pay you an extra 4000 rubles to do that. That might seem cheap, but 4000 rubles is a bunch of money to them, it will buy a bunch of stuff extra for them…

Sveta’s mother is a prime example of who they are struggling to get to stay home. Sveta’s uncle, who is the elder brother of her mother is happy as a bee at a huge flower to stay home and ride it out. I think since he uses western news sources as his reading, is a bit more worried after what he reads in the western news…

Sveta’s mother is even balking at the fact that the government is saying stay home old people. Old Soviet to the core….bless her heart, I understand completely, but I want her safe also…


Five new testing places have been opened in Moscow.Many more will open quickly and I am impressed with how Russia does not wait around to see what might be, but tries to error on the safer side of issues…

I like it, the image above…

They are pushing old Soviet style to get the new hospital done…

https://www.rt.com/russia/483831-coronavirus-hospital-soviet-style-billboards/

When the person in front of you falls and fails, pick up his hammer and keep hammering!


The Orthodox have their way to deal with the coronavirus…

Stay two meters apart and do their thing anyway. They also have made sure that communion biscuits are individually wrapped and they have doubled the communion wine. They say that the wine fights the coronavirus and is good for you…

Now that is makes me smile and I hardly can disagree with that thinking. Take a nip and or two to make things better…


A brief thought about the USA…

America you should be ashamed at increasing sanctions during this time and you should be double ashamed at even sanctioning so many countries in the first place. The US has just increased sanctions on Syria, Russia, Iran, China and many more….

The way the USA is acting about this virus is making the world stop and stare. Italy is being helped, by many but the US is looking the other way. Russia has just sent tons of supplies to Italy, yet the US got Poland to close their airspace to Russian jets delivering the help…

Sick country America, very sick…


China is basically back in full swing, still some limitations, but we have received all items ordered in a timely manner and Russia just got 25,000,000 masks from China no issues…

I am proud of how China handled this virus issue, yes they are still fighting it, yet they have a country, despite all what the western press has said, it pulled together and did what they had to and are doing what they have to now…

Bless the Russians hearts, they are doing the same and it is wonderful to see the respect for the elderly (as in China) that I am seeing in Russia…


Last tidbit…

https://sputniknews.com/world/202003201078635890-russia-starts-testing-coronavirus-vaccines—consumer-rights-watchdog/

Russia has started testing of vaccines against the novel coronavirus disease, Russian consumer rights watchdog Rospotrebnadzor announced on Friday.

“The research center of Rospotrebnadzor started testing the vaccine against the novel coronavirus”, the watchdog said, stressing that the vaccine prototypes are based on six different technological platforms.

Rospotrebnadzor hopes that the mass production of the vaccines would be launched in the fourth quarter of 2020.

Keep your fingers crossed and keep safe people…

WtR

Good Grief I forgot about the cold this winter…

Woke this morning at 4 a.m. and found it at -12 and you could hear a tree creak from a kilometer away. Sound travels very far when it is cold….and when the world is asleep also. The stars were like right above me and it looked as if I can just reach up and pick one from the sky…

It has been a mild winter and now it is having a last attempt at telling us who is boss…

Trying to walk twice a day…

The pussy willows are blooming and that reminded me of Easter….looks like Easter will be postponed this year. April 19, 2020 is Easter for the Orthodox and that will be in the middle of the coronavirus worst for Russia….don’t know yet, we will see…

Sveta is working from home and she is finally getting into a routine there. She is having issues getting her family to get themselves corralled and stay home. But I suspect that is common all over the world right now?

I find people interesting when The S@#$ Hits The Fan…

I am stocked in the TRV and if her family gets itself together, I am getting set up for them….but….it looks like they will be a day late and a dollar short. Too many, who cares, I am not sick, the government has not said and just plain stubbornness abound…

Yesterday, one village home was opened up and a whole family moved in. They had two vehicles and trailers full of food and their furniture. They have enough room at their place for twelve and more people and they are full….I was proud of who ever got them to obey and do what is right…

See, in Sveta’s family they do not have an elder man who is the boss and it shows. I do not count, I am just an American, what does he know?


Enough of that…

It will be crystal clear for the next few days and all I have to do to finish and stay put is get all my gas cans full and make sure I have all my medications…

I feel good this morning and according to the Russian doctors talking on TV and such, if you do not show symptoms in five days (????), you are pretty safe and should stay isolated to keep from getting it…

I suspect that our village will gain new tenants as the weeks go by. People will wake up and leave the huge cities if they can. I just know that I will be locking the gates and putting up keep out signs…

That is enough for today. Gotta get things done…

WtR

Been busy getting the TRV homes set up…

Been shopping at the Big Village and getting our homes in the Tiny Russian Village stocked. Vova is happy someone has finally come to the village and things in our village seem so removed from what is happening around the world. It is just a Tiny Russian Village and as of this moment there are no more than three people here, including me…

I will start taking pictures as I find more time…

Sure nice being in TRV….just wish my Sweety was here with me…

WtR