Windows to Russia

“There is an inverse relationship between public access to the Internet and the inability of governments and institutions to control information flow and hence state allegiance, ideology, public opinion, and policy formulation. Increase in public access to the Internet results in an equivalent decrease in government and institutional power. Indeed, after September 11, 2001, Internet […]

I keep telling my readers that it is getting serious on this side of the world. I live among the natives and I am not hidden in an office in a Moscow western news room, picking news items just to try to lie and make money over. I rub shoulders with the Russians. The Russians […]

Sammy the Volga ran great and  we have ample power now to pass and fly with the traffic. We use to have to stay hard right on the highways and hope that a bicycle would not embarrass us as they passed us. Now it is hard to keep her under the speed limit. Top speed […]

And Sveta was sneaking pictures of the grouches… The car is finished. It runs like a striped ass ape and Svetochka smiles as we tool down the road. Sammy has a new sound and Boza has gotten all worried that Sammy the Volga sounds different. Boza is funny as he hears her new sounds and […]

Long day yesterday! Spent hours in the Big Village helping to get the Volga mostly done. It still needs several hours of work, but it is work not related to the new engine. The work to be done is little things to make the car better all the way around… Drove home last night and […]

I have a delicious cup of coffee and a few thoughts to get off my chest. +1 Centigrade this morning and the sky is clear. Not sure it will stay that way, but a day without rain would be nice. Boza and I got up at 2:30 a.m. and walked for an hour in the […]

My home; Zarya Svobody and or Dawn of Freedom (or better yet,) The Tiny Russian Village… Just a recap of some of the many images that I have taken… This Tiny Russian Village, as I call it; Sunrise to Freedom. Is my freedom and it, plus my Svetochka, have saved my soul. I have grown, […]

The Tiny Russian Village is getting less people all the time. I am all alone on the bottom side and so the wells are staying fuller than when the village is fuller. Therefore, it has been three days since filling the wells. But, I am filling them this morning. Boza and I got up late, […]

Aleppo,Syria is the main goal! Once Aleppo is freed, all western hope for a gas pipeline from Qatar is destroyed. That is what all this Syria issue has been about. Qatar needs Aleppo to run their pipeline, or better yet, the gas pipeline for Europe. Qatar could not do it due to manpower, but the […]

Svetochka has found her new love of life in the Tiny Russian Village. I have been transforming the old village home into something that is cozy and almost modern by village standards. I have a bunch of work left to do, but the work I have been doing for two years is showing. Svetochka has […]