Windows to Russia

Internet usage in China rose to 485 million by the end of June this year, announced the China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC) on Tuesday. Read More >>> The USA and Russia do not even have a total population together to equal the Internet users in China. I wondered how many Internet users that IndiaContinue reading China has more Internet Users than Russia and USA have total People…

Putin has expressed several times in the last few years that joining WTO (World Trade Organization) is not worth hurting Russia over. I personally see what it has done to America and other countries. All you have to do is open your eyes and look. Putin is correct. WTO should be helpful not hurtful… DrawingContinue reading Putin Knows that Joining the WTO is a Ball and Chain…

The village trip is always a good trip for checking gas and Benzine prices. This article was triggered by an article that I just saw called: AAA’s Daily Fuel Gauge Report. I see something just short of $4 a gallon when I look at the chart right now for America. I found a propane priceContinue reading Gas (Gaz) and Benzine (Gasoline) Prices On Our Recent Village Trip…

I removed the pictures from the big camera today and I re-sized this one to fit the blog so that you do not have to click to see more. It was 5 times this big and way too big to work as a blog picture. By the way this picture was taken at 10:00 pmContinue reading Kommuna or Sunrise to Freedom a Beautiful Russian Village…

Sipping that cup of coffee this morning and doing some thinking’s. Sveta and I have to wander home now. It seems that time just flies when you have fun and in this case it seemed to accelerate just way to fast… So it is time to hit the road today and spend about 8+ hoursContinue reading Coffee and All Good Things Must End…

Being a country boy from the Midwest of America. Roads to towns or villages as Russians call them, were gravel many times. It seemed that you either had river gravel or limestone gravel as the main roads. But always the base was kept up as a crushed rock of some form… In our travels aroundContinue reading Russia the Main Roads (Highways) to Villages…

Sipping that cup of coffee this morning is always extra special in the village. You can hear the birds singing and one that stands out is the cuckoo bird. Sounds just like a cuckoo clock. We have lots of cuckoo birds around the village… It is going to be a scorcher today. It is alreadyContinue reading Coffee and a Scorcher of a Day and those Cuckoo Birds…

It seems that we finally found what works very good in the village for Internet. It is running at broadband speeds and we can even go faster if we so desire. All through a little usb modem that looks like a flash drive. It is amazing to sit in a place with no running waterContinue reading Looks like we found our Internet fix for the Village…

I would not want to be in the oil industry right now in Russia. Putin has been expressing dissatisfaction in the way the oil industry is responding to the government calls to get their (oil industry) act together… Putin noted that while oil extraction increased by as much as 28.7 percent in the past year,Continue reading Putin Asks About “The Russian People’s Oil…”

Sveta and I are getting everything together and we are going to take a trip to our village (Kommuna as it is called now or Sunrise to Freedom as known in the old days) and see what is going on. The weather has been wonderful and Sveta decided to take a week vacation and theContinue reading Our Village and that Cup of Coffee…