When Sveta and I travel, we look at everything. Well we found this beautiful Church. We think it is Orthodox…
In Russia back in the old days. The churches were all closed. They were boarded up and sometimes blown up. This church was 400 km from Moscow, so that is maybe, what saved it from being blown up?
We thought that you might like to see a church from the past. Still has paintings on the wall, but very faded. The roof is caving in slowly. There are trees growing on the roof.
If any one has a idea of what era and what religion this church is let me know. From what we see in Russia it is Orthodox.
We wish we had the money to buy it, we would fix it up and enjoy it, make a museum out of it…
You can feel God is still there, when you stand in the middle of it.
Windows to Russia!
The last Orthodox patriarch in Turkey? (cnn.com)
Post-USSR Russian Orthodox revival leads to discrimination, bigotry (secularnewsdaily.com)
Russian Orthodox Church to Attended Orthodox-Catholic Dialogue (palamas.info)
The Russian businessman Victor Bout has committed no crime according to many Russian sources…
The crime committed was by the USA Government…
The USA government agencies were happy to employ Bout’s services in the past, while now they accuse him of illegal arms deliveries.
It seems that Victor Bout was a major USA arms deliverer, prior to the invasion of Iraq. The USA lacked the sufficient number of transport planes to transfer military cargoes to the troops. So they hired people like Bout to deliver their goods…
At that time in history it was more important to deliver cargoes to the troops, than to worry about what kind of person the deliverer would be. So in effect no questions asked and money under the table…
“The Bout case is an unfriendly gesture initiated by the US and may hurt the reset of bilateral relations!” Said, Russia’s Foreign Ministry official Vladimir Kozin.
Kozin also believes that suspected arms smuggler Viktor Bout is innocent, that’s why Moscow is rendering him “firm support”.
Viktor Bout was arrested in Thailand under a USA request in the spring of 2008 which accused him of trafficking weapons. The very same thing he had done for years, for America…
Never I say Never Trust the American Government and do their dirty work. They will get you in the end, to silence you…
Windows to Russia!
Russian says Bout “ballyhoo” may hurt reset with U.S. (reuters.com)
Viktor Bout Case: “It Was the Privatization of Warfare” (emptywheel.firedoglake.com)
‘Merchant of Death’, Viktor Bout, will finally face justice (telegraph.co.uk)
Viktor Bout case: US concern over possible freedom (seattletimes.nwsource.com)
Viktor Bout moved to high-security Thai prison (sfgate.com)
Viktor Bout moved to high-security Thai prison (seattletimes.nwsource.com)
Dmitry Medvedev announced this decision in his blog. The President instructed the Government to suspend the implementation of the resolution on the motorway construction through the Khimki Forest and to conduct further public and expert discussions on the issue.
This is a very touchy situation in Russia right now. One thing that many Russians like is their forests and if you destroy them for no reason they can get a little testy…
Russians can live with the same leader forever but don’t mess with their trees. 🙂
Windows to Russia!
Majority party appeals to Medvedev over disputed highway project (rt.com)
That cup of coffee this morning was wonderful and it got me thinking about what I did to the Volga car this weekend. While in the village, I decided to do a little adjusting on our Volga and make her run better…
I had to remove one of our fuel systems to get around technical difficulties. The propane had to come off for an overhaul. Then it got hotter than the ace of spades and I never was able to finish the job…
Well this weekend I got the job done. We drove to the village on petrol and came home on gas. (petrol is gasoline and gas is propane) The difference in cost is amazing. Petrol 80 octane is 18.5 roubles right now and gas is 11.5 roubles. The difference is not as striking as many would see because we burn the cheapest petrol. Most have to spend 22+ roubles for 92 or above octane… (Our Volga burns anything… 🙂 )
But the cost of propane (gas) has not gone up in the last year and it is a wonderfully stable and clean fuel…
The only issue that I ran into was I am going to have to pick up another solenoid valve for diverting the petrol flow when I use gas. I forgot to get that part and of course it is the part that is needing replaced. It works and you just have to smack it with a screwdriver handle once in a while and tell it who is boss. 🙂
Sveta was so happy that we were purring along on propane that she is ready to go on a whole bunch more excursions all over Russia…
Russian airlines hiked up their passenger transportation by 29.8 percent to 31.168 million people in the first seven months of 2010, the press office of the Russian Federal Air Transport Agency reported today.
During the reporting period, passenger traffic climbed 35.2 percent to 80.211bn passenger-kilometers, and cargo traffic stood at 2.615bn tonne-kilometers, showing a rise of 45.8 percent.
Aeroflot – Russian Airlines alone transported 6.286m people (up 32.5 percent), and its passenger traffic equaled 19.3bn passenger-kilometers (up 38.3 percent). In July, all airlines increased the number of transported passengers by 25.7 percent to 6.601 million people, and passenger traffic rose 28.3 percent to 16.592bn passenger-kilometers.
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Russia’s inflation in the first seven months of the year was third in Europe, lower only than that in Malta and Romania, according to the Russian Federal State Statistics Service’s (Rosstat) report based on publications by Eurostat. In January-July 2010, the increase in consumer prices in Russia amounted to 4.8 percent, to 5.5 percent in Malta, and 5.4 percent in Romania. The European Union‘s average inflation stood at 1.1 percent in the reporting period.
In July alone, consumer prices went up the most in Romania (2.6 percent), Malta (0.6 percent), Bulgaria and Canada (0.5 percent). In Russia, consumer prices inched up 0.4 percent compared to June of this year. At the same time, the average inflation level slid 0.2 percent in the EU.
In the EU, the highest increase in food prices was registered in Romania, Denmark, Estonia, Latvia, and Slovenia (0.8-1.9 percent). In Russia, prices for food products edged up 0.3 percent in July compared to the previous month.
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Ukraine‘s government is poised to insist on revising existing agreements on the price of gas, Ukrainian Prime Minister Nikolai Azarov announced during the cabinet meeting today, RBC Ukraine reported. “We intend to revise the extremely unprofitable agreement between Ukraine and Russia and will strongly insist on the need for our Russian partners to do so,” Azarov explained.
The official reiterated that Kiev continued to purchase natural gas from Russia and pay in accordance with the formula that provided for a quarterly price increase. “In the first quarter of 2010, we received gas at $330 per 1,000 cubic meters and the price has gone up quarterly by $25 per 1,000 cubic meters. Consequently, the price for gas will exceed $390 per 1,000 cubic meters in the fourth quarter of this year,” Azarov stated. According to him, the signing of the so-called Kharkov agreement allowed Kiev to bring the price for gas down $100 per 1,000 cubic meters.
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Moldova‘s Prime Minister Vladimir Filat has paid a visit to the Transnistria region for the first time as the head of the Moldovan parliament. He met with leader of Transnistria Igor Smirnov and State Security Minister Vladimir Antyufeyev late on Tuesday. The country’s government reported to RBC that Filat and Smirnov discussed a wide array of issues, but noted that he would relay the contents of the conversation to journalists later. Filat and Smirnov most likely discussed matters related to the settlement of the Transnistria conflict and the improvement of trust between Chisinau and Tiraspol.
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Gazprom and Naftogaz are also discussing the possibility of a merger of the two companies, in several stages. On June 25 of this year, Miller announced that the Russian company had already made proposals on certain major gas fields that could be contributed to the joint venture.
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Moscow’s Mayor Yuri Luzhkov has approved the city’s draft budget for 2011 with a deficit exceeding RUB 100.8bn (approx. USD 3.29bn).
According to Luzhkov’s announcement at Moscow’s government meeting today, in its parameters, the document has been formed quite precisely and thoroughly. At the same time, the mayor indicated that the budget was socially-oriented, as in previous years.
The approved decree on Moscow’s budget for 2011 and the mid-term financial plan for 2011-2013 provides for a budget revenue of RUB 1.192 trillion (approx. USD 38.95bn), and expenditures of RUB 1.293 trillion (approx. USD 42.25bn). Consequently, the planned expenditures are expected to exceed revenue by RUB 100.804bn (approx. USD 3.29bn).
The financing of the projected budget deficit will be carried out by borrowing funds.
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Between August 17 and 23, consumer prices climbed 0.2 percent in Russia, the Federal State Statistics Service (Rosstat) said. For the month to August 23, inflation reached 0.6 percent, and 5.4 percent for the year to date. For reference, similar month-to-date prices grew a modest 0.2 percent in 2009, while those for the year to date reached 8.3 percent. In August 2009 as a whole, the prices showed no changes.
The people of South Ossetia have collected 13 million roubles [$ 433,000]. The money was collected by the republic‘s residents for Russians in need from the fires…
“Over 13 million roubles have been collected at the special account where citizens of the Republic of South Ossetia transact aid for aggrieved residents of Russia,” said Nugzar Gabarayev, the state adviser of the South Ossetian leader – Res.”
South Ossetia has also sent convoys of aid to Russia in an effort to express the gratitude…
I understand through the grapevine that this was very important to these people and even though they lack many necessities themselves they all gave for what they consider an important moment, that they could help the big Country of Russia… 🙂
Funny thing has happened in the last few days, Ukraine has finally admitted that they stole Gas from Russia…
Ukraine to return gas to Rosukrenergo
from Russiatoday.ru
Ukraine will return 1.3 billion cubic meters of Russiannatural gas to the Swiss-registered company Rosukrenergo, according to Ukrainian Fuel and Energy Minister Yuri Prodan.
In March Naftogas admitted siphoning gas belonging to Rosukrenergo and storing it underground. According to Ukraine’s energy minister, the gas which is to be returned comes from Central Asia and is part of this year’s allocation.
Russian gas monopoly Gazprom buys gas from Central Asia and resells it to Ukraine via RosUkrEnergo, which is the exclusive gas exporter to Ukraine. It charges just over $179 per thousand cubic meters.
Central Asian producers demanded a much higher price for their gas, from Russia, and this gas, the bulk of it, is being passed on to Ukraine. So the increasing price of central Asian gas means an automatic increase in the price of gas for Ukraine. Gazproms position has been very firm, they have said basically that ‘we need to receive all back payments for the current year, and all the debt that has accumulated so far before we can decide what the price for the next year for Ukraine is going to be.
This has been an on going problem for years. From what I have been reading Ukraine goes back for years stealing Gas! The stealing Gas is on top of owing over a billion Dollars to Russia for past Gas purchases.
Why is this allowed to happen?
Western media does not tell the true story: Ukraine has a payment track-record that makes a failing bank in the USA, a good bet, Ukraine is stealing the gas, siphoning it off, as it transits Ukraine into Western Europe.
So lets stop the stealing: Not so easy to do, the free press (sorta) of the West just doesn’t like the idea that democratic Ukraine could be anything other than on the side of the angels. The western, liberal media is so bound up in its evil anti Russian campaign, it will twist the story to bring you the news that always puts Russia in a bad light.
So it is not being allowed to happen, you just hear the side of Ukraine and see their fake Democratic tears flowing down their face while they point their finger at evil Russia!
Now Ukraine has admitted to stealing. They really are Democratic!
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Sveta and I just got back from our village. It was down right beautiful and God had smiled on the village. For you see, the fires came within less than 3 km of getting the village…
The few able bodied men that live full time in the village (that is three) plus some of the local fish farm men had a satellite system that enabled the village to pinpoint the fires. So they were able to find these fires and put them out…
According to new tales of heroic deeds in the village. These guys saved the village from certain doom. All they had was a couple of shovels and their hands to fight the fires with…
It looks like we could never had made the trip any earlier than we did because as it was we drove through km after km of burning forests on the main roads. Everywhere we went there was fire trucks and men cutting trees and spraying water. Sometimes it was 10 km or more of burned out forests and these were crown fires. The fields everywhere had huge fire breaks cut in them by the farmers and many times that is were the fire was stopped to keep it from taking the whole field. The city of Ryzan was enveloped in deep smoke as we drove through. But God was smiling on all and it started to rain and rain and rain… 🙂
The men in our village had a reason to be proud. They were able to do something that saved the village. Sveta and I were amazed this weekend. No one was drinking. The men were all sober and they were happy to be that way. They had a responsibility to protect the village and they took that seriously. They also all have jobs now with the fish farm…
Also another person has moved into the village and he is a college professor. His mother was a teacher in the village in the old days. It seems that he does not drink and is an intellect. The others find it important that they have his respect. So drinking has become a past, not a future… 🙂
Lets hope it stays that way…
The village never looked better and in the next few days I will post more pictures of what we saw.
This film has much controversy and no one can prove that it is fake or real. It was made during Soviet Era and has now surfaced. It is supposed to be part of a released KGB files from the Soviet era. I guess the files were part of what was called the KGB UFO files!
People have said that those are American jeeps but everyone forgets that many real American jeeps were given to the Soviet Union during WWII.
So Russia has allowed the release of many such files and video’s due to declassification of information.
I look at things like this with a grain of salt. I like it though and to me it reminds me of the files from America on UFOs.
I think that if it is fake then someone went to a lot of trouble to make a fake film…
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