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On this wonderful hot day, Boza and I took a walk and decided to find some cool spots to rest at. Well we found some good places to walk and the breeze was fantastic under the trees.
We also found an old fence, a door open that we could peek into and several other interesting sites that give you a look at Russia in the Moscow area…
Have a nice day from Boza!
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How do you like that title?
That title is on the same article that the world is spreading all over the place. At least the Western world…
I guess Medvedev needs to watch what he says and use easier to understand words for the Western press. They seem to only be able to understand a few of his words out of all the words that he says. So they plaster the airwaves with, How Medvedev agrees with America now. Here is some of what Medvedev said:
The Islamic Republic “Is getting closer to possessing the potential that in principle can be used to create a nuclear weapon.” Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has said. (potential and principle are the key words)
Medvedev also noted that having such potentials is not prohibited by the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. (That is my title :))Medvedev also has reiterated the stance that Moscow has long been pursuing: That Sanctions hardly ever lead to positive results. But, he went on, there is a point in imposing sanctions and that is sending “a signal which stimulates the negotiating process.” (What they are not for is to destroy the people?)
So “We should now be patient and resume the dialogue with Tehran as soon as possible. That is, we believe, the key goal of the new UN Security Council resolution on Iran.” the Russian president said. (Different goal than what America has!)
If diplomacy misses a chance for resuming talks with the Islamic Republic, “it would be a common failure of the entire international community.” Medvedev stressed. (Other words get off your warmonger asses and help get Iran to the discussion table!)
Meanwhile, “Iran is not acting in the best way.” the Russian leader noted. Moscow is constantly calling on Tehran to show openness and cooperate with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). He noted that the so-called Group of Six international intermediaries has an even bigger responsibility to get Iran back to the negotiation table. (Once again even though Iran is being stupid at times that gives us no excuse to let the ball drop!)
But I do not see any change of his stance incorporated in what he says. I do see that Medvedev has come out from thinking and he was just slapped in the face again by the West…
So while you look at your Big News Headlines and see that, Russia Agrees With America! Remember that there is multi-angles to everything and it is up to you as an individual to get to the real truth and the start is to quit look at the Big Press as all-knowing…
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Sometimes you come across information that make you stop and go, Say What! Russia Today just put out a video and news report that Russia is building 5000 more bomb shelters in Moscow. This will be done on a hurried time frame by 2012. I was taken aback by this and the past rolled in like a huge wave. I remembered building homes in America with special areas in the basement that could be used as a bomb shelter. I also remember the many drills at school that had to do with a nuclear attack…
It just struck me as very strange that it would be pronounced so strongly and with a haste that this will and must be done by 2012. It makes your thinking’s take off and go into high gear…
The expression “Cold War” has made a huge comeback in the news and now it seems to be invading our lives again whether we want it to be there or not…
So Windows to Russia will watch this subject and see what comes of it. Because if they are going to build 5000 bomb shelters in less than two years, then there is going to be a lot of construction going on…
Post by Kyle Keeton
Windows to Russia…
Originally posted 2008-08-25 15:55:00.
Seems Russia has a few slaps back in the American face that may hurt….
1. Moscow may respond at the UN Security Council, where it can put obstacles on the way of US intentions to punish Iran for its nuclear ambition.
2. All anti-terrorist programs, the struggle against drug mafia, Syria, Venezuela and Hamas can be added on the list too.
3. Russians may stop their cooperation with the USA, with the cooperation in the energy industry.
4. The USA needs to obtain Russia’s help in the endeavor to make Iran and North Korea shut down their nuclear programs.
5. Russia started the shipments of first components of its very effective S-300 missile system to Iran. Russia is in the deals now with India for missiles to arm India’s new submarines. Russia is also working on Arms deals with Syria, Jordon and Venezuela on arms deals.
6. Russia may complicate USA’s and NATO’s supply of the coalition in Afghanistan In April, Moscow gave France and Germany a right to transit non-combatant cargoes via Russia.
7. Russia is capable of blocking any sanctions at the UN Security Council.
8. Moscow can also pull out from a number of treaties, including the one signed with the USA about the liquidation of short and smaller range missiles after the expiry of START-1 Treaty in 2009.
9. The USA would hardly prefer Moscow disposing of its dollar assets. Moscow has already started the actions to sell Russian crude for rubles, which would obviously affect long-term dollar positions.
10. Can you think of any more?
Kyle & Svet
comments always welcome.
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I woke up this morning and fired up the computer. I was greeted with an onslaught of disgusting comments and e-mails that centered around the Russia and America Spy issue. I have spent almost 2 hours going through all these comments and e-mails. The spam and cussing filters work really good by the way. I wanted to save the ones that at least tried to comment…
I have expressed interest in this spy bull because it involves Russia. If I lived somewhere else in the world, I would have cared less about Russian spies in America. If I was in America I would have cared less about Russian spies in America. I most likely would have never written about it…
What I would be writing about if I lived in America is the Gulf Oil Lie…
I am following what is happening and I can tell you something. We are in big trouble. I have lived in Florida and I know how beautiful that the Gulf Waters can be.
The big news is being very poorly done over the Gulf Oil Lie. Example is, I just read an article by BBC and normally they are very neutral but in this case it was a text book cover up article. It was a hunky dory everything will be just peachy keen when they get that new cap in place… (How many new caps?)
One thing that bothers me and I really hope that if you are old enough, you remember, the 1979 oil disastor that spewed oil for nine months, devastated marine life and covered the Texas and Mexican coasts with gobs of crude. Florida was a long ways from that spill…
There really are strong parallels between the two spills. Like the Deepwater Horizon spill, the Ixtoc 1 spill on June 3, 1979, involved the failure of a blowout preventer device, a kind of emergency shutoff valve. In both cases, metal domes put over the well failed to stop the leaks. Also the news casts from that era are virtually identical to the news casts today. In fact if you can find some old videos from that era you will think you are listening to the newscast of today and what they say about the oil spill…
And in both cases, crews turned to something called relief wells dug horizontally through the seafloor to stop the spills, a technique that can take months.
The Ixtoc I was an exploratory well being drilled in 160 feet of water about 60 miles northwest of Ciudad del Carmen on Mexico’s Gulf coast. By comparison, the Deepwater Horizon well is in 5,000 feet deep water.
This disaster is much worse and by being in 5000 feet of water makes the Ixtoc I situation a piece of cake…
I remember the Ixtoc I incident very well. It dumped 3,000,000 barrels of oil so they say. The effects were far reaching and are still able to be found if you go look…
By my calculations Ixtoc I became a baby oil spill in comparison a long time ago. The news, BP and the Government at first was using the Ixtoc I as a comparison because they had no idea that this would ever come near that bad of a spill. That ended quickly…
Guess what? I think at least 20 million barrels (840,000,000 gallons) of oil have exploded into the Gulf and with this oil is coming some really bad other chemicals. We ourselves have put some really bad chemicals in the water on the oil.
We have just possibly killed the Gulf, can we stop it before we kill the Atlantic? The call now is that it is going to devastate the fishing all through the North end of the world.
Have you seen the videos of the wells and the dolphins that have died from the oil? Have you been looking around and trying to see what is really happening? Do you think it will? Can we stop it? Is the ground fractured at the well? Is evacuation a possibility? Why is the local news being stifled? What if the two relief wells create a bigger problem? Why are local governments being squelched? Why have state governments been pushed aside? Why is the whole damn world not there by the millions to save the planet? Can we Nuke it? Is this all on a unstable fault line in the earths crust? How many places are leaking on the Gulf floor? Have we been lied to? Do you trust the ones in Charge? …
Lots and lots of questions that need answers and I really do not think that we can answer them. But I wanna know! Now you see why I had heart attacks…
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![TVERSKAYA SQUARE, MOSCOW. At Moscow City Day c...](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/32/Dmitry_Medvedev_7_September_2008-1.jpg/300px-Dmitry_Medvedev_7_September_2008-1.jpg" "TVERSKAYA SQUARE, MOSCOW. At Moscow City Day c...")
I had a comment that expressed the desire of hoping that Russia and America will not have a set back in their relationship over this spy issue. I have analyzed this situation from multiple angles and can not see any good that has come out of spy verses spy.
It had nothing to do with good or bad, right or wrong and spy verses spy. It had to do with the timing of the whole escapades and that was an intentional deliberation. It had to do with the fact that Obama made the decision to do what he did and it was a slap in the face to Medvedev…
At first I was thinking that Obama would not have done that. That he would have either made sure that the people were arrested before Medvedev came or wait until after he left and the G-8 and G20 were over. The fact that he choose how it came down has directed even my feelings on the issue. Building a relationship with Russia was important and a decade old case of a handful of dumb spies was not important. If these spies were so important why were they not picked up one, two, three or more years ago. They never ever came close to accomplishing anything of importance…
An example of change in thoughts comes from Mayor Yury of Moscow. Now many love the Moscow Mayor and then again many dislike him greatly. But I do know that he will say what is on his mind and that causes people to have issues with him…
Now the big news in Moscow is that they will help Vietnam build subways and Moscow Mayor Yury Luzhkov said, “For Moscow, Vietnam is the first priority compared to any other countries in terms of cooperation.”
So goes Moscow, goes Russia…
Take it how you want, but believe me after being here for almost 4 years. I know that he said this for a reason and that was not to convince Vietnam to get help doing a subway. Mayor Yury Luzhkov is a powerful man in Russia and I have learned by watching, that what he expresses is thinking’s from the Kremlin. I have also picked up multiples of changes in the way the news is presenting issues with America.
Many in Russia believe that looking West is degrading to the future of the country. Many believe that Russia should be concentrating on the surrounding and East side of the world.
Truth is, Relations With America Have Gone Back to Normal. This spy issue was just a reality check for Russia…
Lets hope they prove me wrong!
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Hello,
My Wife takes fantastic pictures. Here are some of hers. They are from Moscow near where she works. She has a Monastery that she walks by on the way to work. These are pictures of that area.
Enjoy
Kyle
comments always welcome
GAZ Volga Siber:
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The Siber will be manufactured in Russia and sales will start in 2008. The vehicle’s design was adjusted to better suit Russian roads. Among these technical changes are increased road clearance and hardened suspension.
The other changes have to do with the look of the Siber. The bumper, radiator grill and lights have been redesigned. There are plans to revamp the salon.
Installation and preparation of equipment is currently under way at the GAZ production line in Nizhny Novgorod. Contracts are being signed with part suppliers. The question of partial localization of component production is being carefully considered.
New welding and assembly lines have been built. The Haden-2 painting complex has been modernized. In effect, a new factory has been built for the production of the Siber.
The first Siber cars will already be rolling off the assembly line at GAZ this summer. The Siber is being manufactured under licence from the American company Chrysler, but the engineers at Magna have made a great contribution to the implementation of the project. Canadian colleagues played a very active role in the work during virtually all the phases of the project – from procurement, setting up information systems and localizing spare parts to improving technologies, for example in the paint or welding shops on the assembly line. About 150 Canadian specialists provided direct assistance to get the Siber’s assembly plant in Nizhny Novgorod operational.
Specifications of the Volga Siber:
Basic equipment: 2-liter engine with 141hp, air conditioning, two airbags, ABS, anti-skid Traction Control System, halogen headlamps with delayed disconnection and adjustable levels of brightness, power steering, adjustable steering wheel, electric driver’s seat adjustable in six directions, stereo system with 6 speakers and amplifier, heated and folding electric mirrors and a full spare tire.
Main technical specifications: 4-cylinder in-line Chrysler engine (standard Euro 4). Displacement: 2 litre and 2.4 litre. Power: 141hp and 143hp; Torque: 188 @ 4,350 and 210 @ 4,200. Maximum speed: 200 kmph. Fuel tank capacity: 61 litres. Dimensions: clearance: 140 mm; length: 4,844 mm; width: 1.792 mm; height: 1,394 mm; volume of passenger compartment: 2,660 litres; volume of boot: 453 litres.
Kyle & Svet
comments always welcome.
About Volga Siber Project
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I really thought that America would wait a few months before they gave out the confirmation information about this spy game crap. I was hoping for the sake of relations between America and Russia. That the bragging, that is so common by America, would not slither forth for a awhile…
But it looks as though when you got a story that is headlines news for more than a day. You play it for all it is worth. Play is a good word and all this information just backs up what I have been saying. Lets read a few excerpts from The Washington Post and her latest article on this spy saga…
1. President Obama’s national security team spent weeks before the arrest of 10 Russian spies preparing for their take down and assembling a list of prisoners Moscow might be willing to trade for the agents, senior administration officials said Friday.
2. Now, with the swap on an airport tarmac in Vienna completed, the administration hopes the episode will remain a non issue between Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, treated as one of the occasional, fleeting bumps in a smooth road ahead for relations between their countries.
3. With any luck, U.S. officials indicated, it would be as if the biggest spy swap since the end of the Cold War had never happened.
4. Obama was first told about the Russian program and the long-running investigation June 11.
5. They discarded the possibility of asking Moscow for individuals with no intelligence connections, and they found that the universe of imprisoned Russians who had been accused of spying for the West was surprisingly small. (Link)
I have said several times that Medvedev is quiet and Putin has taken the limelight to pull attention away from Medvedev while Medvedev does a little soul searching.
Everyone in America has this very wrong. Russia is so different than what you believe and or led to believe. Russians have turned from the forward process that was being made in the minds and attitudes, as political wherewithal’s seems to have blended into a viable working situation…
That changed fast and it came at the sole discretion of the powers at large, the powers to be and the power wanna Be’s…
I took a long walk and did some soul searching myself about this false spy situation. This is my feelings and I really do not care if you think America was right and Russia wrong – or- America wrong and Russia right…
They were both wrong and none of this should have been news. This should have concluded behind closed doors and never should have been magnified by anyone for any reason.
This is not just a move in a chess or checker game. This time it was a move that squelched a true reset that could have bettered the world, years down the road. I have said before that Russia plays chess and America plays checkers. In checkers you have to take the jumps and capture the opponent. In chess that is never a forced issue… (Think about what I just said!)
What I see is a total and complete break down in trust between two major world powers that needed to have as solid of a footing as possible to help achieve stability in the world…
Russian press is the sounding board of the Kremlin. As the Kremlin smiles so does the press and Vice-a-Versa.
I could feel a real change starting to happen and it was prevalent coming from the Russian President. He had a good attitude toward America and truly believed that Obama was large and in Charge.
The sun was shining and the sky was clear. All the past was just our fears…
Lets look at the listed 5 excerpts above:
Number one makes clear that this was planned and was being staged for a special time and moment. So do not let the bull about “they are planning to run” dance in your brain. If that was true then pick them up NOW….
Number Two makes it clear that they did the timing on purpose and now are doing a fake damage control and steer the American people down that path of, “See we (America) have no hard feelings about all this and Russia shouldn’t either…”
Number three makes clear America is a – Cold War Junkie…
Number four is a good one. Obama knew before at least by two weeks and planned with the decade long process. Him and his advisers came up with that perfect moment in which to spring this stupid situation. Timing was on purpose…
Number 5 is my favorite one. We admit that Russia does not have jails full of America spies. Why? Well it is not because they (American spies) are not here. It is because Russia has got better things to do then spend a decade of intelligence money on following 10 buffoons, then arresting them, even after admitting that they really did nothing wrong and never ever correlated data transfers that meant anything… (Oh I forgot they also laundry money, grow up, so does the business world everyday and that is perfectly legal)
So as you can see, I really am perturbed by this. What happened was an inadmissible game that was created to shift short attention spans away from issues that really are bigger and more disturbing. It worked because the head line news was Cold War Spies and not the death of the Gulf of Mexico due to man’s stupidity…
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Svet and her mother are leaving Moscow this weekend. It seems that Svet’s son Misha is finishing up officer training and is ready to be sworn in as an officer in the Russian Military.
Misha is a student in the Moscow University and is working on a math and computer degree of some type. He has spent once a week for two years working with the Russian Military and now he is in a two month program to finish his training.
I am really not very informed on the happenings and will stay out of it for the most part. I am staying home this weekend because of the nature of what is happening and I would most likely never get by the front gate anyway. So Svet and I figured why create issue that do not need to be created…
But Grandma and Mother will not be kept from seeing Misha accomplish his goals in life. They have gotten train tickets for a 5 hour train ride out of Moscow to some remote location. They have a motel rented in the nearest large town to stay for a few nights and they are excited about the whole excursion…
Like many grandparents, Misha does no wrong in Grandma’s eyes and that is just right! Misha is the only child and is with out a doubt the “Apple of Grandmas Eye!”
I am also happy for Misha and realize that to see your dreams come true is a hard thing to do in this day and age.
So while Svet and her Mother spend the weekend being proud Grandma and Mother…
Boza and I will goof off this weekend and paint the bathroom…
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