But there is a whole bunch of nonprofessional governmental ignoramuses whom all think they are experts on Russia…
WtR
Category: Russia
I have talked about Gillette and that they deserve to go out of business and that I will never buy a Gillette razor again…
Gillette has raised recently their prices, four times and even five times the original price in Russia. I mean seriously, they have reduced the quantity (9 razors now at 3 in the pack for a higher price.) and raised the price. I at one time (two weeks ago) could buy 5 basic double blade Gillette razors for around 89 rubles. They now sell at 599 rubles at Globus. The image is of their checkout stock and I will tell you that hardly anyone will buy them…
The Russian manufacturing has produced the equivalent razors, at the same quality and higher quantity in a package for what is now 69 rubles a 5 pack… (Touch more than a Dollar for five razors.)
A company that raises the price this high in the foreign market shows that it is under stress. It either means that the US market is collapsing and or has collapsed and they are trying to make up some profit downfall by foreign sales increases. This is a stop gap measure and even more Russians will stop buying Gillette…
I have to smile when I see a company as pathetic as Gillette falter. They will lie and cover it up for a year or more. That is typical corporate manner, but it will start showing on their bottom line in the future…
Gillette you deserve to be out of business for your slanted, hateful advertisement to your biggest buyers of razor products…
WtR
It is snowing like crazy…
Good thing I took an umbrella when I walked…
Gonna be one long winter in Russia and I can feel it in my bones…
I predict 8 to 9 months of winter this time….gotta get to the Tiny Russian Village…
WtR
Russia’s largest oil company Rosneft has asked and is tendering transactions in the euro. They have switched from the US Dollar as its main default currency. This is for all exports of crude oil and refined products, as the oil company is turning off the Dollar trap for as many sales as possible in order to avoid illegal U.S. sanctions being slapped against it by the USA…
I have talked about the fact that Russia has to leave the Dollar and either go to the Euro and or go to Gold. The Euro is a stop gap measure, but by making the Euro first in transactions, time will be bought as Russia continues to De-Dollarize…
You can’t blame Rosneft for doing it. The Dollar has be weaponized and thus it must be excluded from the world transactions. It takes time, but companies like Rosneft can do it…
Remember that a snowball and or a avalanche starts small and gets big as it goes downhill…
I have also talked about how Europe is being destroyed by America. The EU went along with too many sanctions and played too many games. I guess they thought that the USA was going to come out on top and or they have been trying to play along to garner time to salvage themselves…
For the last 16 years (Since the Iraq war started) the world has started to walk on egg shells and have been smiling at America while they hold backroom meetings to figure out what to do…
Unless the EU wakes up and turns East and leaves the West behind. This action of using the Euro will be only a stop gap measure. If the EU embraces other countries and plays fair, they can salvage the EU and the Euro…
Again…
The USA is at war with the whole world, just that half the world has not woke from their nap yet…
WtR
Update:
Russia’s largest oil company Rosneft has set the euro as the default currency for all new exports of crude oil and refined products. As of September, Rosneft is seeking euros as the default option of payment for its crude oil and products, Reuters reported on Thursday, quoting tender documents the Russian firm has published. “Rosneft has recently adjusted all the new contracts for export supplies to euros,” a trader at a company that regularly procures oil from Rosneft told Reuters, adding that buyers
Source: Russia’s largest oil company ditches dollar in new oil deals — RT Business News
Started Sammy the Volga this morning and I found an issue that has to be fixed before we leave…
When we had the car redone two years ago, the wonderful workers had stolen our new alternator that I had installed and put on an old one from a piece of junk. Of course the guys ran from town or the Big Village as I call it and have never been seen again…
But we got two years out of it and now it has gone belly up and is dead…
While they did a good job on the body work, we had a bunch of little things that happened like this and we are still, two years later, paying for their workmanship…
Be it Russia and or America and or anywhere we have been, that is the story of our lives…
So I will be working on the Volga the next few days…
WtR
Just walking and looking at things…
Actually this was yesterday as I walked. Today I am feeling sick and taking it easy. Getting ready to go to the Tiny Russian Village this weekend and spend about two weeks there…
Sveta will come home to Moscow and go play with the grandkids and I will get the two village homes winterized…
Never enough time to get everything done…
WtR
Hmm…
The idea of Ukraine joining NATO is an attempt by the West to stand on Russian soil without an invitation. The US has Russia completely surrounded by military bases, but I have not heard of Russian military bases in the Western Hemisphere near the US border. Explain to me who is the culprit in this situation. Russia or the West led by America?
Hmm…
Kyle
Want to try what the Russians eat? Okay maybe not? So maybe you want to try something new then? Well this is the page for you…
122 recipes and it is growing still… (Russian Recipes)
- Russian Tea Cakes (Recipe)
- Russian Beet and Potato Salad (Recipe)
- Russian Mashed Potato and Mushroom Croquettes (Recipe)
- Iriski a Soviet Candy… (Recipe)
- Pine Cone Varenye (Pine Cone Jam) recipe
- A Russian Dressing recipe…
- Soviet Mustard Sauce and or Spread (Recipe)
- Been canning Plum Jam… TRV
- Russian Presidential Easter Cake…
- Napoleon Tort (торт наполеон)
- Russian Apple Dumplings Recipe…. (Kletski)
- Pasta with bell peppers
- Salat Iz Yaits – Russian Egg Salad
- Simple Belyashi a Almost Russian Recipe of Taste Bud Delight
- Aubergine Caviar or Poor Mans Caviar
- Cottage Cheese Salad: from Russia
- Russian Meat Piroshki Recipe…
- Ossetrina pod Syrom – Sturgeon Baked with cheese recipe…
- Liver and or Hearts in Sour Cream recipe…
- Squids in tomatoes recipe…
- Rasstegai / Rasstegay pie with fish recipe
- Russian Fruit Cake recipe (Mazurka fruit cake)
- Russian Roasted Bear Recipe…
- Pryanyi Chai (Spicy Tea) Russian Style…
- Pancakes filled with cottage cheese (блин и творог)
- Khychin (Хычины) with potatoes and cheese recipe…
- Sweet-and-Sour Cabbage – Russian Style…
- Russian Zharkoye recipe…
- Moo – Cow Tongue (Говяжий Язык – beef tongue) is really a delicacy… (recipe)
- Halupki – Russian and or World Stuffed Cabbage Recipe…
- Chak Chak or Чак Чак… and or чэк-чэк оr шек-шек and even чуть-чуть…
- Sweet Potato Pie… (Recipe)
- Sbiten (сбитень, also збитень) is a Hot Russian Traditional Winter Drink…
- Salo Recipe… (Cured Pork Belly Fat)
- Medovukha Recipe; Cheap and made at home…
- Mushroom and Potato Soup from Russia…
- Poor Man’s Lazy (not a) Bulochki…
- Russian Lamb Plov! (Pilaf)
- Crumb Bars Recipe: Russian Style…
- Russian Rocks Cookies Recipe…
- Chrin Horseradish Beets…
- Skillet Black Bread n Chicken Recipe…
- Baked Pirohi or Pierogi Ukraine Style…
- Suhari Recipe – Сухари рецепт…
- Macaroni Po-flotski Recipe or Navy Noodles…
- Simple Farm Grilled Carp Recipe in Russia…
- Beet patties…
- Russian Sausage…
- Russian Sauerkraut
- Potato Knish or Kinishes…
- Salmon / Fish Croquettes or Patties…
- That Blueberry Jam…
- Chebureki…
- Russian Krendl Bread…
- Non Russian chicken…
- Baranki – Russian Biscuit…
- Kharcho soup recipe…
- Crimean Apricot Cream Delight…
- Kozinaki recipe…
- Chocolate Jelly/Jello recipe…
- Gogol-Mogol recipe…
- A Pumpkin Pie Recipe…
- Cauliflower With Potatoes…
- Horseradish soup recipe…
- Apple salad with eggs recipe…
- Russian Holiday Foods…
- Christmas Piglet…
- Koliadki for Kolyadka…
- Bobalki, bobalky, babalki and or babalky…
- Kutya or Kutia…
- Prianik or Pryanik…
- Borscht Stew – Kyle Style
- Black Current Kissel…
- Ukha Fish soup
- Sour Plum Sauce – Tkemali…
- Blackbread Kvas and Okroshka!
- Salt Cucumbers! (not pickles)
- Olivier! (The Russian Potato Salad)
- Syrniki / Curd Pancakes (Russian- сырник [и])
- Ground Meat Cutlet – Russian Style!
- Russian Style Goulash…
- Pickled Mushrooms…
- Stuffed Eggs!
- Black Bread is : Oh So Good!
- Baked Fish! (Moscow Style)
- Russian Potato is a Dessert…
- You can’t feed a Russian without a Kasha…
- Cabbage with Tomatoes Stew…
- Salmon and Potato Salad… (mimoza)
- Russian Kasha (Porridge) Recipes…
- A Very Simple Kulich! (Easter Pie or Cake)
- Khachapuri (Georgian Cheese Pie or Bread)
- Kartoflyanki – Russian Style…
- Russia’s Caviar Blini…
- Delicious Carrot Salad (Korean-Style)
- Yummy Recipes For the Russian New Year…
- Lets Make Salmon Kulebyaka: A Russian Recipe…
- Crumbed Cauliflower…
- Stroganoff a Russian Favorite…
- Vegetable – Fruit Paste!
- Cheese Rolls!
- Delicious Pelmeni Recipe!
- Selyodka pod Shuboy (Dressed Herring) recipe!
- Russian Chicken Hearts, Gizzards and Livers!
- Draniki! (Potato Pancakes)
- Simply a Golubtsy!
- Russian Vinaigrette Salad!
- Chanterelle Mushrooms and Sour Cream! (Yummy)
- Russian Doughnuts: Ponchiki!
- Russia’s Brown Rice (Buckwheat groats)
- Chicken Lapsha: A Russian Noodle Soup!
- No Meat – Russian Potato Salad!
- Radish Salad!
- Russian Chuk-Chuk! (Russian Sweets)
- Cheese Rolls!
- Mushroom Cutlets!
- Щи (Schi) – Veggy Soup with Sauerkraut!
- Sour Cream Tomatoes!
- Skillet Style, Posh Squash!
- Very Simple Berry Pie!
- Simple Pancakes! (Blini)
- Worlds Easiest Apple Pie!
WtR
Russians love hot tea. If they are like my Sweetpea, she has to have a treat to go with the tea. If you go to a Russians home, they will set out tea and a plate of biscuits as they call them. A babushka will most likely have these round powdered sugar delights waiting for the guest to come. They are perfect for that hot drink, for they are a very dry cookie and made for hot tea and catching up on all the latest news…
Russian Tea Cakes: also called Russian Biscuits…
Ingredients:
1 cup butter, softened at room temperature first…
1/2 cup sifted powdered sugar…
1 tsp real vanilla and or fake if that is all you have…
2-1/4 cup sifted flour…
1/4 tsp salt…
3/4 cup finely chopped walnuts, almost powdered. Or your favorite nut (don’t use any salted ones – you want plain, raw nuts. Peanuts are great for this.)
(Also enough additional powdered sugar to roll cookies in after baking…)
Lets make:
1. Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
2. Thoroughly mix the butter, sugar and vanilla. (Normal way is by hand, but you can use a mixer.)
3. Gradually mix in the flour, salt and nuts; blend just until enough to dough holds together…
4. Shape by rolling between hands into 1 inch balls…
5. Place on very lightly (very lightly), greased cookie sheet. Pam spray works and or cooking paper dry is the best…
6. Bake 10-12 minutes or until set, but not brown…
7. Remove and let cool so that you can handle them, but still warm…
8. While still warm, roll in a bowl of confectioner’s sugar to coat thoroughly. Warmth helps the sugar to stick…
9. Place on clean tray to cool completely, then roll in sugar again. They should be pure white now…
Stop! Don’t eat one yet….boil that pot of water. Grab your favorite tea and or coffee and sit on the front porch, at favorite window and or favorite reading chair and sip your tea and nibble at your cookies…
Remember they also are perfect for that guest that loves to gossip…
You know you have succeeded when you see powdered sugar lip marks on your cup edge… 😉
WtR
An incredibly daring rescue of a girl from her burning apartment was caught on camera by a stunned eyewitness who watched as a man pulled the young woman out through a window and into the property above.
The girl was sleeping in the fifth-floor of the building in Nizhnevartovsk, western Siberia, on September 22 when her cat suddenly woke her, alerting her to the blaze.
She ran to the window to call for help when her cries were answered by a 29-year-old man who leaned out and managed to pull her up the one-story gap, as firefighters prepared their ladders below.
A ladder truck is very slow to get into position. The man who saved the woman is a hero in my eyes. These are the things that happen and makes you realize that there is good in the world…
Smoke inhalation can be fatal in just seconds…
Could you pull a person up from the floor below?
WtR