Russian Village was perfect


  This last trip to the village home was a necessity to repair some items. It was also very wet and we had to drive through deep mud puddles. The mud and puddles were created by huge fish trucks plus tons of rain picking up fish and taking them to the market… Sammy the Volga […]

Mary Landrieu Calls Pavel Astakhov an ass


Life Imitates Art: Mary Landrieu Calls Pavel Astakhov an ass; Then files bill to speed up international adoption I came across a good article and actually the only article that I have found that addresses the issue about what I read myself at RFE/RL. I had thought about an article on Windows to Russia and […]

Fresh Eggs In Russia…


When I first came to Russia, I realized that many things were different, but the real differences are deep with in the systems of governmental issues. A difference that stands out to me is with eggs and once again the Russians and most Europeans have it correct and America missed the boat somewhere down the […]

BRICS Cable Internet and it is about time…


The BRICS cable from Vladivostock, Russia to Shantou, China to Chennai, India to Cape Town, South Africa to Fortaleza, Brazil, is being built and it’s, actually, in its final phase of implementation… BRICS Cable… a 34 000 km, 2 fibre pair, 12.8 Tbit/s capacity, fibre optic cable system Links Russia, China, India, South Africa, Brazil […]

A Plea for Caution From Russia By Vladimir V. Putin


MOSCOW — RECENT events surrounding Syria have prompted me to speak directly to the American people and their political leaders. It is important to do so at a time of insufficient communication between our societies. Relations between us have passed through different stages. We stood against each other during the cold war. But we were […]

Good one, President Putin by Ron Bryan


Russian President Putin knows a lot more about Syria than our President Obama does. President Putin wrote an op-ed piece for the New York Times a few days ago. He presents a well-written article on his perspective of the Syrian situation. Here is a link to that article: https://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/12/opinion/putin-plea-for-caution-from-russia-on-syria.html?pagewanted=all I don’t want to belittle our […]

Demonizing Putin Endangers America’s Security by Stephen F. Cohen


Instead of embracing Russian President Vladimir Putin’s proposal to save Washington from another disastrous war—his plan would put Syria’s chemical weapons under international control and destroy them—influential segments of the American political-media establishment are bent on discrediting him and thus in effect the alternative to war he represents. Still worse, purportedly liberal and progressive voices […]

Church of meteorite in Russia


The founder of the cult of the meteorite church is strongly against the operation to bring the chunk out of the lake, claiming that as long as the meteorite stays at the bottom of the lake, it is “in a positive environment”. “Contact with outsiders, who treat it as an average stone, can violate the […]