Hello, My Sweetie (Svet) looking great as always. We have arrived at the Dead Sea! The first site of the Dead Sea Beach. Svet and I explored the Beach and found salt, salt, salt, salt, salt and more salt! The great American Tourist. First Burger King in over two years for me, first ever for […]
So after a good night sleep and a float (hard to swim) in the Dead Sea. I plan on posting an article with pictures and all. We are staying at the Garden hotel and plan on staying 3 nights here. So stay tuned for a good post tomorrow…. Kyle & Svet comments always welcome.
Hello, We have arrived in Israel just in time for Yom Kipper a very important Jewish holiday. Yom Kippur is probably the most important holiday of the Jewish year. Many Jews who do not observe any other Jewish custom will refrain from work, fast and/or attend synagogue services on this day. Yom Kippur occurs on […]
We want to thank Blackseabrew for finding this article for us. It is a first hand account of the war that was waged on South Ossetia…. By Lira Tskhovrebova from the October 8, 2008 edition Tskhinvali, South Ossetia – In a speech before the United Nations last month, Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili implored world leaders […]
Hello, The first day in Israel was a mixture of emotions. First off we were so tired that we had to sleep for about 13 hours. It was that stressful fighting with the airports. To make a long trip short, we flew from Moscow Russia to Zürich Switzerland. Ran (literally) across one of the biggest […]
Hello, We made it and just got up from 13 hours of sleep. I think that the jet trips are hard on people. We will have a bigger post tonight about our first day in Israel…. Gotta go get my visa done, then we play.
Around 1500 people gathered in central Moscow on Saturday to commemorate those who died during a confrontation between the Russian President Boris Yeltsin and the Parliament in October 1993. It’s 15 years since the constitutional crisis almost led to civil war. Around 150 people died, including civilians as well as servicemen. Many died during clashes […]
Russia’s No.1 tennis tournament – the Kremlin Cup – starts on Saturday, featuring a moderately strong men’s draw and a women’s line-up that’s as strong than as many Grand Slam tournaments and inferior only to the seasons finals, with 16 players from the top 20 of WTA’s ranking participating. Many of the world’s top players […]
Interviewed by Aleksey Leonov, Osetinfo.ru, Ossetia-war.com