Windows to Russia

Sveta and I just spent a long day getting things done. We got our two 50 liter propane bottles filled, we picked up 50 meters of rolled fencing, we talked with all the neighbors and caught up on all the gossip and we took lots of pictures of the village and the town near by. […]

Oh my goodness what a wonderful Thursday morning this was. Sveta had her green tea and I had my chicory. It was so nice to be in the village. We arrived yesterday and as always on the first day it takes forever to get everything in line. You have to go through a reversal pattern […]

Update (August 25th, 2011): Ukraine showed her face and we got what we needed to pinpoint a little closer the blockage. Windows to Russia is being blocked again in Ukraine. But we know the origination area this time. We are going to find out the bottom line before it is over… 🙂 The web gods […]

The Russian head of world chess says Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi told him in a telephone call that he was in Tripoli and did not intend to leave the country despite an onslaught by rebels. “I am alive and healthy, I am in Tripoli and do not intend to leave Libya. Do not believe the […]

A Russian special correspondent for Izvestia newspaper has been operated on in Zintan, Libya, after a serious wound to his leg he sustained while reporting from the front line near Tripoli on August 22. He is now waiting for evacuation to Russia. After he was shot, Orkhan Dzemal had to wait for around 12 hours […]

You give Google that title and you will not find anyone saying that, but I do mean it and will say it. I hope that you can say that about where you live? I realize that I am about a month away from 5 years here in Russia. I have seen a lot but we […]

By Stephen Lendman NATO intends to get the bloodbath it wants through intensified terror bombing and low-level strafing of civilians and nonmilitary sites. No matter that it grossly violates international and constitutional law, what Washington-led member states long ago trashed. Through August 22, air operations included 19,877 sorties and 7,505 strike ones, with no elaboration […]

The most active gold contract for December delivery added 39.7 U.S. dollars, or 2.1 percent, to 1,891.9 dollars per ounce… Gold is telling us what is really happening to the American dollar… It is not gold that is worth more, it is the perceived value of the dollar that we price it at… Who would […]

Is the Senate trying to reignite the Cold War? If so, it is going about it the right way. Before departing for a five-week vacation, the Senate voted to declare Abkhazia and South Ossetia to be provinces of Georgia illegally occupied by Russian troops who must get out and return to Russia. The Senate voice […]

The appearance on camera early on Tuesday of Seif al-Islam, son and one time heir-apparent of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, appears to defy earlier claims made by the International Criminal Court and leaders of Libya’s National Transitional Council that he had been detained by rebel forces. Rebel leader Mustafa Abdel-Jalil had said on Monday that […]