Windows to Russia

Had to take a pain killer last night. Worked too much, Dug too much, walked too much, planted too much, hugged Svetochka too much and had to drag Vova’s Niva across a field to jump start it. Just too much in one day, but happiness is abound and I feel like singing like a lark […]

I think that the image of a walking burger is so appropriate for Moscow and what I think about Moscow. If I saw that burger walking around the Tiny Russian Village, there would be a war. I would stomp that burger and run it out of town. Somehow it just seems normal in Moscow, but […]

What else can be said? The village, a bike and the sabaka! Svetochka takes wonderful images. This is her idea of a perfect world… WtR

You watch as the US tries the same games in Russia as they successfully did in other countries. Russia is not other countries and Russia is stable. I see a backlash upon the US and it is growing… I see fear in the making within the US administration. Wake up people and drive that fear […]

To make the presidential Easter cake: 450 g wheat flour 130 g butter 14 g dry yeast 10 g vanilla 150 g raisins (soaked in brandy) 180 g sugar 10 g salt 60 g candied fruit 9 ml cognac 45 ml milk Grab a bowl – Pre-soak the candied fruits and raisins. Grab another bowl – […]

The Vostochny Cosmodrome (Russian: Космодром Восточный Kosmodrom Vostochny “Eastern Spaceport”) is a Russian spaceport under construction on the 51st parallel north in the Amur Oblast, in the Russian Far East. When completed in 2018, it is intended to reduce Russia’s dependency on the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The first launch took place on April 28, […]

Did not make it to the Tiny Russian Village yet! Delays and more delays and so we went to a movie yesterday. A movie that is made in Russia, by Russians and for Russians. It was really good. Called, “Flight Crew (Russian: Экипаж, translate; Ekipazh)”…… “This is not a film about heroes, but of ordinary […]

I have been home in Korolev, Russia for about a month now. Today Sveta is home and we will go to Globus (like WalMart) and grab some end of the garden season stuff. They have great deals right now and I saw some dirt cheap (pardon the pun,) orange and crimson Tea Roses. We also […]

On April 26, 2016 it will be exactly 30 years since the Chernobyl nuclear disaster hit the Soviet Union (USSR). Just 970 years to go. Then maybe that Ghost Town will be inhabited again. Problem is, will mankind make it that long before we eradicate ourselves. Watch a soul moving video. Listen to the words […]

China is storing oil… And I mean storing oil. Not just enough for a buffer, but enough for a damn war. Russia has already done such a thing and has enough oil to fight a long war, but China has been steadily and surely stockpiling oil for years now and we looked at every reason […]