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Medvedev just expressed in the last few weeks about this bill and endorsed the expansion of the Federal Security Service (FSB) powers. Now very quickly the Russian parliament passed a government-proposed bill expanding the powers of the Federal Security Service (FSB).

Also the Russian Deputies have now been allowed to boast of the record number of bills passed during this spring session.

As I have been saying that things have kicked back into high gear here in Russia since the Reset between America and Russia was crushed by the powers to be…

It seems like everything in Russia was set on a back burner (so to speak). The agendas were stalled to see if America was sincere about her motives…

The straw that seemed to break the camels back was when the American Administration sent Clinton on a little trip to disrupt issues in Ukraine, Georgia and several other countries. This little jaunt was a deliberate undermining of dealings that Russia had been working on in her own back yard…

Much has been going on quietly behind the scenes as we all watched the reset between America and Russia. Svetlana and I like many people in Russia had big hopes for a better relationship between two old adversaries. Was that too much to ask for? Looks like it was…

Now with the realization that America was not sincere. Mevedev has become a different person. He is still Medvedev, but now you can see something new in his eyes. Medvedev is not like Putin and would never make a great poker player. Putin’s eyes do not give him away but Medvedev’s do…

I said earlier in a post that Medvedev was a touch naive when he went to America this time. I see in his eyes that he learned something from that trip…

Windows to Russia!

• Russia May Be Wondering Who Really is in Charge in America… (windowstorussia.com)
• Yes, Russia’s Backing of Iran Sanctions Starting to Collapse… (windowstorussia.com)
• Could Putin Have a “Told You So” For Medvedev? (windowstorussia.com)
• Putin Responds to Clinton’s Repeat Performance… (windowstorussia.com)
• Truth is Relations With America Have Gone Back to Normal… (windowstorussia.com)
• You: Critics slam proposed Russian law expanding secret service powers (earthtimes.org)

Hello,

I was drinking my morning cup of coffee and reading a newspaper that my Wife brought home to me. (Yes, I can read)

There was a particular article that caught my attention because it was not typical news, like death and destruction. It was about the Children Trains that were built during the Soviet era.

The way I understand the purpose of these Railways, is that Teenagers are taught the skills of Engineering on a Train. The Children’s Railroads were started because the rail business in Russia (CCCP) has always been so large that they needed a manpower pool to get a constant supply of employees.

This is a list of the children trains in Russia still functioning!

• Chelyabinsk
• Chita
• Ekaterinburg
• Irkutsk
• Khabarovsk
• Krasnoyarsk
• Kratovo
• Kurgan
• Nizhny Novgorod
• Novomoskovsk
• Novosibirsk
• Orenburg
• Penza
• Rostov-Na-Donu
• Sankt-Petersburg
• Svobodny
• Tyumen
• Ufa
• Vladikavkaz
• Volgograd
• Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk
• Yaroslavl

Many children’s railways are still functioning in post-Soviet states and Eastern European countries. Examples include a children’s railway in Minsk, one in Yaroslavl and many other cities.“(Wikipedia)

I found this very interesting and never knew such places existed until today. I wish that I had such an opportunity when I was a teenager. I would have taken advantage of the opportunity to become a Engineer on a Train.

I keep saying that I learn something new everyday!

Kyle

comments always welcome.

Originally posted 2008-07-16 14:15:00.

Our Village. The Village: Sunrise to freedom that we go to has had another death. A 83 year old lady that I called Goat Lady died of cancer recently. It was not known until to late.

There are only about 10 people left in the village.

We found out about it through Svet’s Mother and her son Misha! They are down at the village enjoying some fresh air and sunshine.

There are only about 10 people left who live full time in the village.

Kyle & Svet

comments always welcome.

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Originally posted 2008-02-19 10:56:00.

Our Volga, Model 2410, We call her Nelly!Hello,

I was drinking my morning cup of coffee & thinking about Volga cars!

We own a Volga model 24. It is a lot like a 1960’s car from America & it is a Tank! (For lack of a better word)

We are going to do a 3 part article on the Volga Car! From model 21 to present day!

The Volga is the flagship car of the Soviet Union (and Russia) & foreign cars have almost sent the Volga to its grave…. (Some would say that would be good)

I think the Volga is one of the best cars I have ever owned!

So came back tomorrow & see part one.

Kyle

comments always welcome.

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I was drinking my morning cup of coffee here in Moscow, Russia. I was thinking about a article that I read last night before going to bed. The article is half true and misses the whole part about the involvement of America in this situation…

This article is written by one of the several half wits that work for the Western Press units that are stationed in Moscow Russia (Time in this case!).  We have these individuals that seem to love their job at slanting the facts and always conveniently remove facts that get in the way of their truth.

The article: “Is Russia’s Backing of Iran Sanctions Starting to Fray?”

Go ahead and read the article, but remember that it takes two to tangle and America has burned Russia severely these last few weeks. Take a look at some of the articles that I have been turning out over the last month or so…

• Iran Sanctions – A Deliminator…
  (windowstorussia.com)
• Looks Like Someone Thought Russia Was Getting Too Buddy Buddy…(windowstorussia.com)
• “We didn’t agree to this” – Will Russia Learn a Lesson?(windowstorussia.com)
• Putin Responds to Clinton’s Repeat Performance…(windowstorussia.com)
• Russia May Be Wondering Who Really is in Charge in America…(windowstorussia.com)
• Could Putin Have a “Told You So” For Medvedev? (windowstorussia.com)
• Truth is Relations With America Have Gone Back to Normal… (windowstorussia.com)
• Tidbit of Information for Russia’s Medvedev to Think About… (windowstorussia.com)
• Russia Says, Having the Potential For Nuclear Weapons is not Prohibited by the NNPT Treaty… (windowstorussia.com)
• Russia and Iran plus the S-300 Air Defense Systems… (windowstorussia.com)
• Moscow Building 5000 Bomb Shelters by 2012… (windowstorussia.com)
• Russia is Officially Bringing the “Caspian Sea Monster” Back too Life… (windowstorussia.com)

I have been very busy on this subject for weeks now and made it clear that from the beginning that Russia had already figured out that the USA had played games with them…

Medvedev spent some time soul searching, so to say. While Putin took the lime light for a few weeks. I am still disappointed in some of Medvedev’s decisions but I am now seeing some reality sink into his thoughts. I also truly believe that Putin has let his prodigy go on his own two feet and Medvedev by being a tad on the naive side got burned…

I have explained many times that the thoughts of what is happening in the Kremlin are expressed in subtle news reports that are released to the public. Moscow never made it a hidden agenda that if the sanctions are messed with that they would pull out of the implementation. In fact they were upset that “America and Company” decided to expand the sanctions virtually the same day they were passed…

U.S, and Obama will need to offer Russia some major rewards if he wants an even tougher stand on the nuclear issue. But with Russia now appearing to backpedal on its support for sanctions, such rewards might be necessary just to get the Kremlin to keep the promises it has already made.

No – Time Magazine – America needs to quit trying to buy her way and lead by example. Do what is correct the first time through and quit changing the rules after they are decided. The Children on a playground that try those games are always disliked by the other children…

BP stopped oil leak?
2010-07-16

Kent Wells, the Vice President of British Petroleum stated the oil spill at Deepwater Horizon was fully blocked – RIA Novosti.

The new cap was installed on July 13^th and equipped with special pipes, delivering oil to tankers. Kent Wells explained it can be said, Oil leaks into the ocean no longer.

According to the BP plan, the oil well will be cemented, its functions will be passed to the two neighbouring derricks, being installed since May.

Deepwater Horizon platform sunk near Louisiana coast on April 22^nd after the explosion in the oil well, which killed 11 persons. The U.S. administration called the incident the biggest ecology catastrophe in USA history.

Lets hope that it is stopped and now we have years of clean up to do…

Windows to Russia!

• You: Oil cap success not assured, says BP (guardian.co.uk)
• Robots start work to remove cap from oil leak (abclocal.go.com)
• Onslaught of Oil as BP Plans to Install New Plug (foxnews.com)
• BP says oil has stopped leaking into Gulf of Mexico (guardian.co.uk)
• Deepwater Horizon oil spill stopped, say BP (telegraph.co.uk)

Some interesting things are going on in Russia. Last week we talked about the building of 5000 new bomb shelters in Moscow. This week it is official and not a pipe dream, The Russian government has just commissioned the renewal of the “Caspian Sea Monster,” the legendary ground effect vehicle (GEV). Only 30 such crafts were built in the Soviet Union over two decades.

In August of 1967 an American spy satellite took sensational photographs. Above we have a video of that huge unknown machine that looked like an aircraft, some 100 meters long and about 500 tons in weight. It was flying over the Caspian Sea waters at more than 500 kilometers per hour. Pentagon analysts called this object “The Caspian Sea Monster”. It was constructed to make the Soviet Union a naval superpower. Watch the video to find out about the history of the Caspian sea monster’s construction and its rebirth today.

The rebirth of the GEV production was announced by the Alekseev design and construction bureau, which was, in the old days, the leading producer of such vehicles. According to their production branch director, Evgeny Meleshko, the bureau is working diligently on the craft. They will spend two years making the new design with the first tests scheduled to be launched in 2012.  He also said, “For our company it’s a important project, and most of our specialists will be working on it.”

GEVs are high-speed naval vehicles that fly just over the surface thanks to a high-pressure air cushion created by its wings. The first prototype with a wingspan of 37.6 meters and a hull length of about 100 meters could travel at 250 knots and had a maximum take-off weigh of 544 tons.

The Soviet Union produced several models, including one for amphibian troops transportation and a cruise missile carrier. There was also a project for a strategic GEV armed with ballistic missiles.

It makes you wonder what the plans are for now and does ballistic missiles fit the picture. Russia is big on delivery vehicles to carry their Nuclear tipped missiles…

Looks to me like the Kremlin is putting out a message…

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Soyuzmultfilm studio, 2006:
The world to a child a wonderful and complex place but a small event in their life can be a real disaster. The kindness and warmth of a child’s soul are able to perform many a miracle … Can it even revive the fish?

Music by Tchaikovsky, Brahms and Ravel.
Director: Sergei Ryabov.

Soyuzmultfilm (Russian: Союзмультфи́льм, translated as Union Animation) is a Russian animation studio based in Moscow. Over the years it has gained international attention and respect, garnering numerous awards both at home and abroad. Noted for a great variety of style, it is regarded as the most influential animation studio of the former Soviet Union. The studio has produced 1530 films during its existence.

It is currently divided into two studios: “Creative union of the “Film studio “Soyuzmultfilm” («Творческо-производственное объединение «Киностудия «Союзмультфильм») and the Soyuzmultfilm Film Fund («Фильмофонд Киностудии «Союзмультфильм»). (Link for rest of article…)

I love this video and you do not need to understand Russia because it basically is no words. Just wonderful classic music and some sound effects.

Enjoy…

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This is the kind of information that you can not make up…

Over 1,200 people have drowned across Russia in June this year (2010), including 233 between July 5 and 12. (Yes in just 7 days)

“Russia’s Emergencies Ministry is very worried by the current situation. In the last day alone, 49 people drowned, including two children,”  Quoted -Vadim Seryogin, a department head at the ministry, as saying.

“The majority of those drowned were drunk. The children died because adults simply did not look after them,” he added.

This kind of stuff just can not be made up. I swear that telling the truth about Russia is worse than trying to make a lie up about Russia. The truth is that Russians seems to have a knack for giving the news of the world a reason to point fingers at them…

Everyday in Russia is a new experience that never ends. You travel the road ways in Russia and you see thousands upon thousands of memorial markers on the side of the roads as you travel. These are from the deaths by car accidents that happen at an incredible pace in Russia.

Now we get to line the beaches with the memorials because someone gets drunk and drowns. Not just a few and once in a while but 49 in one day and 233 in a week…

I dragged a good friend out of the water in America once, as he was actually drowning in less than two feet of water. Because he decided to swim while drinking whiskey. (You can drown in very little water by the way)

I will tell it like I told him, “You better get your act together because I may not be there next time to pull your stupid Butt out of the water…”

Sorry, but this pisses me off…

Windows to Russia!

• Drunk Russians drowning due to heat wave (telegraph.co.uk)
• Russia: Where Life – and Death – is a Drinking Game (wallstreetpit.com)
• Drunk Russians drown escaping heatwave – Psychiatry / Psychology … (health.am)
• Drunk Russians drown escaping heatwave (msnbc.msn.com)
• Heatwave – and vodka – leads to 200 drownings in a single week (independent.co.uk)
• Russian deaths mount in heatwave (bbc.co.uk)
• Russia is being Beat up by Mother Nature… (windowstorussia.com)

I was drinking my morning cup of coffee and doing some thinking today.

I was thinking that I am seeing a problem that is starting to become a show of weakness for Medvedev.

This ia a problem that is causing some turmoil in Russia. The problem is the shipment of the S-300 Air Defense Systems to Iran or better yet the lack of the shipment of the S-300 Air Defense Systems…

The general consensus that seems to prevail in Russia, is to ship these missile systems that have been contracted since around 2005. They are revenue for Russia. They are contracted pre any other deals. Russia has a reputation to up hold in the arms market…

Not long ago the Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said it was up to the president to make the final decision.

So I see the facts pointing to all systems are go except one spot. That is the President of Russia. For some reason he has become the sticky point in this equation and many are trying to figure out why. What does Medvedev have to gain by turning his back on Iran?  That is a question that I hear circulating…

It all hinges now on Medvedev and from what I am seeing after the ploy was used that the new sanctions forbid the shipment of said missiles. That became mute and is now considered not correct. So everyone has simply been told that the decision is Medvedevs to make and that his decision will be final.

What are you afraid or worried about Medvedev?

Do what is correct for Russia and do it. By not doing anything Medvedev is showing indecisiveness and Russians tune in to that…

Windows to Russia!

• Report: Russia Suspends S-300 Deal With Iran (israelnationalnews.com)
• US official cites setbacks for Iran’s nuke program (seattletimes.nwsource.com)
• You: Bushehr nuclear plant construction unaffected by Iran sanctions: Russia Foreign ministry (nation.com.pk)
• Russia Says, Having the Potential For Nuclear Weapons is not Prohibited by the NNPT Treaty… (windowstorussia.com)
• Could Putin Have a “Told You So” For Medvedev? (windowstorussia.com)