Windows to Russia

Two more friends, colleagues and or trainees of my past have died. That makes a dozen or more in the few years… Most are dying in their 50’s, and for me, who is older than them, makes me sad. Kinda like outliving your kids. That I myself have experienced personally and hope to not outlive […]

Russia may not be known as a defender of democracy, but the capital city of Moscow is using an ethereum-based voting platform to change that. Source: Russia Is Leading the Push for Blockchain Democracy – CoinDesk The ethereum-based platform, which allows anyone to audit the open-source results, has been downloaded by more than 100 node […]

69.49 rubles was what breakfast cost… ($1.22 as of today) Two hash browns with egg and tiny pieces of ham in them. A little salt and pepper and a cup of coffee made for a wonderful breakfast at 7:30 a.m. Does it get any better? Not at almost -20 C. and walking around 9000 steps […]

The water towers in Russia are really cool… I think of them as small castles. Or better yet a lookout tower from the old days. In our Tiny Russian Village the tower is all steel, but inside of bigger villages and cities the towers are brick and or stone, even wood at times. I am […]

By Svetochka… Hello, Friday this week (Feb. 23rd, 2018) we have traditional Day of Man in Russia. It’s official name is Defender of the Fatherland Day. From my Soviet childhood I remember this day [A Day of Soviet Army and Navy Day]. This day we congratulated our men-teachers and our boys class-mate [because all men […]

Soohorang is a white tiger and Bandabi is an Asiatic black bear and they are the mascots for the 2018 Winter Olympics this time… Country Gold Silver Bronze Total Norway 11 9 8 28 Germany 10 6 4 20 Canada 6 5 6 17 Netherlands 6 5 2 13 Medal standings 19th of February, 2018… […]

I walked from about 7 a.m. till 10:30 a.m. Blood sugar got very low, so I stopped at Globus and ate breakfast… I call the theater the “Hollywood Delight” and the other image is what I bought for 139 rubles. 139 rubles is about $2.50….I could have ate cheaper by far, but when my sugar […]

New York times admits that we are a country of looney’s….simply by writing an article like this… After months of negotiations, the Russian insisted on including information about the president as part of a deal involving stolen hacking tools. Source: U.S. Spies, Seeking to Retrieve Cyberweapons, Paid Russian Peddling Trump Secrets Our democracy/republic and or […]

Soon folks soon. The bottom of the pit we fell into is coming up fast. It has been interesting, but Chaos is waiting to collect its debt and we are rushing opened armed and joyously into Chaos… So there you have it below: 13 Russians can change the history of the US and her elections, […]

I take long walks now that Boza is gone. You can see it is very cold and snowy, we live in an aerospace city and I think that the middle picture is perfect Russian big city image…. Putin for president on the billboard, orthodox church across the street, rush hour traffic and the sun coming […]