Ukraine: Boarder Crossing Was Smooth!


We found Ukraine to be a pleasure to travel. As always the people of Ukraine are friendly and helpful if need be. I myself find Ukrainians to be a little more expressive than Russians. The border crossing at Belgorod, Russia was smooth and very fast. The last time we crossed a year ago by car, […]

Russian News: April 22nd, 2008!


Zelin, today denied any links of the Russian military aviation to the shooting-down of an unmanned aircraft in Abkhazia’s airspace. ”The Russian air force had nothing to do with it, we have absolutely no business on the territory where the incident took place,” he told journalists. RBC, 22.04.2008, Moscow 17:23:10.President of the Russian Union of […]

Russia: Pastor Phillip Miles, Gets Three Years!


http://kylekeeton.com/2008/04/phillip-miles-what-will-be Looks like Russian Courts did not believe Pastor Miles either. He has been coming to Russia since before the fall of the Soviet Empire!—————————————————————A Russian court on Monday sentenced a U.S. pastor to three years in prison for illegally bringing hunting ammunition into the country. Phillip Miles was arrested in a Moscow airport in […]

Russia: Vacation Post 1


Hello, As we had our morning cup of delicious Ukraine Coffee & Tea, we got our internet connection going. We are having a blast on our trip. We decided to go to the Crimea in Ukraine. The weather is wonderful and warm. We stopped on the first leg of our trip, at a town in […]

Russian News: March 28th, 2008!


the ministry’s monitoring report on the economic situation in the country states. Meanwhile, GDP rose 8.2 percent in February 2008 against the same month of 2007. RBC, 28.03.2008, Moscow 11:09:45.Rosneft’s net profit under RAS decreased 1.3 times from nearly RUB 213.217bn (approx. USD 9.07bn) in 2006 to RUB 162bn (approx. USD 6.89bn) in 2007, the […]

Russia: I Am Watching The Dollar Sink, One kopek at a time!


I have watched the Dollar slide downhill slowly but steadily! This effect was not very apparent when I lived in the USA, but living outside of the USA, I see how the Dollar decline is conjunctively with all currencies……————————————————————–Dollar down 13.88 kopeks, euro up 16.91 kopeks – Central Bank 27/03/2008 13:48 MOSCOW, March 27 (RIA […]