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Head of Iran Majlis National Security and Foreign Policy Committee says the US is not happy with the reelection of the Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s ruling party.

Pointing to recent parliamentary election in Russia which was won by Putin’s ruling party, Alaeddin Boroujerdi said on Monday that Americans do not want to see a powerful politician like Putin in power again and are trying to weaken Russia.

“The [propaganda] hype launched by the US against the opponents of its policies is among that country’s strategic programs. This is why they are unhappy to see Vladimir Putin regaining power in Russia and, therefore, they are playing old games,” Mehr News Agency quoted him as saying.

Boroujerdi said the US strategy will not bear fruit and the Americans will be the main losers of this game.

He added that casting doubt on elections in various countries is a known US policy, adding, “The most important thing for the US is to protect its illegitimate interests in different parts of the world.”

“Therefore, the US opposes any government or political structure which is outside its cycle of hegemony,” Boroujerdi said.

The ruling party of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin won Russia’s parliamentary election which was held on December 4, with 48.5 percent of the vote.

The exit poll suggested that Putin’s party will have 220 members in the 450-seat lower house of parliament, which is more than two-thirds of the seats needed to obtain constitutional majority in order to amend the constitution and even approve the impeachment of the president.

More than 100 people were detained in central Moscow in a rally against the conduct of Russia’s parliamentary elections after the election results were made public on Sunday.

Opposition parties have called the elections unfair, saying that the vote was rigged in favor of the ruling United Russia Party, which won the majority in the state Duma.

Demonstrators have demanded a repeat of parliamentary elections, with the presidential council on human rights also calling for the elections to be held once again if reports of vote-rigging are confirmed.

Putin has accused the United States of encouraging and financing protesters.

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Yesterday was spent at a new cardiologist, the snow made getting there interesting. But we got there safe and sound by our Volga car. We went to the same medical facility as I have talked about in the past, but this time we were able to sit down with the head cardiologist at the clinic. This doctor looks to be a keeper. She is really sharp and asked all the right questions to get the answers that she needed. We had all of our statistics from every visit to a cardiologist since I have been to Russia and we also had a new cardiogram done before we visited her…

On a side thought: One thing that I love about Russian businesses is the fact that you have coat checking stations in the lobbies, 90% of the time. I remember in America when that was common place. Coat and hat check.

Now back to the cardiologist. As I said everything was great with the doctor but it looks like I will have to spend a few days in the hospital sometime after the first of the year. I am needing to have a few tests run and she has specified it as mandatory. So Sveta is digging around and we will find a good hospital to perform what we need done. Since I will not use the foreign (American) hospitals in Russia due to extravagant costs, that helps narrow it down for Sveta…

One test that my cardiologist wants done soon is a Coronary angiogram. Now I have had this done four times before in America and every time I had this done I ended up with new stents. I have 6 total stents. I sensed a concern from the doctor and with the way Sveta spent half the night worrying about it, I realized that the thoughts the doctor has could be centering on stents trying to close off again. Yes I have had that happen and it is not a fun or good thing…

I have been having real issues with heart palpitations and being woke up with over a 100 beats per minute heart rate many nights…

I love this clinic that I am able to go to and I feel very lucky that I am allowed to go there. I have written about this place in the past and it is a place that I feel safe and secure to trust people with my health. This picture to the left is the front lobby and I was able to get a picture off when the lobby was clear. You see the turnstiles and that is where a grumpy guard makes sure that you have business to attend here. He would die if he had to smile and he grunts. Just my kinda guy…

Coffee and Russian Medical Care… Read this for my clinic I go to!

Lets talk money right at this point in the article. Yesterday I had a cardiogram done and visited the head of the cardiologist department. Now in America that is some high dollar stuff in anyone’s book…

In Moscow Russia it cost me 400 rubles (400 Russian rubles = 12.5884 U.S. dollars – per today’s exchange)! Yes that is total cost uninsured out of pocket expense. If I was Russian I would get it free…

Now lets talk about an hour visit to the head cardiologist. That ran 800 rubles (800 Russian rubles = 25.1768 U.S. dollars)! Yes once again that is uninsured out of pocket expense. I do understand that a Russia may also have to pay some money to see the head cardiologist as in conjunction see a regular cardiologist, though it is much less than I have to pay…

Total costs yesterday was 1200 rubles not including the best part of the whole day! Eating at the clinic cafe! Yummy and it makes my trip there worth being poked, prodded and stuck with needles. They have some of the best borsch soup around…

Talk to yourself about medical costs in America because I have my ass covered in Russia!

I also had almost all my medications changed because I am developing acclimatization to all my pills. So now I am weening from one type to another and we hope that will help make things better. Another strange thing about doctors here is that just because it is not their area they will still diagnose or fix what is wrong. Even if they have another doctor come in free and look at you…

Money is not the driving factor for a doctor in Russia and I really hope that never changes because it makes a better doctor all the way around. I am not saying that corruption is not in the medical system in Russia but I will say that for every story that you hear. I have one that will match it from America and it could actually even be worse in the corruption department with health care…

Now before 10,000 people send me e-mails that tell me I am full of poo poo! I will tell you that this is my experience and not yours. I am giving you the facts of how it is in my world and as I said up farther in the article: Talk to yourself about medical costs in America (or the world for that matter) because I have my ass covered in Russia!

An ending thought as my cup of coffee (chicory) is getting empty: Once again my American brain tells me that a Head cardiologist is a man! Wrong again she is a she, as you noticed from the above writings. I saw one male doctor yesterday and all I saw him do was sit around and pick on the women who were working. Women rule healthcare in Russia…

As Sveta would say: “That is just right!” as she would smile big and bright…

Kyle Keeton
Windows to Russia!

PS: Never fear – I keep my nitro spray always in hand and I am going to be around a long time to irritate people about how wonderful Russia really is…

Windows to Russia has had to change e-mails because of the need for tracking of e-mails that have malicious intent…

The new e-mail is windowstorussia@37.com…

It is located in the contact file as it has been for about a month now and is being welcomed well by most people. I am now receiving a lot of good e-mails (This morning I answered 15 e-mails and it was nice!) and this system allows me to block IP’s of hateful scum. It also allows me to keep a paper trail of the bad IP’s…

As always if you have something to say and it is constructive to Windows to Russia then by all means say it. If you are only looking to degrade and cause issues then do not expect an answer. File 13 and blockage is your answer…

So all those hateful e-mails on peppy200@gmail.com are never seen anymore for IP blocking and spam is eating them up like crazy. So if you want a chance to cuss at me, you are going to have to use windowstorussia@37.com…

All friends and they know who they are and are to stay on peppy200@gmail.com, for now there has been a separation of personal and Windows to Russia mail…

Next on the list is comments! They are back and after lots of studying Disqus will stay as the comment system. I have total control over who I want to comment or not. That is that and that is final. You will sign in and you will be tracked as for the past hate and racist crap, it is over and that is that and that is final…

People will be able to comment without backlash from trolls and such…

I am going to make something clear: Windows to Russia does not make any money! At best it breaks even to pay for a server and in fact it has to pay for three servers, since it gets attacked all the time. So no one is in this for making money. I literally try to beak even if we can…

Windows to Russia is a work from the heart and soul – that happens to be my heart and soul! Sveta has branched off and puts her heart and soul into several other blogs that are doing very well and one of them is a English blog. That blog is so busy that we are getting ready to have to worry about that server also. No these blogs do not make money and at best they break even…

Sveta’s English Blog: English 4 Kids

Many times I write on Windows to Russia and I am in tremendous pain and such. Having had six heart attacks and other issues have taken their toll on me and I sometimes suffer a lot. So Windows to Russia is important to me and if you come around to tell me how stupid I am, then you need to go home and whine to someone else…

Another issue that people have no idea about is that I came to Russia for three reasons: 1. Sveta 2. Because Russia is a better place than where I was and 3. I needed to get cheaper and better health care than what I was getting in America.. All reasons have panned out to be exceptionally true and my reasons for coming have not changed in over 5 years. But I have to say that number one is the main reason…

I want to thank all the readers and that group has become huge! Windows to Russia domain averages 40,000 views a day everyday, day in and day out. Sometimes more as in when we are being slaughtered and sometimes less as in server troubles. But it is very consistent and growing steadily! That is not hits but every time you come and read an article. Now you know why  a cheap server gets over loaded and that puts pressure on the bank account to keep the site online. I never dreamed that Windows to Russia would reach this level of readership…

For those that have been with us for years now, you will remember when Windows to Russia was on kylekeeton.com. Well we are now just starting to recover from that switch several years ago. Google slammed dunked me for switching domains…

So once again thank you for Reading Windows to Russia and all our other blogs. You people are why we do this…

Kyle and Sveta

In 2011, 25,000 Russian expats living abroad returned to Russia as part of the State Program on Voluntary Resettlement in Russia of Compatriots Living Abroad, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Tuesday.

He was speaking at the meeting of the heads of the Russian regions in Moscow. Lavrov also said that the number of regions which are taking part in the program, had reached 37.

The State program on Voluntary Resettlement in Russia of Compatriots Living Abroad was launched in June 2007 and is due to be completed in 2012.

I have talked about this in the past and I have also met a few Russians who used this program. I urge any Russian with a desire to come back to contact the nearest Russian Embassy about this program, no matter where you live!

It will end before you know it…

http://windowstorussia.com/russian-from-russia-do-you-want-to-come.html

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A 17th century monastery has gone on sale in Central Russia for a price lower than that of a typical one-room flat in Moscow. The monastery is equivalent to 585 square meters and would cost anyone interested about 1.7 million rubles (about $50,000). The monastery is the oldest and biggest in central Russia and has unique murals that are well preserved. While it is old and historical it has not been put on any preservation list. So it can be sold…

Sveta brought this up to me and said: “What do you think about a monastery for sell?” I looked at her and thought how cool that would be to own! She said “We can buy it, you know?” I said, “Okay!”

I doubt we would but it shows that Sveta and I think alike and we would both love to have and preserve such a wonderful old monastery and live in it happy as a bed bug…

But alas we have our own monastery at our village that needs lots of love and care. I would rather buy that one, fix it up and live in it also…

Maybe we can buy both?

Kyle Keeton
Windows to Russia!

The western news is overrun with articles on Russia right now. Most of the articles are lies and fabrications. In fact if an article has any truth, it is over shadowed by all the lies around that one sentence of truth. Why the MSM does not stop at falsifying videos, but now they are using quotes from African elections and imputing them as quotes from Russians. I really hope that Americans have more sense than to listen to the MSM in the West anymore, but I would not bet on it…

It is very obvious that the West would rather you worry about Russia or China than to care about what is happening on the home front. It is very obvious that the home front in the West is collapsing.  OWS in America makes anything happening in Russia look like child’s play. In fact I have to say that the Russian police handled everything very well and if you are being told different then look at the above paragraph and realize that you are being lied to by your press…

In Moscow it has become known that America has been giving cash to groups of people inside Russia to cause instigation. The amount of 200 to 500 rubles per person, has been all over the grapevine as the amount being paid. It is known that money is paid to anyone who promises to just show up and stand around at a rally. How does it feel to have your tax money being handed out in Russia to play games with? Okay – I know some of you think that is just great. Well I do not and I am willing to bet that a lot of Americans really have much better things to do with money than pay children and hooligans in other countries to cause issues… (Or do you?)

It seems to me that America is in need of a revamp politically. Why? Thanks for asking! The percent of people disgruntled, unhappy and wanting real political change is a lot higher in America than anywhere else in the world with the exception of parts of Europe maybe… (Oh I know, that is not what you are told by your 10:00pm local news!)

OWS in America has been going on 3 months and very bad and abusive methods to control the OWS. It is understood that more people were arrested this weekend in America over the OWS than all over Russia in total, in the same time frame. I understand that 5000+ people have been arrested in three months over OWS in America…

It is just a sick society that points fingers at other countries to distract her people from reality and pays people in other countries to stir up trouble in the political system. The world is starting to point back and that will not turn out good. Just like India’s court has indited Bush for war crimes and the Swiss forced a Bush trip cancellation due to threats of arrest for war crimes. You might not think it is any big deal but after more and more Americans are turned away from other countries then we will start to feel the pain…

Like Russians are saying now! There are lots of Americans that would take money from Russia to stir up trouble in the USA and maybe Obama needs to step down, because in America a huge percent of the population does not care for his leadership. How would America like it if Russia paid these individuals to cause issues politically. Could you imagine if Russia did to America what America does to Russia? America would go bonkers and act like a kid who had his/her candy taken away…

So while you believe all the lies about what is happening in Russia right now don’t forget to believe the truths that are really happening in the Western world right now. Without outside political games being played…

That is the part that should wake you up…

Kyle Keeton
Windows to Russia!

Tundre.mov the Trailer…

At the heart of the project two equivalent components: photos and lines from letters of the young man-nomad. We will cross the invisible border which divides the world of the people living in beat technocracy societies, and the world where every day begins with primordial live flame of a fire, and to natural cycles time it is subordinated all: work, an economy, a life. But not thought. We let’s find out, how this border dividing us is illusive, as everywhere wherever there lived the person, the thought fights in searches the answer to the most simple and complicated question: in what is meaning of the life?

The project has arisen as consequence of Alexey’s several trips in Kaninsky tundra – an ancestral lands of one of radical the small people of the Far North, nenets. An annual cycle lives here it is for ever certain territory where nomads roam after the corvine herds. Alexey has passed a part of a traditional route together with family of reindeer breeders of Barmich. The problem of the photographer has been executed. But in a way of 2 months there was something more: has arisen trust and mutual understanding. So correspondence between 20 years old man-reindeer Grisha Barmich, which dreams to become the writer, and the 40-year-old photographer has begun and lasts to these time.

Letters of Grisha as a matter of fact – the diary records fixing the most thin changes of mood and weather, existing detail in annual cycle of the nomad, reflection about mutual relations people and the universe device. To present all value the literary primary source, it is necessary to remember that «A nomadic life» – the phenomenon unique, and «an epistolary genre» – concept disappearing. Thus that speech about it goes in beginning ХХI centuries. Read More >>>

Grisha Barmich: Was born on February 26, 1985 in the village of Snopa, into the family of reindeer farmers Vasily and Paisa Barmich. Completed secondary education in Nenets Boarding Secondary School named after Anton Pyrerka in Narian-Mar. After finishing it he entered Vyborg Air-Technical School of Civil Aviation. But did not finish it and returned to the Kanin tundra. Last years roamed along with his parents – members of the agricultural cooperative. Made his literature debut in the literary miscellany of the Literature Union “Zapoliarie”. Died in Arkhangelsk on August 18, 2011…

Alexey Golubtsov: Born on 22 march 1965 in Kurgan, Western Siberia. In 1991 graduated from Hydrometeorological Institute in St.Petersburg. In 1993 a student of the Faculty of the media-photographers at the St.Petersburg Union of Journalists. In 1994 — a staff photographer of newspaper «Kurgan i Kurgantsy». From 1996 — a freelance photographer. In 2004 attended an Alexander Lapin’s Theory of Photography course. Since 2006 work with agency «FocusPictures». Web-page www.Golubtsov.com…

http://chumoteka.blogspot.com/2011/12/blog-post_07.html

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Masses of people in a dozen or so Russian cities turned out for rallies on Saturday to challenge the official results of Russia’s latest legislative elections last Sunday.

The biggest rally took place in Moscow, between approximately 14.30 and 18.00 Moscow time, in the capital’s Bolotnaya Square located across the river from the Kremlin. According to Moscow police officials, it attracted about 25 thousand people. The organizers, however, estimate the number to be more like 60 thousand.

The people who had mistakenly gathered in Revolution Square, which had initially been chosen for a venue, were politely escorted to Bolotnaya by police officers.

National Human Rights Ombudsman Vladimir Lukin praised the organization of the Moscow rally:

“I am fully satisfied. The police are very civilized. They have cleared a pedestrian passage to Bolotnaya and also laid on buses for travelling there. No brutality or irregularity anywhere in evidence. This is really good.”

According to the Voice of Russia reporter Polina Chernitsa, not every speaker appearing on the podium proved welcome on the floor:

“The speakers included newly elected opposition lawmakers from the Communists and from the Just Russia party. Some in the crowd shouted out their support, while others urged these lawmakers to leave Bolotnaya and resign.”

Former Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov even attracted catcalls, boos and whistles when he appeared on the podium.

The rally called for a recount or fresh elections and also for the resignation of the head of the National Electoral Commission Vladimir Churov. Experts believe the former request can be partially granted, and recounts at polling stations where irregularities have been found are quite possible. The fate of Vladimir Churov, however, is a more difficult issue.

We have an opinion from Russian political analyst Dr Alexei Makarkin:

“Indeed, his performance is nothing short of a catastrophe. He may be forced to resign, but not now. A total ballot recount, as was requested by the opposition, is also unlikely, because it would interfere with preparations for the next presidential elections in March. The opposition will do its utmost to contest the presidency, provided it will agree on a single candidate for the top job.”

Bolotnaya was the biggest opposition protest in many years. For the first time, the opposition showed organization and articulated demands. Russian analyst Dr Alexei Mukhin also expects the Bolotnaya rally to bear fruit:

“The rallies and marches of the 1990s, although noisy and frequent, were largely fruitless. Rallies and marches now are a productive tool of political dialogue between civil society and the government. In 2012, they are likely to become even more productive.”

Dr Makarkin sees signs of Russia’s civil society coming of age:

“The prophecies of doom and gloom have flopped. The opposition did not rush to storm the Kremlin. Nor did the police make charges, with batons or any other weapons. The opposition and the authorities appear to have learnt lessons on how to conduct a peaceful dialogue.”

Executives of the governing United Russia party, which won a convincing parliamentary majority on Sunday, have told reporters that their party supports the freedom of expression and hopes that Saturday’s rallies will receive adequate coverage in the media and the message they send will be brought home to the authorities.

There were only about 50 arrests on Saturday. All took place in the Far Eastern city of Khabarovsk, where opposition supporters rallied without having obtained an official permission to hold a rally.

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This morning with a cup of coffee I had some thinking’s going on over that great cup of coffee. The thinking’s centered around several items. One is the protests in Russia, another is the US drone in Iran, another is that Russia backs Iran on no nuclear weapons and another is the cyber troubles we had…

First thinking first: The protests in Russia are not really an interesting subject. They are the same that is going on in the USA, Middle East and all over Europe for that matter. But what I do care about is the future of Americans (Like me!) being in Russia. If the US keeps up the crap and I do mean crap, then us Americans will become even more unwanted in Russia like as in a large part of the world. Russia is getting really fed up with the political interference that is happening by the West right now in Russia. One thing that is obvious is that Russia at least is not using rubber bullets and pepper spray on everyone all over the country like America is doing. Nuff said about that crap…

Second thinking is very interesting: It seems that Americans everywhere are demanding our RQ-170 Sentinel drone back! Yes America wants the drone (that we denied at first that Iran had it), back. But why should they give it back? We invaded their territory as a spy. We (US) also refused to accept that Iran hacked our drone and brought it down in one piece. But we can not deny the fact that they have our most advanced drone and it has now already been looked over by Russia and China. Guess what America? It is too late to get it back and you should have worried about the drone before you sent it spying over Iran against their wishes. But as the comments say on all the news articles in the US, Americans think Iran has no right to keep it.. (See what I mean about Americans?)

Lets continue about Iran for another thought: Russia has made it clear that Iran is not making a nuclear weapon. Russia says that they work very closely with Iran and that there is no signs of foul play. Now in the US the response to this is that Russia is not trustworthy and is no better than Iran or China. That once again points to that better than thou attitude that Americans have about the rest of the world. It is easier to just look down our noses at the world and say we are right then to think and comprehend reality…

Last thinking today: The cyber attack that we have endured is continuing but at a controlled pace. We have basically gotten things back in line and are finding that our page views are going through the roof Lets hope that our new system can keep up. We have been discovered by another Chinese search engine called http://www.sogou.com/ and we are being slaughtered by that even, with nothing else going on. Ukraine is also back online and we are enjoying once again the audience located in Ukraine…

So as my cup of coffee is almost gone, I will wrap this article up. So everyone have a good day and enjoy the sites that we have information for you to find out a little bit more about Russia and this side of the world…

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We have kept the site online more often than not and between three rotating between three web hosts we kept it visible in half the world, at anytime. So as we learn to stop the cyber crap and bull, we are getting better…

I sit here posting and sipping that cup of coffee! I am thinking about where the attacks came from and this time I will let you guess because I am tired of telling the world how full of hypocritical crap the land of perfect enchantment is…

So it has now settled down and what started out as a massive attempt to overload the system by shear volume of hits became a game of survival when my host screamed uncle and decided that they could not handle the attack. So plan B went into effect. I switched to another host that we have set aside. Then I decided after seeing that this could become an issue real quick. Plan C was to set up another system and duplicated everything a third time…

Plan C worked and we are stable again! Other than a 24 hour period of DNS caching issues it seems to have settled in and is happy. So at one point I had three different templates from three different hosts all rotating around the web and not of least, including an ugly 404 server not found page…

It was really kinda cool…

We lost two weeks of data due to stupidity of the first host and Sveta with her amazing abilities, recovered most of that. It really helps to have an IBM Server specialist as a Wife…

Sveta and I now have a new game plan to set up for another rude crude and socially unacceptable situation like this week. The one thing about it we learn a whole bunch every time this happens and we know how to swap databases like flipping pancakes now…

It will be a few days to get all back inline again and the News site was hit the hardest in all this mess. But we kept all 22,000 posts on news and I was happy…

Thanks for everyone’s patience…

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