SWIFT is past, SPFS is now…

Russia’s money transfer system, developed as an alternative to SWIFT is now more popular than the global network, said Anatoly Aksakov, head of the Russian parliamentary committee on financial markets. He explained that Moscow is already engaged in talks with Chinese, Turkish and Iranian financial regulators on integrating its System for Transfer of Financial Messages […]

My best Russian Buddy… Vova…

Just got home to Moscow. We will try to get back to the Tiny Russian Village in a few weeks. Svetochka has to pick up paperwork on Nikolai’s home and we have to get everything transferred. It will take awhile… Nikolai’s home Good shot of the really Tiny Russian Village home. Call it, “Nikolai’s Home”. […]

Let’s Have a War with Russia!: I’d Rather Be Ruled by Autistic Hamsters | Fred On Everything

The current state of the American Army. Troops learn the hardships of pregnancy.The United States seems to be contemplating war with Russia, Iran, China, or all three Washington pushes NATO ever closer to Russia, leaves the nuclear-missile treaty and tries to destroy both countries and China economically. Why the push for war?Simple. Asia is awakening. […]

Images as I said… TRV

Very hard to get the images uploaded. Now it will not allow me to caption the images…so… 1. Main road 2. Vova’s Wisconsin flag 3. Vova’s home 4. Village road 5. Same 6. Sveta liked it 7. Another village road 8. Tiny Russian Village 9. Our new addition to the family 10. Tiny Russian Village […]

Well forgot the laptop!

The Tiny Russian Village is wonderful. The weather is not, but….snow, snow and more snow… Tomorrow I will try to post images of our new Tiny Russian Village Home…gonna take time to transfer paperwork though. Government, be it small or big in Russia is slow… Looks like it can all be done local government level […]