Many residents of the Moscow region will receive an unexpected boost in their social status on January 1, when City Hall legally incorporates huge chunks of land as part of the Greater Moscow expansion project. Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin and Moscow Region Governor Boris Gromov will formally sign legal documents on January 1 that will automatically transform some 250,000 residents of the Moscow Region into Muscovites – a highly coveted status…
This morning over coffee I just had to express what I use for search engines in the last few months. I decided that Google was just to big and controlling. That Google has too much information on everyone in the world and it is monopolized. It just does not seem right…
I have silently switched what I use as a search engine. I now use Russia’s Yandex and China’s Baidu in 75 percent of my searches. I have been watching them become better and better at search engine results as I use them more and more…
China’s top search engine Baidu said that it had signed a partnership deal with Microsoft’s Bing search engine to offer English-language search to Baidu users. Baidu dominates China’s search engine market after Google Inc pulled out following a high-profile fallout with Beijing over censorship last year…
Yandex, Google’s Russian competitor in online searches and Internet advertising, is looking to carve itself out a bigger share in cyberspace as Google faces serious antitrust charges. They are doing it on their own..
I realized when Google played the hypocrisy game and called China down for censoring. I had to laugh at that time because Google is the king of censoring. That issue alone with Google to call the kettle black, was enough that I knew it was time to tell Google, “You are a hypocrite!” What better way is to stop using the product that they produce. Up until now that has been hard to do. But now Yandex and Baidu have opened the doors…
The picture to the right is the ground campaign for the East. The one area that Google has been unable to control is the Eastern world. Yandex is King in Russia and Baidu is King in China. The King of the West (Google) is now watching with surprised eyes as the Easter world that he has tried to conquer, is expanding into his world…
Not all success stories in the West can penetrate the Eastern market. McDonald’s, Pepsi, Coke and a few others are the exception not the norm. Most Western countries leave with their tail between their legs after trying to enter China and Russia. You have to come with an open mind and leave the holier than thou attitude behind…
The story in the West of the partnership between Baidu and Bing is interesting. Microsoft gets belittled for working with the censorship in China and Google is praised for its stand against China on censorship. Now that is hypocrisy at its capitalist best…
A year ago China’s Baidu said that they were getting 10,000,000 plus English hits a day from people trying to get search results from them in English. This prompted the partnership with Bing and Bing has smiled ever since… 🙂
Yandex is another story. This is the story that I consider the real success! Yandex is standing on its own two feet and ignoring all the Western world about how it should do what the West does. Yandex has decided to bite off one country at a time and grow at a pace that will not stress the corporate structure. The only move I saw associated with the Western world is the investment into Blekko. That allowed a foothold into the USA market…
Yandex has just moved into Turkey and Yandex has a smile that says we are going to grow, just watch and see…
So Yandex has also entered into the USA market. It has a branch in Palo Alto, California. As of June 30, 2011, they had over 3,000 full-time employees. Now that makes California smile. It is a growing company amongst the dead. Yandex has its teeth into the US and that will lead to market saturation in America, but its main goal is the East. The Western future saturation is the icing on the cake…
I looked at the internet market that is growing in the Eastern world. I have to say that it is impressive. It is largely an untouched market and has potential to easily exceed that of the Western world in just a few years. It is simply mathematics. Everyone (literally) lives on this side of the world and as infrastructures develops, so will the internet and business…
This is all fine for me as I live in Russia and watch from the outside as Google stifles the competition and tries to alter the search results to her favor. That makes sense from a competition point of view and many will say good job Google! I say bad Google! I do not like my search results messed with. When I punch in Gaddafi I want everything on Gaddafi. Not what only makes Google money…
“We have to rely on the facts and international law,” Lavrov said. “It is said (Geneva Convention) that a participant captured in an armed conflict must be treated in a certain way, and in any case, a prisoner of war must not be killed…”
Russia has criticized NATO military action in Libya, saying it has gone far beyond the stated mission to save civilian life…
And the Russian political eccentric Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, who is also head of the International Chess Federation, said the death of Colonel Gaddafi was a “tragedy” but he died as a martyr and reincarnates…
Mr. Ilyumzhinov was on a surreal mission to Tripoli in June, where he met with Colonel Gaddafi as an official mediator and played a game of chess with him. Yesterday he said in an interview with a Russian newspaper that he had spoken with the Libyan leader on the phone numerous times since. He said that Colonel Gaddafi had no fear of death: “It is a little belief in reincarnation…”
Sveta and I were just in Turkey. In Turkey Gasoline is sky high in price and I really think that if Russians and Americans had to pay these prices as in Turkey then people would really riot…
Turkey uses lira as money. Gasoline is priced in lira. Price per liter (not gallon) in Turkey runs approximately 4.5 lira per liter for the cheap stuff. 1 Turkish lira = 0.539403 U.S. dollars so that means as of right now a liter of gasoline cost about $2.43 per liter. There is 3.78541178 liters per US gallon. That means a gallon of gasoline in Turkey costs = $9.21 per US gallon…
Now I see a lot of $3.30 per US gallon in America when checking the gas price charts. This changes but it looks like a good place to start. In Russia I will figure what I saw as price when I rode the taxi home from the airport. That means the price is higher than when we travel because Moscow has a higher price for fuel. I saw 21 rubles per liter in Moscow as the cheapest price.(I also saw 36 rubles for super 98 plus but we will use the lowest grade that I see available within reason. That means about 90 octane!) 21 rubles equates to $2.57 a US gallon. That is using 31 rubles per dollar for your information…
Tidbit of information: BP (British Petroleum) is always the most expensive gasoline no matter where we go. I mean it is always the most expensive. So BP is not used in figuring any gas price because it is so elevated in price over everyone else… (Russia and Turkey specifically)
So we have Russia who complains all the time about high price fuel and America who says the country will collapse at any minute because of high price fuel at $2.57 and $3.30 per gallon respectively…
Okay go ahead and say I fudge the numbers. Even if I did and you want to add 20% you will not equate to anything near Turkey pricing. But the fact is that I did not and am using prices that I see in two countries personally and take from http://gasbuddy.com/ for America…
I realize that many parts of the world pay just as much as Turkey and maybe more. I know that in England gasoline is very high. I have seen it as high as $10.00 per gallon…
The one thing that I saw in Turkey was a whole bunch of cars are using propane. Propane is 2.25 lira per liter and even without figuring it you can see why when compared to 4.5 lira per liter that propane would be a viable choice. In fact because we run propane in Russia in our Volga wagon. I kept telling Sveta smell that? She would say, No! Then we would walk some more and I would say smell that? She would say, No! Then I would say that is right because they are all burning propane in their cars. Sveta would then smile as she was thinking of our Sammy the Volga just as I was at that moment…
I saw that in Turkey cars were not dual fuel but propane only. In fact where the gasoline fill normally is. Open the flap and you will find a propane fill valve. I also did not see any reason to say that high gasoline price is the death of an economy. Turkey has an active economy to say the least but in America the whole world falls apart with high fuel prices. Turkey has adapted: They walk more, they use mass transit, they use solar panels to heat water, they conserve, conserve and conserve some more. That word conserve is the big one… 🙂
Last night I received a slew of comments on the e-mail system. I expected to be slandered all over the place as I usually am. I had in mind just to delete them all and say Oops…
I was wrong and totally amazed at the compassion and sadness at the way Gaddafi was treated in his final minutes…
Many cried…
Many worried…
Many were angry along with that sadness…
Here is one I received:
The silence is Deafening. I wonder if anyone will ever end that silence? Fairness, Justice and Freedom have become Dirty Words.
Every human being knows in their hearts and in their minds that something is terribly wrong in the world. You don’t even have the Freedom to Speak Out, or even Question what you see anymore. For without doing those, you all give them your Consent. Events have evolved outside the Control of the Individual, whom is now powerless to do anything but Watch.
So remember those Dirty Words. They Died Forever Today.
Mike
The one thing that was common with them all was the fact that we (West) were suppose to be happy about this occasion and many seemed taken back by it all. It was if a realization slammed home to millions and millions of people all at the same time, Law and Order is gone from the world agenda. Democracy and the Rule of Law no longer go hand in hand…
Not a single derogatory comment was sent to me. Not a single, “I hate you or you should die.” comment was spat my way…
No one will ever contend that Gaddafi was a saint but when he was killed it was with a gasp from the people in the world. We have been told from day one that Gaddafi was to be held accounted for his crimes. We believed that and even though we all knew it would be his death. We all expected him to be brought to trial and then everything that Gaddafi had knowledge of would be put on the table. Good or bad for the Western world we did not care, We only knew that Gaddafi had information that can put light on much corruption in the world…
We wanted an ending to why the West stuck its nose into Libya. We want why months before all this started he was met with open arms and hugged by all of our great pathetic leaders. We wanted real answers and those answers would come by a court system that was prided on being the Rule of Law…
We were told that this was not about killing Gaddafi…
I have to put a statement by Lew Rockwell in at this time:
It wasn’t only Hillary, Obama, Bush, and the rest of the power elite that cheered the murder of Gaddafi today. CNN showed the tape of his being beaten bloody before he was shot in the head, again and again and again, for our delectation. It was a tribal killing, ordered by the US, and savored by the establishment as well as the perps. He was a dictator, but more so than Obama? More so than the fundamentalists the US has brought to power, so as to cause chaos? As in Iraq, ethnic and religious minorities may look back on the dictator’s rule as a golden age. This isn’t a bunch of classical liberals who’ve come to power. Certainly anything that has Hillary–who looks more and more like one of the Three Witches every day–chortling over blood and scheming for more, can’t be good news. Lew Rockwell
As I have said before. The West has no respect for the rest of the world. Just look at Libya now. Look at what we considered a proper choice to run Libya. May God help us for stepping where we should never have gone…
I want to thank all for the e-mails I got. They were heart warming and gave me hope that people are really good inside after all. It looks like we have created another Martyr out of Gaddafi just like we did out of Ben laden. We truly are ignominious…
Kyle Keeton
Windows to Russia!
PS: President Barack Obama hailed the lifting of the “dark tyranny” over Libya after the new government confirmed Muammar Gaddafi had been killed, issuing a warning to other dictators in the Middle East – and particularly Syria – that they could be next…
Sick world we live in. Gaddafi shot up by a NATO/American Predator drone. Captured alive which was a miracle in itself. Then executed in the back of a truck after being paraded around with his legs shot up and such. A bullet in the temple! That will kill you every time…
The story has changed so many times but the correct one was out for a awhile and then the Western media clamped down and modified. On this side of the world I watched a video that was not altered. They have done their best to pull the picture of Gaddafi with a gunshot to the temple. They (NTC) admitted to executing Gaddafi…
Have you watched the videos of his capture? (Even the altered versions!) Take a good look! That is your new Libya and the people in charge in Libya. Those are the people that the West has supported to be Libya’s new democracy…
I guess it, takes one to know one…
Kyle
Windows to Russia!
PS: I got to say that our great Western leaders are gloating over his death. They smile and brag. Maybe you should stop and think about what Obama and company are saying…
I myself say: “So American foreign policy now depends on drones, assassination and summary execution. So the question becomes: Was getting rid of Gaddafi worth giving up on the rule of law? :(”
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year… (Sic)
Kyle Keeton
PS: Video that tells it like it is from RT…
Now this next video you have gotta find disgust at. This is our government in joy. Hillary Clinton is so proud and laughing. I have never laughed at a death of anyone. For no one deserves that. NO ONE…
Sirte is devastated as much of Libya is destroyed…
Just look at the picture and tell me no civilians died in that city. Tell me please and really please come and say it to my face. I really want to see what a true sick idiot looks like. Look at the telephone polls along the streets. Looks at the buildings, that is what a tank does at point blank. That is what a Howitzer does to a building. That is what you do to a city when you only care about killing, anything and everything in that city…
That is some serious fire power and I see the mark of 30mm chain gun from helicopters all over the place. My God, we wanted him dead so bad that we tried to mow a whole city down to get him and did not care how many we killed…
I write this with tears in my eyes. I once walked down a street that looked like this. It was many many years ago, But that walk was before they picked up all the bodies as they have done here. That is how I know what kind of country America is and that is why I cry…
Do you realize how many people we killed, once again in the name of humanity and democracy?
God Bless the people of Libya and you can not say that they did not go out fighting. Just look at the picture that is a fight that included the inhabitants of that city fighting for their life against someone bigger and stronger. That was not a hired group of men who were hired to fight for Gaddafi, for no one fights that hard unless they believe in what they fight for. The ghosts of thousands are in that picture and you should weep…
Kyle
Windows to Russia!
PS: (Emails I just received from readers) : This makes me sick to my stomach. Who may be right or wrong is not my point and how can I even go there? We have Liars wall to wall. All I am saying is this upsets me greatly. I am ashamed of being part of the human race. I pray God ends this World and quickly. Those who live by the sword can go to an eternity where that is the way. I choose a different course. I choose the Life, the Truth and the Way. Print okay but no name please! (I have to agree that it has upset me also very much. Kyle)
(Another one)
Gaddafi was a true hero. He fought to the end. If he is dead (he may not be; NTC and the NATO media have so far told so many lies); if he is indeed dead, he will go down in the books of history and in all sane minds as a great man who fought a greater evil. Like a modern Spartacus he fought against the enslavement of human beings in Africa. God bless Africa and God bless the world. (Interesting thinking. Thank you for leaving me an e-mail! Kyle)
Senior NTC military official now claims Colonel Gaddafi died of wounds suffered in capture near Sirte. Earlier NTC said Gaddafi has been captured and wounded in both legs, quoting an NTC official.
The NTC says it will provide confirmation of Gaddafi’s capture within hours.
But according to Reuters, Gaddafi was wounded and captured near Sirte upon trying to flee in a convoy which was attacked by NATO. NATO official says the Alliance is checking reports of Gadhafi’s capture.
So NATO/West parties tonight after they destroyed a country and finally got Gaddafi. But as I was told in the armed forces, “The end justifies the means!”
So dance West and dance some more! You have another trophy for your wall…
No the title is correct and just as stupid as it sounds. I then had to read as to why two American women would come all the way to Russia to do a nude protest? It seems that they are from PETA, or “People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals,” No surprise then for what they are trying to do…
Well that explains it all and also explains why in the world they would come to Russia and complain about animals being used for fur coats and such…
Sorry but here in Russia it is a whole different ballgame than in America…
It was correct that they were arrested. Americans have no right to go to another country and express that what they (country) are doing there is wrong. That is a huge issue that the world has with Americans…
So please stay home if you have no intention of coming to Russia and enjoying the scenery and sights. Russia has so much to offer that is good that issues that you think are bad are not part of the picture…
Once again I will say two things: 1. Americans need to look in the mirror before they speak about others; 2. There is lots to protest about in America, so do it in America…
I see fur coats everywhere in Russia. The Russian women and men love these fur coats. In fact one of the things that Turkey is famous for with Russians is cheap furs and leather goods. Turkey has fur and leather factories all over the place. Russians buy, buy, buy and buy some more in Turkey…
Several thoughts came to me, “If you don’t like what another country is doing? Then please stay home and be an idiot there (your home). Because we (expats) do not want you making people in other countries think we (Americans) are all really that shallow of individuals!” You must understand that real expats are not trying to change the country that they chose to live in. They love the country for what it is and how it is. That is why they are there. If they don’t like the country then they are free to leave at any time…
It is strange, I watched America get into a fever in the past over fur coats. Some like me have no problem remembering when Americans all had fur coats. I saw nothing wrong then with it and see nothing wrong now. Fur is warm and cozy. Fur saves lives in Russia where the temperature gets down to -30+ Celsius in the Winter for days at a time. I can attest to the fact that it is just plain cold and fur does the job efficiently…
Maybe those girls need to come to Moscow this Winter and do a nude protest! When it is so cold that your breath freezes as you exhale. I bet they do not strip their clothes off in that weather…
Time to go home girls…
Kyle Keeton
Windows to Russia!
PS: By the way. Google PETA on images! You will find a whole world of soft porn available…
One of the last vestiges of the reset that was instigated between Russia and the US has been pruned from the tree. The acquisition into the WTO by Russia has become a mute dangling carrot in front of Russia, now that Putin is starting to retake the helm of the ship again…
In case no one was listening. Several months ago Putin made it clear that WTO was not going to happen unless big concessions were made for the agricultural sector and car production sector. He also said that Russia will not follow WTO rules until WTO acceptance. Other words, Russia will not play the game until the rules are fair for both sides…
Yesterday the world finally realized what has been obvious for months. Medvedev made this statement:
“If we are told that we are not fit for it (WTO) for some reason, we can live without it. This is absolutely true and I am absolutely sincere,” Medvedev said.
“Everybody, and our partners in the WTO accession process should understand that our joining is not only in Russia’s interests. It is in the interests of various businesses, foreign businesses … for reasonable regulation of international trade flows. It is a two-way street,” Medvedev said.
Well thank you Medvedev! It is time that you got this destructive symbol of world stupidity out of your sights. The Western world has dangled that carrot in your eyes since you became president and used it to try to manipulate you ever since…
So now in Russia the Western wannabe’s and the so called Western experts have taken up spouting about how terrible it is that Russia has chosen to stand up and ignore the dangling carrot, instead of crawling like a child to get her treat…
All you have to do is look around you and see that Russia has shifted her gears and followed a different path. What with the strengthening of ties with Iran, North Korea, Vietnam and many others. It is clear that the Western escapades of destroying Libya and the Western continuation of lies on all subjects has really caused a turn around in the thinking’s of Russia and China…
I have people tell me that the Reset is alive and well. I have people tell me that Russia needs the West more than the West needs Russia…
I am here to tell you that the Reset died a long time ago and Russia might have backed herself into a corner in the past of needing the Western world, but Russia is working real hard to get out from under that tether of hell…
Russia can do just fine and will survive without the West and Putin knows this. That is why Putin has many many stipulations on the condition of entry into the WTO…
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