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The escalating conflict around Iran should be contained by common effort, otherwise the promising Arab Spring will grow into a “scorching Arab Summer,” says Dmitry Rogozin, Russia’s deputy prime minister and former envoy to NATO.

­“Iran is our close neighbor, just south of the Caucasus. Should anything happen to Iran, should Iran get drawn into any political or military hardships, this will be a direct threat to our national security,” stressed Rogozin.

Dmitry Rogozin, who served as Russia’s special envoy to NATO in 2008-2011, was appointed deputy prime minister by Vladimir Putin in December. On Friday he was bidding farewell to his NATO colleagues in the alliance’s headquarters in Brussels.

As for Syria, if NATO persists in interfering in its affairs, a catastrophe will be hard to avoid, said Rogozin, talking to journalists on the premises of the Russian mission to the alliance.

“The example of Libya should have cooled everybody down in matters dealing with foreign civil wars,” he said, stressing that this is his personal point of view.

“Syria must be left alone and the sides to the conflict must be assisted in breaking the stand-off and starting negotiations. No one must interfere with Syria. This is dangerous,” added Rogozin.

The West’s attempts to improve democracy in the Middle East and North Africa have resulted in Islamists coming to power. It is now up to the West to decide how comfortable they feel with neighbors who determine their politics with Sharia law, says Rogozin.

“If we add the escalating tensions around Iran to the situation in Syria and the consequences of the Libyan war, then the upcoming ‘scorching’ Arab Summer, which is following the Arab Spring, will hardly be to anyone’s taste.”

Russia’s response will make AMD ‘a waste of money’

Despite his recent promotion, Rogozin is still in charge of Russia-NATO discussions on anti-missile defense (AMD) issues.

A legal binding that the European and American missile defense systems will not target Russia has not been taken off the table, Rogozin pointed out.

“It seems strange that it is Russia who is required to show flexibility. This is not our project. If an architect is building a house, it is up to him to offer a design which would not violate property rights, area design and neighbors’ interests. So it is our US colleagues who should demonstrate miraculous flexibility to ensure that their AMD system does not violate the interests of other countries if it is to be located in Europe.”

Rogozin also called on European leaders to stop being “political puppets” in the AMD game, adding that everyone should stand for their own interests, not for some “Atlantic solidarity.”

If Moscow’s position is ignored and the range of the US anti-missile defense system covers the European part of Russia, this will be considered a situation requiring defensive action.

“I will certainly ensure Russia will give a corresponding technical response if the AMD system endangers our national interests. This will result in the American AMD being considered a waste of money,” said Rogozin.

Russia has everything needed to annihilate any attempt “to strip” its strategic potential, he added. This also means the era of imported weapons is coming to an end.

In a farewell gesture, Rogozin said he was considering planting a tree in the alliance’s headquarters. Symbolically enough, this would be a poplar, or “topol” in Russian, which brings up associations with Russia’s modern intercontinental ballistic missiles Topol-M.

But NATO replied that planting a tree within the headquarters perimeter “is not possible,” so the tree will have to be planted nearby.

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I find it interesting and kinda sad about people that live in the US! I received several comments (Before they got removed to help save the site!) and e-mails about our new writer from China. Everyone had nothing good to say except one English teacher. Now I find it interesting that the English teacher was tolerant but many others had intolerance…

E-mail: “I Like the addition of Paul Wen. I see we have some advanced thinkers and putting togetherers over there in the Asian Motherland. 谢谢你”

(I like how my mind worked after almost 6 years in Russia. I realized that the Chinese above was спасибо (thank you in English) in Russia and I thought that was nice. Then I realized that even though she said thank you to Paul, I translated it mentally to Russian before I considered the English word…)

I am not sure that Paul will write again, now that he was insulted by rude Americans but I will ask him kindly to come back. Yes he used a translator. Yes he struggled to present the post. Yes it was from a bigger article in China. I checked it for copy content and he rewrote it sufficiently. But most of all he believes in what it says and that is what counts to me…

I can promise that people who write for me will not be insulted. Something that Americans have little knowledge of is that the rest of the world does not run around and talk higher than mighty to everyone else. Unless they are provoked and have to defend themselves. Americans are always attacking people over their shortcomings as if that is how life is suppose to be…

I myself write how I want to and I could give a damn how you see my English and in the same token, I really care about people like Paul to have a right to express themselves in any language without harassment from the peanut gallery…

I see thousands of comments all over the Western news where people try to hurt and belittle other people over there grammar and spelling. I am amazed at the verbal attacks that are presented to degrade people and half the time the attackers are worse at grammar than the attacked…

I myself have been ruthlessly attacked because I use different words or initials than what some people think should be used. I have a good example of how people/media can be cruel and hateful: I was bidding on a contract for the food service of a private school in Georgia. This school was being started by some ladies who were teachers for black children. The school was teaching Ebonics and to say that all hell broke loose is an understatement. I got involved in the middle of a language war and all I wanted to do was feed the kids a good meal. The national media took of the bandwagon and beat on Ebonics until it was a word of disgust in everyone’s eyes in America. I myself could care less what they spoke because I taught myself to communicate with others, no matter what language they use , speak or twist the dialect. I figure that it is my responsibility to accommodate people, not the people to accommodate me. But I am sure that many people will disagree with me and say that if you speak English then you must speak English properly…

That is another interesting point: The English in Britain or the UK will look an American in the eye and tell the American that they need to lean to speak proper English. I know because I have had many tell me that I do not speak English or at least proper Queens English… 🙂

Kyle Keeton
Windows to Russia!

It has snowed a little bit then it melted. It would snow a little more then it would melt. Then it would snow again and melt again. Finally it has snowed, snowed and snowed. Now the first small snows were a happiness for the Russian people. They do not get a lot of snow that they can make snowmen out of. So we were blessed with days and days of snowmen all over the city. You must understand that in a normal year it snows, but it is so bitterly cold, that the snow is unpackable into balls and such…

This year has been different, until now! Now it is snowing, snowing, snowing and it is cold outside…

I hear from friends in America that the weather has been the same up North also. Rains and more rains for Christmas…

I have to admit though that the snowmen everywhere were really cool and there was some really good snowmen and snow women. Though the little kids seemed to take just as much pleasure out of kicking a snowman to the ground when he was done, as making them…

Kyle
Windows to Russia!

For awhile Windows to Russia is going to have to run as light as possible. The volume of traffic is just way to high and we are going to have to give and take to keep her online. The servers are not able to keep up when she is fully dressed and I look at the situation like this: “The data is more important than the bling, so nothing extra and photos will be going to a minimum…”

Shear volume knocked Windows to Russia off line for a few hours today and until I get get all the pieces in place for plan C, it looks like we will have some hard bumps in the road. Plane C is what I have been trying to keep from doing and that is a dedicated or VPS server. The cost is outrageous but it looks like a shared server host can not handle the site no longer…

This is a sweet and sour situation, as we are right on that cusps of too big, but too small at the same time…

It looks like comments are going away until I can get the new server situation set up. The extra PHP functions are tearing up the server. I have brought them back and have been happy, but the load on the sever is too great. Comments always are accepted by dropping them off in contact e-mail in the above menu bar… 🙁

I will also be stripping as much code as I can out and still leave a front of a site…

This always makes life interesting…

Kyle Keeton
Windows to Russia!

I was drinking my morning cup of coffee and thought to myself how many of you know that the National tree in Russia is the White Birch? I looked over some pictures that I took and found a few good ones with birches in them…

Here is an old article about these birches…

My path yesterday took me into a beautiful White Birch forest. It was peaceful and the breeze whispered through the leaves. I had my camera so I stopped and took a picture. The Russians Love their White Birch!

The Russians drink the sap from the Birch at certain times of the year. You can find the sap being sold along the byways. The trees also produce a fruit and these fruit have been once used as the major food of the Incas. I have never had the sap yet but my Wife says that it is delicious. (Update: Yes I have had the sap now after a lot of years in Russia and it is very good. We enjoy it when the season is right!)

So this is the main tree in Russia. I can tell you that they are everywhere. When we take a trip the byways are lined with these trees.

I enjoyed my time amongst the talking Birch trees.

Kyle and Sveta
Windows to Russia!

January 2012 marks the aboriginal ceremony of the alpha of the Arab Spring, a attenuate beachcomber of political upheavals across-the-board beyond the Arab world, which stretches from North Africa to West Asia.

Four countries underwent aberrant administration changes, and one country was plunged into absolute civilian war, which led to adopted advancing intervention. Added Arab states witnessed anti-government protests of assorted scales.

It is already 2012, but the Arab Spring is still over extension and expanding, arch to ascent agitation in the Arab world.

At present, the world’s absorption is focused on Syria, which is in a awful alarming position, accustomed the afterlife of added than 5,000 people, connected blood-soaked clashes, the Syrian opposition’s able assurance to appropriate power, Arab League’s advancing intervention, and Western powers’ edgeless abnegation to admit the angary of the absolute Syrian government.

In the accomplished picture, this massive “earthquake” that appearance administration change of Arab republic countries will apparent appear to an end in Damascus. Then, its accomplished advance will acknowledgment to the apogee of acceptable geopolitical conflicts, the accomplishments agitated out by the four acceptable armament of the Arabia, Persia, Jews and Turkey will accomplish new waves, and the Iran nuclear crisis will accomplish the Middle East face a new accident of war.

Looking at Tunisia, Egypt, Libya and Yemen which accept completed their administration changes as able-bodied as countries of Bahrain, Jordan and Morocco which accept about completed their administration changes, you will see that their turbulence’s still accept not disappeared.

The new ability holders and abeyance ability holders are all adverse accepted capacity of stabilizing the political situation, ambidextrous with political enemies, rebuilding the candor and amends and convalescent people’s sedimentation and the economy.

All these capacity are added difficult and circuitous than arch followers to abolish a government. If the transformations will not be bland or even fail, the Arab association which has beggared from the absolutist backroom and entered the “dwarf era” may abatement into a “democratic chaos” featuring accepted administration changes and abeyant amusing and bread-and-butter development.

An abrupt affecting aftereffect of the Arab about-face is that: assorted Islamic political armament which accept been beneath oppressions for a continued aeon are getting pushed to the acme of the ability through open, acknowledged and autonomous procedures.

It has afflicted the capital blush of the Arab political bearings and formed a baroque “green” arena which worries or even scares the West. In fact, that is not a “backward” in Arab’s addition and secularization course, but a axis aback from the abiding boundless secularization and secularization of the regimes baffled or a acknowledgment to the acceptable culture. It is as well the accepted aspiration of the people.

Of course, all the Islamic countries accept to attending for new anchorage and acquisition new modes that could accommodate both avant-garde and acceptable elements, both the east and west and accords with their own developments. And the apple should accept a added and added absolute apperception to accord best wishes to these countries. After all, it is Arab people’s own choice.

Paul Wen: a simple Chinese that wants to say something to you Amerikas. Pardon my English and hope enjoy is in the books?

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The views of the above author are not strictly only the views of Windows to Russia. They are an independent view from an outside source that brings a better light on the world in general and Windows to Russia is pleased to have Paul Wen’s thoughts on its pages today and in the future. Content is only changed to correct a few spellings if possible as per the owner of the article. – Kyle Keeton

I had an article awhile back that expressed what was to become a forward momentum of countries switching currencies to do business with each other with. China and Russia are working with their currencies instead of $ dollars and now it is official:

Tehran has accepted Moscow’s proposal to use the ruble instead of the dollar in mutual trade payments in response to tighter U.S. sanctions imposed in January, the Asia Times newspaper reports. Breaking the news on Tuesday, the Iranian Ambassador to Russia Seyed Mahmoud Reza Sajadi said that President Dmitry Medvedev had made the offer to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad when they met during the summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization last summer…

The West forced this to happen because of the ridiculous sanctions that they keep imposing against Iran. Sanctions that are for something that Iran is not doing….

Russia is smiling because this is what Russia wants. It has not been new news for along time, that Russia wants to be a world currency and have rubles used for oil. That dream is starting to happen because of patience and a Western world that is collapsing…

Medvedev has tried to make back up with Iran after he trusted the US and past deals. This has not been an easy thing to do because Medvedev really messed up. But it looks like amends are in the works and I am starting to hear about the missile defense that was to be sold to Iran coming back on the table again…

Russia is also starting to develop a strategic reserves of oil and gas. This is the same as gold, money, silver and other currencies. Russia has figured out that oil is money just like gold and silver is. It is a finite product that has tremendous demand and that demand will only go up in the long term. Oil ultimately will become worth its “weight in gold”, as we say…

Other words oil can be bartered with…

One thing that has to happen to keep this world safe from Western aggression is that the Eastern countries have got to start realizing that they have to stick together and form a reliance to counter the West. The West will try to take the world with it as it collapses…

Kyle Keeton
Windows to Russia!

Boza and I like to walk and when it snows it is extra special for us. I love the crisp clean air as it is snowing and Boza loves to stick his nose into the snow until he gives himself a brain freeze. I call Boza my little doofus…

One thing that I love in Russia is the fact that all the moms run their kids around in sleds. Look at the third picture from the left. These sleds are everywhere and the kids are captive usually strapped down and can hardly move. The look on some of the kids faces are priceless because mom just is literally running at full speed and the kid is like a battering ram for the mom. So Boza and I stay out of their way… 🙂

Today it is snowing like crazy and the temperate is plummeting. But I decided to take some pictures as we walked today because I have not done that for awhile…

Like I said the last picture is of Boza with his nose buried in the snow. He does this so much that after awhile he starts shaking his head trying to unfreeze his brain. But just like we humans eat ice cream and get a brain freeze, Boza does not learn either…

I guess there is just too many good smells under that snow…

Kyle Keeton
Windows to Russia!

This morning over a cup of wonderful coffee and some thinking’s, I realized that America has become much worse than what I found in Russia as a police state years ago. In fact it seems that Russia has now become much less of a police state and is drifting steadily to the better everyday…

6 (six) years ago when I came to Russia I was startled by the heavily armed police everywhere. It was common place to see traffic cops with machine guns and other heavy equipment to assist in controlling traffic. I was appalled and told everyone that America would never become that bad of a police state. I was adamant that this type of existence, was just wrong and we should never have to go through conditions like this. I said you people (Russians) need to change somethings… 🙂

Well Russia has changed things and to the better…

But, it looks like I was very wrong about my freedoms and the police state issues in America, now we (USA) top the cake with the icing…

On New Year’s Eve, President Obama signed into law a bill that eliminates one of the fundamental protections of the U.S. Constitution…

This is on top of normal things like…

But it was only Federal Protective Service officers with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security who were conducting a random training operation early Tuesday morning when they surprisingly showed up at the Social Security Administration office in downtown Leesburg…

or…

Day after day we witness state agents violently beat, kidnap, and kill our brothers and sisters. Day after day we experience the state’s ever-encroaching presence in our lives. Yet we obediently sit, staring like deer caught in headlights, while politicians and bureaucrats counterfeit money to payoff their cronies then stick us and our children with the bill.

I wish that I could say that the above photos are from Russia, but that would be a lie. These pictures and thousands more available, are plastered all over the Internet of the USA police state. America has become a police state of huge proportions and everyone living in America now lives under a police state that makes what I found in Russia 6 years ago, pale in comparison…

We in America like to point fingers at Russia, China and many other countries but we have a tendency to ignore what is happening under our very nose. I am here to tell you that if you believe that you are freer in America than anywhere else in the world, then you need to do some rethinking and studying of facts. Maybe it is time to think and look outside of the border…

Kyle Keeton
Windows to Russia!

No there is no pay involved, but you have a chance to get what you have to say out to a huge network of readers. Windows to Russia is looking for a person from China that has a desire to voice an opinion about world, American, Asian and Chinese issues be they political or not…

We have a writer from Pakistan and he is using Windows to Russia as a sounding board to help get his message across to a wider American audience. Windows to Russia is looking to add writers from all over the world, but China is the next step in the growth process. Iran is the third step and that will be asked for next…

One step at a time is my motto and I do not want to bite off more than I can chew at one time… 🙂

Anyone interested in writing from China please leave a message at windowstorussia@37.com care of Kyle Keeton…

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