Windows to Russia
I feel so old and out of date…
I just make my own coffee and try to never buy any coffee anywhere, due to cost. But our world is telling me that I am not able to make a decent cup of coffee and need to buy it made by someone a robot…
China’s younger generation has already developed the habit [of holding] a drink in their hands…
Source: Inside China’s robot-run coffee shop
I think I will go make a cup of my old fashion and very out of style coffee…
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The stuffed animal picture was taken for two reasons….interesting and a chickadee….sitting on the head of the brown stuffed animal…
He was singing to me and he really liked his perch…
The blue stairs are an example of getting away with something that is illegal. This is common here in Moscow and that is fine with me and 99% of everyone. I do get testy if they block sidewalks and such. These people have made their home have a direct path to the outside…
The tree thingy is so common….The point is it is still heavy as can be. It will still and most likely will, pull the wire down. The other point is, the tree was holding up the wire, now the wire is being pulled away from the building…
This is human brain power at work and or the lack of brain power at work…and the truth is, the ones cutting it down are 99% most likely, illegally in Russia and being paid under the table to work…
So they do not care…
The buses are all waiting to start their day. Most are in one bus and drinking coffee and bull%^$%’ing about life…
Life is good…
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Western liberal model is losing attractiveness
MOSCOW, April 12. /TASS/. Multipolarity is about to replace the Western liberal model of development, which is losing its attractiveness, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said at his annual meeting with students and professors at the Foreign Ministry’s Diplomatic Academy.”
The Western liberal model of development, which particularly stipulates a partial loss of national sovereignty – this is what our Western colleagues aimed at when they invented what they called globalization – is losing its attractiveness and is no more viewed as a perfect model for all. Moreover, many people in the very western countries are skeptical about it,” Lavrov said.
According to him, global development is guided “by processes aimed at boosting multipolarity and what we call a polycentric world order.” The Russian top diplomat pointed out that the foundation for such a world order was being laid and new centers of economic growth were emerging. In this regard, he mentioned Asian Pacific countries that managed to increase their share of global GDP from 15.9% to 37.7% in the past 20 years.
Clearly, multipolarity and the emergence of new centers of power in every way requires efforts to maintain global stability and search for a balance of interests and compromises, so diplomacy should play a leading role here,” Lavrov went on to say. “Particularly because there are a lot of issues that require generally acceptable solutions. These include regional conflicts, international terrorism, food security and environmental protection. This is why we believe that only diplomacy can help make agreements and reach sustainable decisions that will be accepted by all,” he emphasized.
In this connection, the Russian foreign minister expressed regret that “our Western partners, led by the United States, are reluctant to make agreements on common approaches to resolving issues.” “The US and its allies are trying to impose their approaches on others,” Lavrov noted. “They are guided by a clear desire to preserve their centuries-long dominance in global affairs although from the economic and financial standpoint, the US – alone or with its allies – can no longer resolve all global economic and political issues,” he said.”In order to preserve their dominance and recover their indisputable authority, they use blackmail and pressure. They don’t hesitate to blatantly interfere in the affairs of sovereign states,” Lavrov emphasized.
Source: TASS: World – Western liberal model is losing attractiveness, Lavrov believes
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With Easter coming to Russia (April 28th, 2019)…
Everyone is getting ready to bake a and or many Kulich. The Kulich preparation starts several days before Easter. Kulich can contain candied fruit, almonds, and raisins, sometimes flavored with rum and saffron, and prepared like a bread. It is most always baked in a special kind of pan – tall and cylindrical, sort of like a coffee can. When the cake was done, it was decorated with white frosting drizzled down the sides. On the side, spelled out in pieces of candied fruit, were the letters XB, representing the Cyrillic letters for “Christos voskres” or “Christ is risen.”
*** This Kulich is very very (very) important for Easter ***
So we are going to make a much simpler version and it still is quite good. Of course there are 48,000,000 + Kulich recipes, in which to delight your senses…
Therefore lets try this one…
Ingredients:
1 cup of milk
1 cup of sour-cream
1 cup of eggs
1 cup of sugar
2 ounces of yeast
1 cup raisins
Flour — as much as it takes to make thick elastic dough
Optional — (lemon peel, blanched almonds, candied fruits, dark rum, 1 tsp.vanilla)
Lets make:
Mix all the ingredients well in a large bowl. Fill as many coffee can type forms with greased sides as you want to have cakes, but make them only a third full to allow for expansion…
Let the third full coffee cans sit for 45 minuets in warm area covered with clean cloth…
Then bake up to an hour at around 300 – 350 degrees F (160 – 180 C.) or about until golden brown and a test knife or toothpick comes out clean not wet…
Topping: Icing
– 500 ml (2 cups) icing sugar
– 4 tbsp. cold water
– 2 tsp. lemon juice
Mix well in bowl and dribble down the top and sides of the cooled cake or pie after removal from coffee can container…
Done…
Eat – YUMMY!
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| Year | Western | Eastern |
|---|---|---|
| 2018 | April 1 | April 8 |
| 2019 | April 21 | April 28 |
| 2020 | April 12 | April 19 |
| 2021 | April 4 | May 2 |
| 2022 | April 17 | April 24 |
This table will give you when Easter is all the way up to 2022. I have been asked many times when Easter is in Russia. This table gives Eastern and Western dates…
Russia is East and America is West!
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It is extremely symptomatic that the nation (Turkey) which had fought dozen or so wars with Russia since the late 1700’s and has generally been considered main regional rival to the Russians (except briefly, during the Stalin-Ataturk rapprochement in the mid-to-late 1920s), is now consistently a more friendly and reliable ally of Russia than it is to United States, the nation it practically never warred with (except very, very briefly and on an insignificant scale) with which it was militarily allied since at least 1949…
The United States government should seriously and as a matter of the highest national emergency, analyze what it is about its international behavior that is turning off and away friends and foes alike and transforming them into sworn enemies…
May I respectfully suggest that general dishonesty, duplicity, cynicism and total unreliability of the American officials and casual, nonchalant pragmatism (read: Wild West Gangsterism) of the American foreign policy and blatant in-your-face lack of respect for the rest of the world may be to blame…
Turkey – like the rest of the world – is quickly learning/has learned the invaluable lesson: a reliable enemy is much better than an unreliable friend…
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I tire of people who constantly trill, “You have to work within to change the system”…
As if…!!! What???
I don’t recall stories about Jefferson and company back in ye ole days of yore, sitting around and debating over biscuits and tea, whether this method or that would work “within the system”…
They made a stand and took action knowing that failure was a one way ticket to the gallows…
Talk leads to nothing more than further talk and obfuscation by those in power…
Does anyone think for a minute that those in “POWER” will suddenly change course and sail for your interests over theirs?
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So there you have it. Extradited for journalism. In a blur, everything that Assange and WikiLeaks have been warning about for years has been proven correct, contrary to mountains of claims to the contrary by establishment loyalists everywhere. The same government which tortured Chelsea Manning is in the process of extraditing her publisher so that they can silence him forever. Everyone who has ever denied that this was happening needs to hang their heads in shame for scoffing at a very real threat to press
Source: Assange Has Been Arrested For US Extradition. The Time To Act Is Now.
Time flies and Earnest’s mom and dad soon will have another monkey…
Svetochka (babushka) has a growing family…
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Media: “- ECUADOR HAS DECIDED TO REFUSE ASSANGE ASYLUM – PRESIDENT.
THE BRITISH POLICE REPORTED THAT ASSANGE WAS TAKEN BY GUARDIAN POLICE DEPARTMENT IN CENTRAL LONDONThe hand of “democracy” squeezes the throat of freedom.
Yes it does Maria Zakharova, yes it does…
Russia would never had turned him over, proof as per Snowden….Snowden is living a good life in Russia. Free to go where he desires, withing the borders…
How times have changed, We now have freedom in Russia and oppression all over the West Empire…
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Update:
The Russian Foreign Ministry has said the manner in which the UK government executed the arrest of WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange is demeaning to human dignity, and his long-running persecution is a blow to journalism. Commenting on the arrest and detention of the publisher in the UK on Thursday, the ministry’s spokesperson, Maria Zakharova, condemned the British authorities for manhandling the 47-year-old Assange as he was being hauled out of the Ecuadorian Embassy in London.
