I am a user of the healthcare system available in Russia. I have to pay, since I am not a citizen, but I use the same healthcare that everyone else has available. Just costs me money… 2300 rubles is what I paid to have a “Carotid Ultrasound Doppler” – 2300 rubles is $34 to $35 […]
Here is the groundwork for the latest escapades in the Kerch Strait….and yes America was front and center… The text of the following statement was released by the Governments of the United States of America and Ukraine on the occasion of the 2018 U.S.-Ukraine Strategic Partnership Commission Meeting in Washington, DC. Media Note: Office of […]
Poroshenko behaving like Saakashvili. Two puppets that think and act like idiots… UNITED NATIONS (Sputnik) – Russia requested an urgent meeting of UN Security Council members at 11 a.m. on Monday (16.00 GMT) to discuss the situation in the Sea of Azov, Russia’s First Deputy Envoy to UN, Dmitry Polyanskiy, told reporters. “In connection […]
Interesting discovery happened (after coming back to Moscow) from the long term staying at the Tiny Russian Village… I came from America and was use to the chlorine in the water. Just a fact that most water in America is chlorinated to make it safe to drink. In Moscow the same, it is chlorinated and […]
This is in the empty lake bed of our Tiny Russian Village lake. Svetochka and I were walking the dried lake bed and came near the edge of the lake. The grasses were tall and beautiful… Svetochka loved the tall grasses as they whispered in the breeze… I wonder what they were telling her? WtR
Get ready for Christmas surprises… WtR
But… No pumpkin pie for us trying to stay thinner. I did not say thin, I said, “Thinner!” Which implies that we have extra padding to work with… Amazing how fast time flies….not sure I like flying time though… I bought a pumpkin today and will boil it, part of it, for us to have […]
Sveta wanted Pumpkin and she gets pumpkin… WtR
This is the Tiny Russian Village I talk about on this blog… Only -16 and time to walk to get a bus or taxi to Big Village… It stands on top the world around this part of Russia. The image is taken from near the river and in the valley that the river runs in…it […]
In America the below items that are expected in Russia are not very often expected in America….sometimes it is proper, but most of the time not… a. Bring a Gift: This is practiced somewhat in America, but more often than not, you just go visit and take nothing. Unless the party is BYO (Bring Your […]