Category: Russia

Russians Expect War and Are getting Ready For It…

I have talked about the shipyards that build warships running full time and about the new submarines that seem to be approved almost weekly for seaworthiness. I have talked about how Russians are gathering supplies, how the factories are running full tilt, producing anything and everything, including and storing war equipment. I have talked about how the Russians tell the western media one thing and then do something else. I have talked about how Russians do not bluff, are slow to get the picture but once they do, they will finish the issue. I have talked about how Russians give plenty of warnings, like a shot over the bow. I have talked about literally everything and even screamed at the top of my lungs, “America has to stop being the bully in the world and stop pushing a Nuclear Power around, and therefore included, all the small countries that are helpless, that we destroy left and right!”

I am done talking about the sinking of the Titanic called USA, for I have to get ready to survive, what seems to be a unstoppable occasion that is going to happen if the USA does not get some form of political stability and realization that we are “playing chicken” with a country that does not scare, fear, blink, nor understand the game of chicken. To top off all that, the citizens of Russia are behind the fact that, “War Is Coming!” (It is time for Hardtack!)

I have included an exert from a very powerful blog, a blog that has succeeded in catching many Americans eyes and Russians at the same time. This blog has been talking about Ukraine since it started and he has much inside information, information that is ignored by the main stream media…

“Social warning” from Russia: we are ready for war; are you?

One of the most striking differences between the Russian and Western media is the fact that the topic of a possible war is constantly discussed in the former and almost never in the latter. In Russia, the main news shows discuss the risks of war, as do a lot of well-known personalities, and on talk-shows this is a recurrent topic. Even Putin recently had to declare that he did not believe that a war was likely. It is as if both Russia and the West were like two trains on the same tracks, going at full speed towards each other but with one big difference: the western “train” is steaming forward with its eyes closed, while the Russian train is going forward with its eyes wide open…

Read More At: http://vineyardsaker.blogspot.ru/2015/02/social-warning-from-russia-we-are-ready.html

The Saker is correct… (http://vineyardsaker.blogspot.ru/)

I have tremendous respect for the Russian people and have become part of the society here. We all have to find our place in life and we all must find our place to settle our soul. I have found that place and having a Sveta by my side is just icing on the cake. Therefore, I have to worry about Sveta also, I have to get ready for what is coming, if my birth country fails to right the wrongs. Big issue is that I know my country and I have killed for my country. We are arrogant, stupid, and bullheaded and never seem to see the trees for the forest…

We have pushed Russia and China too far and they see no future with a country like the US and her cronies…

I will be right here in Russia, whether I have to declare asylum or not, I will stay here. I have found the place that deserves to be fought for, I fought like a demon for a country that lied to me, thousands of times, I fought and survived many battles, but I realized that we started all those wars, just like we are starting the war against Russia…

Here is my warning; If the USA keeps up with its shit against Russia! The war that starts will be brought to North America in one form or another. We will taste for the first time, what it is like to be bombed and hiding like rats in a hole.  Europe is falling apart from these facts right now and just because, “Dancing With the Stars!” is doing great and Kashardian’s ass is bigger yet, does not mean anything to a nuke tipped Russian submarine off our shores…

I have seen first hand about how humans react when they are wronged so bad that their families and homes die. They have never lost a war when they are invaded! For they never stop fighting against tyranny and the tyrant. Just look at Afghanistan, Iraq, Vietnam, Korea, and many more… (We lost them all! It takes heart to win a war!)

No more warnings from me, I have done enough to worry about my country. It is my country causing all this and the simple fact is, “I think we have gone too far, we seem to have passed the point of no return and to stop the outcome now, will take what America seems incapable of doing; ‘Apologize to everyone!'”

See, it will never happen…

Post by Kyle Keeton
Windows to Russia…

Can you image what the world would be like, if we had devoted our resources to peace and harmony, instead of death and war?

I can?

Unhackable

In Russia, created TaigaPhone – smartphone with enhanced protection from cyber-espionage. Developer – LLC “Taiga systems”, 99% owned by the head of the group of companies InfoWatch Natalya Kaspersky. Russia’s new smartphone is designed for corporate customers and will be distributed with the software product InfoWatch. Already created a prototype smartphone limited batch for testing.

– No information from the device – photos, documents, telephone conversation, the location data – can not “leak” without the user’s knowledge – says co-owner of the second “Taiga Systems” Alex Nagorny. – This is not a ready-made solution, and completely made us a device – Custom design, engineering and circuit design. The phone will be made in China.

Alex Nagorny said that their company did not develop a new operating system – it’s too expensive. Reworking platform Android, the company created its own firmware – Taiga.

– This firmware provides several levels of protection. The user may choose to disable or enable the individual components of the system. For example, you can completely disable access to the camera, or location – said Alexei Nagorny. – Or make your phone “brick”, who only knows how to call. Or even not be able to call, just to show who is calling. Access to the microphone can also be disabled. Setting controls only 1-2 buttons.

The user will still be able to download apps from the official app store Google. That’s not bad, say experts interviewed by “Izvestia”, because the main threat comes from alternative stores.

– Many users are infected with malware when downloading applications from unofficial sources, the transition to phishing links in social networks and phishing pages – said Victor Chebyshev, antivirus experts “Kaspersky Lab”. – Speaking about the official app stores, there were reported a few cases of incidents with the spread of malicious programs.

The device has a visual alarm that notifies the user if some application on his phone will try to turn on the microphone, or send a message.

Senior Systems Engineer Symantec and information security expert Oleg Shaburov said that their company has an application that allows you to control the on and off as necessary work of any application or control the transfer of data.

According to Alexei Nagorny, TaigaPhone will be virtually safe from the point of view of information leakage.

– When turning off the usual phone is in standby mode. For example, GSM-module which allows you to record your location on the base stations, while continuing to work – he said. – We have solved this problem. There is a special solution that allows you to completely turn off the phone.

Oleg Shaburov said that he had read a study on the possible activity of some modules of the smartphone when the device is turned off. In addition, any phone in the theory does not guarantee protection against hardware bookmarks.

– At household level, such hardware bookmarks you will not find. Release party mobile devices with hardware bookmarks only by governments and state organizations, – the press service of the Group IB. – That’s what they are and hardware that software to detect them will not work. To spy spetsluzhby take information from communication channels. It is easier and more convenient than infection smartphone.

According to the analyst Mobile Research Group Eldar Murtazin, the world’s handset makers are already declaring complete data protection. For example, about four months ago, the market appeared BlackPhone – European project based on Android, promising cryptographic information. According to Eldar Murtazin, build a fully protected machine is not possible. The phone is designed by Russian engineers, but assembled on foreign chips.

– When you hang the alarm on the car, you can be sure that the car does not get stolen? No. Question signaling equipment, cost, etc., – said Eldar Murtazin. – So it is in your phone. Knowing vulnerability in the chips, you can bypass the security system.

Managing Partner TMT Consulting Konstantin Ankilov said that now the world’s corporate phones are not common. Most often, the employee himself buys a phone, and the company sets him superstructure security and software applications needed for the job.

– Rugged phones are in demand in the power structures or in other organizations where there is an increased need for information security. But the main demand will be on regular phones, and leakage problems will be solved by the installation of various add-ons – says Konstantin Ankilov.

Options and cost TaigaPhone Alex Nagorny did not declare. “Taiga systems”, he said, is in talks with a number of device manufacturers about installing firmware Taiga smartphones third-party companies.

Own-branded smartphones YotaPhone («Yotafon”) produces a Russian company Yota Devices. A distinctive feature of this device – two screens (additional screen made by electronic ink technology, located on the back side of the gadget). The first model YotaPhone was released in December 2013. YotaPhone 2 appeared in December 2014.

Original: http://izvestia.ru/news/583168

Carrots – 18 rubles per kilo… (Okay; I will break one down: .291 cents per kilo and a kilo is 2.20462 lbs. = .1312 per pound…)

Bread – 11.9 rubles per loaf…

Whole chicken 1.5 kilo at 89 rubles per kilo…

Apples – 79 rubles per kilo…

Eggs – 5 rubles each… (Price sucks! Easter coming…)

Milk, 1 liter – 38 rubles…

Onions – 12 rubles per kilo…

Potatoes – 15 rubles per kilo…

And finally; Boza’s favorite food: 13.9 rubles, per 100 gram pack of Pedigree (Turkey and Chicken!)

I know it is expensive, but he is our kid and all kids deserve the best… 🙂

Post by Kyle Keeton
Windows to Russia…

PS: and microwave popcorn – 20.1 rubles per pack… Yummy with a movie…

Oladji, or oladushki, are Russian pancakes that are essentially made of flour, eggs and kefir. We have talked about the blini and that is one of the most popular Russian pancakes. But the oladushki is a thick heavy pancake and resembles American style much more than the blini…

So if you are hungry, lets make some delicious oladushki…

Ingredients…

• 8 to 9 tablespoonfuls of flour
• 1 and a 1/4 cup kefir (Link to Kefir right here)
• 1 egg
• 1 pinch of baking soda
• 1 pinch of salt

Cooking and Making…

To make oladushki, put the flour into a  mixing bowl. Amount of flour according to how thick you want the pancake dough…

Add one egg, a pinch of salt and a pinch of soda and then blend the kefir slowly into the dry mix. Beat the mixture with a wire whisk while adding the kefir, until you get a smooth creamy batter..

Take a well-heated oiled frying pan at medium temperature and use a tablespoon to add dough to the hot oil. Fry until golden brown and flip carefully to avoid splashed grease. Then fry the second side until golden brown…

An average-sized frying pan normally fits 3-4 of these pancakes. Just cook until you use all the dough up. Do not try to make huge pancakes, just about silver dollar size…

Serve with sour cream, maple syrup, honey, or your favorite fruit preserve…

Need more pancakes because the kids love them so much?

Well! Make more, the recipe is so simple…

Yummy – Yummy Yummy for your Tummy…

Windows to Russia!

• Maslenitsa 2010 in Russia! (Yummy and Fun!) (windowstorussia.com)
• Russian Tunnel: What A Great Idea! (windowstorussia.com)
• Simply News From Russia… (9/02/2010) (windowstorussia.com)
• I See Grain! Do You See Grain? Yup… (windowstorussia.com)
• Bushehr Nuclear Plant Has Been A Lot of Hardship for Russians… (windowstorussia.com)
• Never Ask A Russian is Everything OK… (windowstorussia.com)
• Ten Years, August 12, 2000 the Russian Nuclear Submarine Kursk Sank in the Barents Sea… (windowstorussia.com)
• Recipe From Russia: A Very Simple Kulich! (Easter Pie or Cake) (windowstorussia.com)
• Russians Are Really beginning To Question American Adoptions… (windowstorussia.com)

I am going to apply to make a trip to Ukraine and see the war first hand. I am in hopes that “Windows to Russia” has enough clout to get me a expense paid trip to Ukraine and see the war torn East Ukraine. This will happen sometime at the end of March. This is an opportunity that I can not pass up, or at least try to do it. They may not consider that I am important enough and since they are paying for the ride, well you know?

I already live in Russia and in Moscow, therefore the getting here part is easy. I will apply today and hopefully will be accepted to write, see, and report on what is happening in Ukraine…

«Europa objektiv» (europaobjektiv.com), being a non-government and non-commercial media project, offers the opportunity for journalists and bloggers to take part in the press tour in Donbas (Ukraine) and in Moscow (Russia).

http://europaobjektiv.com/nachrichten/nachrichten_692.html

The 5-day program includes:

Stage 1 – Moscow (2 days)

– On the first day you will be able to meet with prominent Russian political scientists, experts on Ukraine, politicians, and hear their opinions on Ukraine crisis.

– On the second day you will be able to see the exclusive video footage, photo and audio recordings captured by Russian journalists since the beginning of the Ukraine crisis, which have never been broadcasted by the western mass media. Furthermore we’ll organize the meeting with the authors of these materials. You can freely use them to create your own materials.

Stage 2 – Donbas – (2 days, by request)

– we plan to meet with representatives of Donbas militia troops

– you will be able to talk to local citizens

– authorities of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic take over security issues and the possibility of maximum freedom of movement in Donetsk. As well as in Moscow “Europa Objektiv” will make video and audio recordings, these footage’s you can also use to create your own materials.

The aim of the press tour:

– to provide exclusive video and photo materials for alternative mass media in Europe

– to enable journalists to witness the truth about the events taking place in Donbas, to communicate with the victims of the war in the East Ukraine, to make your own decision about the reasons of the war in the contemporary Europe, to show the world community the facts, that are hidden by the mass media controlled by the current U.S. administration: the bloody revolution on the Maidan in Kiev, glorification and rebirth of the fascism in Ukraine, the reasons of the rebellion of the civil population in the East Ukraine.

In addition the opportunity to make your own journalistic materials, you will be able to take a part in the shooting of the collective documentary film (optional)

that is going to be spread among US and European mass media offices and on the Internet. The documentary will consist of 1.5-2 minutes reportage’s, that will be filmed by the participants of the press tour.

Costs:

– Europa Objektiv provides accommodation in Moscow and in Donbas, and transport to and from Donbas. Participants will travel to Donbas by flying to Rostov (Russia), and then traveling by bus to Donetsk.

– All transport charges to Moscow to be paid by participants of the press tour.

Time constraints: approximately 16-22 or 23-29 of March. The dates could be discussed. Your desires will be taken into account.

Concerning participation in the press tour info@ukraine-crisis.org or sozial@ukraine-crisis.org.

Posted by http://russia-insider.com/en/2015/02/14/3487

This is a once in a lifetime opportunity for me and since I am familiar with wartime, it will be like an old glove, that you find in a box. Still fits and is soft and comfortable…

I will talk more about it later, for right now, lets see if they will accept me…

Post by Kyle Keeton
Windows to Russia…

I spent a bunch of hours right here on this blog, demanding the illegal attack against Libya, by the west, was ended and retributions made. I was very upset to say the least and the same over syria and or many other western interferences in countries sovereignty…

I am consistent in my convictions about how America treats the world…

I am now watching the massive war rage in Libya, a war that we (Western Empire) created and we fueled and we fanned. Libya is in trouble and all because we want to control the world…

Libya was the crown jewel of Africa with free top quality education from kindergarten to university, ranked 5th in the world ( USA ranks 27th ). Citizens all received monthly oil royalty checks for oil sales, free top quality health care, on and on…

Then they dumped the US petrol dollar for the gold backed Dinar and got bombed by the US of A (with a touch of NATO for show!) Now they want their country back and the U.S. is crying ISIS and wants to bomb them again, same thing happening in Iraq and syria. Different names same actors…

Why it is simple, “Look at Ukraine and you will see the epitome of America and her policies…”

Myself, I want my country to quit destroying the world and I mean it. People you have to stop the death and that means we have to get off our asses and tell the U.S. government that it is over…

I will say it for the hundredth time, “Payback is Hell!”

Post by Kyle Keeton
Windows to Russia…

I call it “Muddling / Muttering along” and it definitely is just that. It is the accolade of mutterings over the last few decades, as I have muddled along. Many have been said in contexts of mine and many more said, just to say them, as I have wandered life over many years. They fell together in a muddled mess and became this post…

Muddling / Muttering along…

Way, not only to go, and sometimes choose not only to remember, the heart, sometimes whispers, listens. We are always doing, should not do; injury should not hurt the heart, be for life, never touch the essence of life!

Time flies, time flies; life is like a drama unfolding, because too much input, but lost self…

Only when the music stops; just suddenly wakes up, everything is just a dream…

Watching autumn night after night, blowing yellow leaves, wind the blooming; Listen, autumn burst after burst, wet sorrow, playing deep thoughts…

I began to believe that autumn is a season for sad, sometimes with stray defeat dance, sometimes circled with the leaves, and sometimes can be cold with empty pillow…

Muddling / Muttering along…

Tonight was a cold night, a lonely night. I was alone for some twisted frozen time, a recall of ground called ink, pen and dedicated time to this harmonic, the surface outline those long years of quietly scattered horizon Love Zither…

I captivating, looked up and looked out the window, the night distanced getting stronger, getting stronger fades to black. Black, everything landscape barrier, as well as the hustle and bustle…

Slowly, I began to quiet down, however, the quiet is a knife, gently cut the reins, ideas, thoughts, just like a runaway horse, marching endless night, the shuttle in the memory of Hu Park, constantly stimulated since ripples. Loneliness, longing, frustration, sadness…

Huacheng Tao day, is big waves, and I, like the waves of the rocks exposed on the surface, despite the flooding, despite beating…

Muddling / Muttering along…

I had not the heart to recall the past, because of its birth painlessly, heart pain, but also hurt, you, but when the stroke of midnight, breaking the boundaries of today and tomorrow, I still, as always, secretly, hidden in the crevices of time, inside…

Since then, the memory will be like a dike, as unstoppable, hit me, and I can only hide under the bed cover, will wipe the tears drop and drop, will erase the memory over and over, and then wait for the tears to dry, fall asleep, dare to bare sweet smile in the moon’s clear Hui…

But in a battle with the tears, and who do not know, except for the wet cool pillow…

Perhaps many people will tell me, who have been passed, will not come back, trying to forget it. In fact, you have to know, I want to forget, to abandon some heartbreaking clouds, but who can understand the kind of thing you want desperately to forget, but it is the most difficult to forget…

Because whenever I wanted desperately to forget, only desperately think, in order to determine, their own can not breathe the oxygen so freely available…

Muddling / Muttering along…

Some things, if reached into the bone marrow, will become a deep rub some indelible mark on the soul, such as feelings, beliefs, and even a habit, and you are, I successfully reached the bone marrow, soft in my soul, becomes a memorable, but when I’m with you, wander in the happy times. The prosecution said, a happy days, when you actually walked away, leaving me alone to that lonely place…

When you are gone, How hurry, even waving to you did not give me time to leave. When I look back, you are already in the ends of the earth to greet me, and I, except to say “bless you” actually no longer find other words. For those cruel, those suffering, those thoughts, It can only be hidden under the mask of life, in front of friends and family, laugh before…

Some memories, looking at the time seem to have been dispersed to the end of the years, and already know the direction, in fact, it has become poison your soul, doomed in every sleepless night, so you Heart-breakers…

Muddling / Muttering along…

But I also know that a lot of things, in fact, God has given us, to arrange for a road test, if you can pass the test, then you can gradually abundance of his life, before being finally able to break the cocoon and fly. If you can not pass the test, then you are doomed to stay in the dark edges, can only ever be bound like a cocoon. Now hovering just below the leaves, it knows that it returns to Mother Earth autumn day, it knows its roots in autumn day, so even if there are ten million sadness on the tree, it is still falling down…

Life is like this, some people, he (she) is silly crazy from the start, meaning to love you, make you think he rushed for you, so you think you can bet her life. But when you and she really came together, in the years after the storm wash over each other, all the freshness are faded after only a dull, how many people can no longer break up…

Everyone said, time is a ruthless manipulator, it is not just our lives away and brought our own efforts to pursue happiness come away, the most detestable is reluctant to take it from memory. I say the time is good, it gives us a parting, will bring us together; it brings us pain, will bring us grown up; it gives us a passing, to bring us true love…

Muddling / Muttering along…

Just think, should the time, to find a time, when we do not love each other, not to take away from us the other side, those two people will live how sad day. One does not love his own people, but abruptly left in his side, although together, but live in the heart of the body in the right close horizon of life. If you really like this, then I would rather her time away from me, rather late at night a man broke our hearts, we must let go of her hand and let them find their own happiness. If so, we can also as friends, but their hearts are in the body in the horizon, right close, care for one another, bless each other…

In fact, life in this way, in life there are too many passing, passing some of these amazing, some gentle, some clever, some virtuous, some good, some elegant . We inevitably because of a careless throbbing , it will be stuck in a whirlpool owns life, but not in themselves…

We are not saints, so that a spiritual life, full of ups and downs, salty doomed. We are not saints, they can not read a feather floating in the air, and only in years of his life, after a lifetime of ups and downs in the grinding and erosion, it can be their own experience of mellow and mild. So please cherish, to bring us all the time, including sadness, including the difficulties, but also those who give us hard heart passing…

Muddling / Muttering along…

Do not schedule too full of life, life is not designed to be too crowded. Many also wanes, there were seasons, people have sorrow and joy, a lot of things, a lot of the time, do not like, does not mean, do not hit, always inadvertently, we will work with rough, bump, and sometimes even avoid the less. Love and impermanence, desolate dead, left in the heart of the past, although it is difficult to erase the hurt, can it be our longing for the stars…

To no longer confused, then please give the mind a window to let you through the vicissitudes, to see life in all the scavengers, and then as a future treasure, intentions to collection, in time becomes four precipitation overflow fragrance.

Autumn wind is constantly blowing, autumn has also continued to name, his thoughts ran to the tired, but those lonely, longing, frustration, sadness … storms formed gradually subsided, and I like the experience after this brief period of erosion, a natural disposition to become a little indifferent up.

As sad as being an unhappy pillow, Half – Half sad joy…

Muddling / Muttering along…

Post by Kyle Keeton
Windows to Russia…

Last night I was sent an e-mail it was from someone who had never sent me one, but they are a consistent reader. It is good and it talks about what I am seeing springing up all over the world.

The awakening…

Why is it that we only find these types (your type on Windows to Russia) of articles on blogs and other foreign news agencies. What happened to the west? Is that not sort of paradoxical? Should we not find these facts in America, the bastion of “democracy, freedom, and tongue in cheek human rights etc.”

The majority of the worlds international writers are westerners and yet I have never seen one on the BBC or CNN or any other. Only western declared terrorists news organizations, such as RT, PressTV and many others, run such truth!

Remember this?

“It’s really 19th century behavior in the 21st century, you just don’t invade another country on phony pretexts in order to assert your interests.” (Secretary of State, John Kerry, “Meet the Press”, 2nd March 2014.)

Is this not the ultimate in supreme hypocrisy? A country which has intervened hundreds of times and invaded dozens and dozens of countries, can field a war criminal like Kerry spreading this slop. Has he forgotten the machine gunning of innocent Vietnamese farmers from his gunship on the Mekog River?

I’ll bet one can still smell napalm on his hands. Simply Google American intervention and be sure you are sitting down…

Cheers and a cup of coffee!

Hmm, someone else gets it and that makes me smile…

I’m sipping that coffee right now…

Post by Kyle Keeton
Windows to Russia…

I was drinking my morning cup of coffee & thinking about pancakes while having breakfast with my wife. I have watched my wife enjoy Crêpes filled with raspberry jam & cottage cheese and or many other tasty delights, inside those Russian blini as the crêpes are called here…

You see in Russia, I many issues with food items (names & procedures)! I am a certified Chef, so I have learned a whole different world of cooking than what I see in Russia!

Several examples of my misconceptions that are stuck in my head, are these below:

Pancakes: A type of flat bread prepared from a sweet batter that is cooked on a hot griddle or in a frying pan. They exist in several variations in many different local cuisines. Most pancakes are quick breads, although some are also made using a yeast-raised or fermented batter. Pancakes are many times served with Butter & Maple Syrup!

Crêpe: (pronounced /ˈkreɪp/, French IPA: [kʀɛp]) is a type of very thin cooked pancake usually made from wheat flour. The word, like the pancake itself, is of French origin, deriving from the Latin crispa, meaning “curled”. Crêpe are served many times with fillings such as whipped cream and jellies, then rolled up.

European pancake: called Pfannkuchen or Eierpfannkuchen in German, Palatschinken in Austrian, palacsinta in Hungarian, clătită in Romanian, palačinke in Slovenian, Serbian, Croatian and Bosnian, is thin and comparable to the French crêpe. Unlike thick American pancakes, it is filled with different types of food and can be eaten for lunch or dinner.

Therefore, I thought that I knew about pancakes, then I came to Russia to find out that Real Pancakes are non existent! McDonald’s does not even have a Pancake meal or have pancakes with their Big Breakfast! (survival has been tough in Russia 🙂 ~Sarc~) Not a drop of Maple syrup in McDonald’s? McDonald’s now does have the blini and sell us honey to dip them in… 🙂

* * * * * * * * * *

What does Russia have in place of Pancakes? Russia has Blini! What is this Blini you keep talking about?

What Is/Are Blini?

What is the definition of a blini, and what origin are they?

Blini are small, yeast-leavened, buckwheat pancakes that originally come from Russia. Classically they are served with sour cream, cottage cheese & caviar or smoked salmon.

Blinis had a somewhat ritual significance for early Slavic peoples in pre-Christian times since they were a symbol of the sun, due to their round form. They were traditionally prepared at the end of the winter to honor the rebirth of the new sun (Pancake week, or Maslenitsa). This traditionon was adopted by the Orthodox church and is carried on to the present day. Blini were once also served at wakes, to commemorate the recently deceased.

Traditional Russian blini are made with yeast batter, which is left to rise and then diluted with cold or boiling (zavarnye blini) water or milk just before baking them in the traditional Russian oven (to this day the process of cooking blini is referred to as baking in Russian, even though these days they are almost universally pan-fried, like pancakes). By Russian tradition the first blini is always destroyed while frying. Blintzes (blinchiki in Russian, considered to be a borrowed dish) are made from unyeast batter (usually made of flour, milk and eggs) and are nearly identical to French crêpes. All kinds of flour may be used for making blini: from wheat and buckwheat to oatmeal and millet, although wheat is currently by far the most popular.

Other words Pancakes that are so thin that you can read a newspaper through them & full of cottage cheese to make my wife happy! 🙂

What does this have to do with Maslenitsa?

Maslenitsa: (Russian: Ма́сленица), also known as Cheesefare Week, Butter Week, or Pancake week is a Russian religious and folk holiday. It is celebrated during the last week before Great Lent—that is, the seventh week before Pascha (Easter). Maslenitsa corresponds to the Western Christian Carnival, except that Orthodox Lent begins on a Monday instead of a Wednesday, and the Orthodox date of Easter can differ greatly from the Western Christian date…

We will eat “Pancakes all week!” (at least what Russians call pancakes)

Kyle & Svet
PS You want to know more about Maslenitsa? Watch the video!

Post by Kyle Keeton
Windows to Russia…

• Russia: Is There A Santa Claus in Russia? (windowstorussia.com)
• You can’t feed a Russian without a Kasha… (windowstorussia.com)
• Russia Christmas is Here Soon in 2011… (windowstorussia.com)
• Interview of an American Living in Russia… (Paul Eng) (windowstorussia.com)
• Happy New Year Again: The Old Russian New Year… (windowstorussia.com)

The disillusioned psycho of a country (USA) that continues to repeat the same scenario over and over and over. Has just done the totally expected and repeated, once again a familiar pattern that causes chaos all over the world. Just so that the military complex from hell can profit, grow, and kill for pleasure…

Remember a man named Mikhail Saakashvili?

He was a man whom the U.S. installed in Georgia after a color revolution, a man who attacked and murdered his own people in an attempted war against Russia, he now resides in America, and he is a man who’s wanted for questioning, whom refuses to go before a tribunal as he hides in the west. He is almost done being put on Interpol most wanted, plus he is most of all – a paid lackey for the U.S.’s escapades…

This man who literally single handily destroyed a beautiful country such as Georgia, under U.S. guidance, is now being centered to become the next president or scapegoat, of Ukraine…

Ukraine has instilled a government full of foreigners and the latest western infiltration is Sassy Saakashvili; As the new non-staff advisor to Ukraine’s president, he made this first memorial quote:

“Helping Ukraine with weapons is the top priority now,” Sassy said, as quoted by independent Kiev-based TV channel, Espreso TV. Then he went on to say, “I will coördinate the issue in the coming days.”

Therefore, this man who ate his tie as Russia was bearing down upon him, after he so blatantly tried to destroy South Ossetia and killed hundreds of Ossetians, an enclave of humans trying to just survive and be their own people…

Is now going to slide slowly into the power position within Ukraine and take over the job, in some way or another as main coördinator between Ukraine and America…

Rinse, Repeat, Rinse & Repeat…

The American way to instill love around the world…

Posted by Kyle Keeton
Windows to Russia…