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Donskoy Monastery; founded in 1591, in the south-west of the central part of Moscow. The name of the monastery was in honor of Don Mother of God..

The Donskoy Monastery founded on the very spot where the army awaited a decisive battle with the Tartar hordes, and where there was a small little church camp with the image of Our Lady of the Don. This battle sent the Tartar’s running and finalized the spot for the building of the Don abode – a new monastic fortress, which completed the formation, of the Moscow defensive ring of Monasteries…

By the beginning of the XIX century Donskoy Monastery was the most privileged and wealthy monastery of Russia, which has a great influence on the spiritual and political life of the country. From 1799 to the end of the year 1827 in the Donskoy Monastery housed Spiritual censorship committee, which was then moved to the Trinity-Sergius Larva. In the monastery in 1834, housed a religious school, and since the beginning of the year 1909 and a school for training novices…

Donskoy Monastery as it is today…

The Donskoy Monastery still stands to this day and is a popular tourist destination for Russians and international travelers. It is just one of the many monasteries built to protect Moscow from invading hordes of barbarians. These monasteries formed a ring around Moscow, called the Golden Ring Road, that travels all around Moscow. These monasteries served as the first line of defense for the capital of Russia…

These monasteries are many of what formed the basis for the power of the Orthodox Church to congeal the churches into one centrally functional system. The power of the Orthodox Church owes its existence to the brave and daring monks that protected many cities all over Russia. Monasteries where more than just a place of God, they were fortresses to protect the world of Russia…

Posted by Kyle Keeton
Windows to Russia…

The copy scores 52.9 in the Flesch Reading Ease test, which is considered fairly difficult to read.

Chrin Horseradish Beets…

In Russia they do not like crushed red pepper, black pepper, white pepper and or any type of pepper, but talk about horseradish and you find that Russians sneak it into everything and then complain about pepper and hot spicy food. I find it interesting that their mustard’s and sauces will have horseradish in them and they are hot…

Why they have a green paste that they serve with Sushi and it is smoking spicy. 99% horseradish and 1% green stuff. It is called – Wasabi! It is made out of regular cheap horseradish in Russia and not the highly prized Japanese horseradish, that loses its flavor within minutes of being made. Therefore, the older Russian Wasabi gets, the hotter it gets, until you cry as you make a mistake and take a big bite of it…

Lets make something that all Russians I know of complain about, but love, spicy food. I can not add black pepper to my gravy, but daub a spoonful of horseradish right on top of all the food and a Russian smiles…

Chrin Horseradish – Ingredients:

1 kilo fresh beets
250 grams – fresh horseradish ground up into almost a paste, use a blender if desired…

Chrin Horseradish Beets…

First cook the cleaned beets with skin on them. Once done cool and then peel…

Then chop, slice and or grind the beets; drain (you can save the purple water for soup if you’d like, minus the horseradish)…

Then add ground fresh horseradish to the diced, sliced and ground up beets, then mix well. No, I said mix well. That’s it, keep stirring, a little more, I think an once of purple water is needed! Good stir some more and you are done…

Put in refrigerator, in a sealed container, 24 hours is perfect and or eat right away. Though it will get stronger and is perfect for those unsuspecting victims, as it keeps days in fridge…

You just made Chrin Horseradish Beets…

Posted by Kyle Keeton
Windows to Russia…

The copy scores 73.6 in the Flesch Reading Ease test, which is considered fairly easy to read…

Last Thoughts; This post makes five hundred articles for the year 2014. Windows to Russia has 4554 articles as of the writing of this post the 4555th article. I still remember my first one hundred and I was so proud of that accomplishment. Windows to Russia started officially in 2005, it never became a real entity until sometime in 2007, but articles became posted and articles survived from the early era. One of the very first articles was this one May of 2005 – http://windowstorussia.com/it-takes-getting-mad-to-change-things.html. Hundreds of articles were lost over the years in major battles against our wonderful government of transparency. I guess I hit some sore spots in the early eras and the Department of Homeland Security tried to shut me down. Sore spots that I still hit, but I learned how to fight them, but not before they destroyed hundreds of articles and images in their wish to kill Windows to Russia to the last dredges…

http://windowstorussia.com/attack-said-the-killer-dhs-and-tsa.html
http://windowstorussia.com/wdcsun19usdojgov.html
http://windowstorussia.com/script-attack-again-by-the-department-of-homeland-security-of-the-usa.html
http://windowstorussia.com/attacked-and-crashed-by-the-gate-computers-located-at-the-us-space-and-naval-warfare-systems-command.html

It was a multi-year battle and I almost could not win. It was expensive and tiring to say the least. The huge U.S. government using taxpayers resources, to try to squelch a tiny blog such as Windows to Russia. It started when they forced Blogger to shut me down, for I was too political and crass. Then it went from stupid to all out attacks for days on end. They (US) used computers from all over the USA in military bases and other governmental buildings, such as the guard shacks at TSA locations. I burned through hosting companies like a string of firecrackers just lit…

We are no longer tiny, but neither big either, but we have a huge crowd of silent readers. Windows to Russia will top 10,000,000 views this year and over a third of that is China. I have found a new growing readership in China. At the pace that they are growing, it looks like 50% will be Chinese next year, even as the numbers grow in general…

http://windowstorussia.com/east-or-west-that-is-the-question-for-russia.html – is the number one article of 2014. It has been non stop number one since production. It simply tells it like it is…

http://windowstorussia.com/simple-farm-grilled-carp-recipe-in-russia.html – is the number two article of 2014. An article on how to cook carp on a grill and after a hundred plus thousand people have visited this article (since my summer of 2014 in the village,) I hope that some enjoyed carp like Sveta and I do in the village…

I have very few commenters, for they learned early on that commenting brought the governmental trolls and that just is not right. We do not need a world being controlled by trolls on the internet. Therefore, I dissipated the trolls after many years of trying to figure out how. Trolls are 99% paid government people to disrupt a website and its functions of getting information out to the public… (To stop them just make a list of thousands of IP’s and block them, it works…)

Who am I? I do not give out who I really am to any detail, I am ageless in a last era of youth on the net and I will not give anyone my true age. I have been in several wars and I have done things for Uncle Sam that ashamed me as I have grown older and see the world for what it truly is. I say to people,”Been there and done that! Never wanna go back to it!”, as dreams haunt me at night. But Sveta just got us a “Dream Catcher” and it works. I have slept soundly since I put it above the head of the bed… (Thanks sweetie!)

Last Thought; I am going to end this last of the year article with this:

 I was never at home in America. I always asked too many questions for people and teachers would even not call on me as I raised my hand to ask something or tell an answer to a question they asked. I never conformed to the norm and even at a young age, I realized that society, reaped what it sowed. I discovered at a young age that I could sense things, and I could see things most could not. This ability carried me through times of death all around me and I have seen much death in my life. Death is not fun when you are not able to understand why we kill. Most men do not live full lives after a war and our country shows all the signs of a war-torn and war-weary society, driven on by warmonger’s who have never walked the battle field…

* * * * * * * * * *

We have made it to 2015 and I have the most wonderful woman in the world next to me. We are planning on going to the largest skating rink in the world, at Red Square and I will take pictures of Sveta skating. She loves to skate and we need to walk this most wonderful city, called Moscow, in Russia. the place this American lives…

Last article of 2014, last thought on paper, and last chance to make a difference, for the old year. Lets hope that 2015 is not our last year on earth and that we have many more, for the earth is a wonderful place to live and travel…

Last but not least; and yes Sveta and Boza say, “Hi!”

Posted by Kyle Keeton
Windows to Russia…

The copy scores 77.2 in the Flesch Reading Ease test, which is considered fairly easy to read…

I am wishing for the New Year, that the United States government withdraws from the world and leaves the world at peace and harmony. I am wishing for the deaths by drones to end all over the world. I am wishing for America to hug, shake hands, and warmly greet the world as an equal, even if it is not superior in many ways…

Might does not make right…

With a 1000+ military bases in over a 100 countries. Instigating and fueling many wars, occupations, and illegal droning. With instigation of internal conflicts that upset the normal serendipitous of life in almost all cases, that is it implemented and trying to install puppet governments all over the world. Governments that are contrary to the benefit of the people living there…

Results from above actions by the U.S. are retaliation, by others in the world community in conspectus…

We have become despised for even being alive and this is in total stark contrast to how we were once a nation that stood for world peace and prosperity…

It would be the same effect once again, if the United States law enforcement all over America, would withdraw its menacing presence from the United States society and allow people to live in peace and harmony within America. If the law enforcement was part of the community, morally, mentally, and physically and not a strong-arm effigy of death to control a society with…

Results from above actions by the U.S. are retaliation, by others in the American community in conspectus…

Wishing for a country to wake up and see the writing on the wall…

A nation that once had a police force being respected and loved in many instances, now despised and feared, from one side of America to the other…

kKEETON

Posted by Kyle Keeton
Windows to Russia…

The copy scores 60.5 in the Flesch Reading Ease test, which is considered OK to read…

I may not want to live my life in North Korea, but then there is a lot of places I would not spend the rest of my life at in the world and that includes the United States of America. That said, unlike not desiring to ever go back to America. I do wish to travel to North Korea and see what is up. I stand up for the little country and feel bad that my country lies and propaganda’s them to death. The U.S. is utterly the worst at pointing false fingers at others all the while they are doing just what they squeal about, like a little child telling on his friends. No one needs friends like that in the world, because being taught not to tattle and or lie is correct…

Well the latest escapade induced by a façade faked West, has been to accuse falsely and actually attack North Korea internet wise. The west without any facts, accuses North Korea that they hacked the Sony stuff or whatever. Then the U/S crashed the North Korea’s web and squealed for days about how bad and terrible the baby eating country of North Korea is… “~Sarc~”

What North Korea did in return, they asked for a UN-backed investigation, for NK says they had nothing to do with all that happened and we have found out that servers used to do this function are located in Japan and in China, and nothing points at North Korea, except a falsely accusing Western Empire…

Now guess who screamed, “No way will we investigate the accusation!” and a, “Forget you fools!” became implied and that was that. Pretty simple, the “Land of the Free” (~Sarc again~) does not want incriminating evidence against their escapades come forefront…

You got it, the good ole USA. They seem to want no investigation and want to accuse with no proof… (Kinda like jets falling out of the sky and such trivial things like that!)

 North Korea says, “Obama always goes reckless in speech and action like a monkey in a tropical jungle.”

That quote above is from news in North Korea, seems that they have reached a limit to the crap they will take and are going to call a “spade a spade…”

I find NK very refreshing and not at all like we are lead to believe. North Korea deserves support by the UN and we deserve to know the truth about this and many more things that seem to happen all over the world, for propaganda reasons, everyday…

This is all done by the west to promote a movie, to belittle and marginalize North Korea…

Therefore, what’s new?

Posted by Kyle Keeton
Windows to Russia…

The copy scores 73.1 in the Flesch Reading Ease test, which is considered fairly easy to read…

I asked Santa for this…

I did ask Santa for the laptop at that link above, but it looked like it would not happen. we decided to look at other cheaper computers, such as HP, Acer, and such. The DNS laptop was just too high and we could get basically the same power for 5,000 ruble less, but not Russian made, though Chinese made…

Then after shopping the internet for several hours and trying to find the best deal, Sveta and I went to Burger King to enjoy some delicious onion rings. I directed Sveta and I (after dinner) to our DNS store down the street from Burger King and we decided to look one last time at the DNS Office computer that I had studied and knew would be a good deal…

The computer was 25,000 rubles and it was an excellent piece of computer ware. It was well-built and had great specs. We entered the store and started to look at the laptop computers and we noticed these employees switching prices on certain models of laptops and then I noticed that all over the store prices were silently being dropped. No fanfare or excitement, just simply swapping a price tag out and going to the next item to change. Right in front of our eyes prices were dropping 5,000 rubles, as we stood there and the computer we (I – :)) wanted went down 5,000 rubles as we stood there. Actually I watched a 22,000 ruble HP 15.6 inch screen drop to 17,000 rubles in front of my eyes and realized that Christmas was in the air…

We had Christmas snow all day and wishes being answered left and right this Christmas day…

We found our computer that was at the top of the list for us and sure enough, the price was officially 5,000 rubles less than what we looked at a week ago and these prices were dropping everywhere, all over the store…

 Sveta looked at me and said let’s get it and therefore, we did. The proof is in the pudding that Santa does make things happen and Sveta and I both wanted a new laptop to replace our worn out laptop, that has become obsolete and almost worthless, for modern technology…

But this is not the best gift we (I) received…

For under our tiny, pathetic, and wonderful little Christmas Tree, I found that Santa had been by during the night. He brought two of my most favorite items in the world…

These items are almost impossible to find in Russia and they are more than a little important to me, they are a necessary item in life and I have lived many years here in Russia without protection of one of these…

I found under the tree; Dream Catchers American Indian style…

Dream Catchers catch-all bad dreams and only good dreams allowed. Once the sun pops up over the horizon, all bad dreams flow from the dream catcher evaporated in the safe secure sun…

With my past, this is a mandatory part of life and they were never available in Russia, at least for me…

Christmas and Santa brought me two Dream Catchers, and they are beautiful…

I told you that there was a Santa Clause and if you are a good boy or girl, he will drop a few special gifts your way. Now we have Russian Christmas/New Year on the 1st of January, I hope Ded Moroz is just as nice as Santa… 🙂

Then after that we have real Christmas according to the Orthodox in Russia. That is on the 7th of January…

Today I will put the big Dream Catcher above the bed where it belongs and soon the small catcher in the photo, will hang off the mirror in the car. These are two critically important locations for a Dream Catcher to do their jobs, properly…

I feel kinda bad this morning though, Christmas is my holiday and Sveta celebrates it with me, just because it is important to me. Though she does not want anything and or cares for anything on this day. It means nothing to her and since she is very practical and analytical, a holiday based on western ideologies, just does not excite. Therefore, her gift time is during the Russian New year when Ded Moroz stops by and gives gifts to all good boys and girls. This is Soviet Tradition and now Russian tradition as well…

Hence, I have secretly told Ded Moroz what Sveta wants for New Years and he said that he would be on the lookout for her gift…

You can tell me lots of things and tell me that many things are not true, but you will never be able to tell me that Santa, Christmas, New Year, and Ded Moroz are not real. For they all tie in together with baby Jesus and God and it just makes a long Winter better…

Posted by Kyle Keeton
Windows to Russia…

The copy scores 71.8 in the Flesch Reading Ease test, which is considered fairly easy to read…

Leaders tell it the way its. They do not fluff it, nor sugar coat it…

“For the government, for your agencies, we cannot afford this long holiday, at least this year – you know what I mean,” Putin said…

“The hardships we are facing are not only external, they are caused not only by the sanctions restrictions or by restrictions linked with the objective international situation, they are also caused by our mistakes that have been made over the years,” Putin said…

At the same time, Putin stressed that, “We have been making efforts to change the structure of our economy, to refine it and make it more innovative…quite a lot has been done in this direction.”

Leader:

I keep telling the world that Putin, president of Russia is unlike any politician that I have known. I see other good politicians, but they are few and far between and Putin resides over a huge major world power…

The quotes above are perfect examples of a president that tells it like it is. He does not try to hide things and he does not try to whitewash things. The Russian people appreciate a president that tells them the truth and I as an American, find it very refreshing to be told the condition, of the country and government and not be lied to about what is happening. I dislike rose-colored glasses and it seems that Americans all want those glasses to stay on their face…

Which do you want? A president that is a leader and tells the government that they are going to work and make things better and keep an eye on things, or a president that spends much of his time vacationing and or playing golf?

Which do you want? A president that tells you things are bad and that it is going to be rough, or a president that tells you life is a bowl of cherries and they even took the pits out for you?

Which do you want? A president that drives implementation of changes to better the country, help the people be self-sufficient, and allow democracy and entrepreneur capitalism to flourish or a president that drives political, corporation, and cronies agendas, over the people…

Which do you want? A president that tells the truth or a president that lies?

I was taught to be a leader by example and Putin does just that in Russia. I realize to the dismay of some of his underlings, they wish he was not so driven to support the country and be a leader. But I can honestly say that in my work career, the managers that could not put the ball in front of them, lost their job quickly…

Posted by Kyle Keeton
Windows to Russia…

The copy scores 66.5 in the Flesch Reading Ease test, which is considered okay, but hard to read…

China is launching trading in forwards and swaps between the yuan and three more currencies, including the Russian ruble, from December 29, the China Foreign Exchange Trade System managed by the People’s Bank of China announced on Friday.

China is also launching trading in contracts with the Malaysian ringgit and the New Zealand dollar from 29^th December. China is promoting usage of the yuan in global commercial and financial transactions, with the goal of rivaling the dollar as a reserve currency.

That’s great news. Thankfully China has grown strong enough to tell the US and cronies to go jump off a cliff headfirst. If they (China and Russia – as well as Iran) want to use a better alternative for trade other than the USD, for oil and other natural resources, why not? Therefore, nothing or no one has a right to try to stop the usage of alternate currencies. We live in a free world…

Like Iraq, Libya, and every other nation that proposed selling their oil in gold dinars, or Euros or other forms of payment, the US terror teams that decide to invade and start wars in every country that oppose use of the USD (just like those that got Gaddafi and Saddam deposed and murdered), the US can’t do that with China or Russia, because they know they do not have a snowball’s chance in hell of succeeding, and China and Russia will stand up for each other before they would ever side with the USA…

China: Obama is the Fiddling Nero of the American empire –

And like the last days of Rome, or a dying star going supernova, the USA is putting everything it can into its last few proverbial moments before it too falls, its currency fails, and becomes nothing but another Euro-like nation. While buried and saddled in debt, with incompetent and corrupt fools in government…

All I will say, is good riddance to the dollar and the wars it has allowed to spread like cancer all over the world. The end is at our doorsteps now, get ready; if you can…

Posted by Kyle Keeton
Windows to Russia…

The copy scores 58.1 in the Flesch Reading Ease test, which is considered fairly difficult to read…

Merry Christmas from Sveta and Kyle at Windows to Russia…

Koliadki are Russian Christmas cookies that are made to treat all the people who come to sing carols at your home. These cookies can have the many different types of fillings…

Kolyadka (Ukrainian: колядка, Russian: колядка) is a traditional caroling song usually sung in Eastern Slavic countries (Belarus, Russia and Ukraine) only on Orthodox Christmas holidays, between the 7 and 14 of January. It is strongly believed that everything sung about in the song will come true…

Ingredients:

Dough: 14 oz flour, 2/3 cup water
Filling: 1/2 lb tvorog (cottage cheese), 7 ea eggs, sugar to taste (Or honey!)

Method:

Combine flour with water and knead the dough.
Roll out the dough finely and cut out squares.
Fold the edges and pinch them to have small boxes.
Fill the boxes with tvorog (cottage cheese but drain very well) combined with eggs and sugar.
Bake in a preheated oven on average heat until light brown.
Please experiment with this cookie. Fill it with fruit, candies and anything else you can think of. I like them with a meat filling and they are so simple to make…

Plus they are Yummy…

Posted by Kyle Keeton
Windows to Russia…

The copy scores 68.7 in the Flesch Reading Ease test, which is considered OK to read…