Ukraine who is unable to pay its gas bill and will run out of fuel in less than two days, has a president, playing around in United Arab Emirates… http://www.wsj.com/articles/ukraine-president-meets-u-a-e-officials-to-secure-weapons-purchase-1424788248 ABU DHABI — Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko announced a deal for unspecified military and technical coöperation with the UAE on Tuesday, and said negotiations are […]
Anything you say, can and will be used against you; in the quest to make sure you shut up and follow the rules… Years ago I fought this battle and with it went a bunch of traffic. Traffic that was not needed in the first place. Traffic that was infested with TROLLS. These trolls were […]
Secretary of the Moscow Communist Party, Valery Rashkin, had a message for Obama, written on the side of a fake missile. It was carried around during the huge parade that went on yesterday, just as all over Russia, for Feb. 23rd, Fatherland day… This next paragraph is a very rough estimate in what he was […]
When I came to Russia 10 years ago. I brought all my shoes and boots and coats. That was not much and not for Russia. I love my coat and have worn it regardless of the weather and temperature. I am stubborn like that and a coat, like shoes is part of your personality. So […]
by John Stanton “Defense Contractor” is no longer a valid term for US weapons makers. References to the “military industrial complex” are agonizingly silly particularly since the man who coined the term –President Dwight Eisenhower–was as ruthless as his CIA director John Foster Dulles. According to the Miller Center at the University of Virginia, defense […]
Russians Expect War and Are getting Ready For It… I have talked about the shipyards that build warships running full time and about the new submarines that seem to be approved almost weekly for seaworthiness. I have talked about how Russians are gathering supplies, how the factories are running full tilt, producing anything and everything, […]
Unhackable In Russia, created TaigaPhone – smartphone with enhanced protection from cyber-espionage. Developer – LLC “Taiga systems”, 99% owned by the head of the group of companies InfoWatch Natalya Kaspersky. Russia’s new smartphone is designed for corporate customers and will be distributed with the software product InfoWatch. Already created a prototype smartphone limited batch for […]
Carrots – 18 rubles per kilo… (Okay; I will break one down: .291 cents per kilo and a kilo is 2.20462 lbs. = .1312 per pound…) Bread – 11.9 rubles per loaf… Whole chicken 1.5 kilo at 89 rubles per kilo… Apples – 79 rubles per kilo… Eggs – 5 rubles each… (Price sucks! Easter […]
Oladji, or oladushki, are Russian pancakes that are essentially made of flour, eggs and kefir. We have talked about the blini and that is one of the most popular Russian pancakes. But the oladushki is a thick heavy pancake and resembles American style much more than the blini… So if you are hungry, lets make […]
I am going to apply to make a trip to Ukraine and see the war first hand. I am in hopes that “Windows to Russia” has enough clout to get me a expense paid trip to Ukraine and see the war torn East Ukraine. This will happen sometime at the end of March. This is […]