I went shopping today and found that the items important to me were dropping farther in price. I have just a few items that matter to me and today I was surprised with the huge price drop. My favorite coffee went from 109 rubles per 100 grams to, buy two for the price of one. […]

The Russian president in the TASS special project Top Officials. In the TASS special project Top Officials, Vladimir Putin talks about healthy lifestyle, the “fifth column” and oil prices “plot” and argues with Russian philosopher Nikolay Berdyayev On health, wrong statement and the other side of the coin – What’s your health status now, Vladimir Vladimirovich? – All worries […]

I call them dumplings and these tidbits of delicious delights are common in many forms all over the east. They are simply put; wonderful and your family will appreciate the effort you take to make these for them. That is if you don’t eat them all yourself, before the family gets them… 🙂 ** Pierogi […]

Sanctions and embargoes, the US forced them upon the Japanese (before WW Two) to the point of retaliation. The US with the use of embargoes on fuel, goods and anything else they could do to cripple the Japanese economy in the past, is exactly like they still do today with many countries (e.g. = Russia,) […]

Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said… “They (US and EU) announce openly the sanctions should be ruining the economy and raising people’s protests,” he said. “The West demonstrates clearly they do not want pressing for changes in the policies, but they want to press for a change of the regime,” the foreign minister said. Kinda […]

Yamal-Europe pipeline comes out of Russia’s deep Siberian gas fields and travels through Belorussia before it starts into the interior of Europe.  This gas pipeline runs at full capacity and Russia is thinking of doubling that capacity from around 35 billion cubic meters of gas per year to 70 billion cubic meters of gas a […]

For years I have been telling about the Crimea and what will happen if the west continues to push Russia around… The head of the State Duma committee on CIS affairs, Alexei Ostrovsky, said in April that Russia could reclaim the Crimea if Ukraine was admitted to NATO. Media reported that President Vladimir Putin issued […]

“This is not so. The United States is not trying to humiliate us, it wants to subdue us, to settle its own problems at our expense. To make us succumb to its influence,” Putin said… Then he went on; “I sometimes feel utter confusion,” Putin said. “Protection of the so-called pan-European, Western influence to the […]

I guess it is better for me to answer what I see! For I am asking you what you see and I will tell you what I see as I look at the planet… I see future cold, expensive, and destructive weather… I see fresh water destruction by corporations… I see make-believe terrorists… I see […]

Went to bed with a 39+ C. temperature and woke up with it still in the high 37’s C. I just took it again and it is 38.6 C. This is what makes a grouchy bear to feel bad and makes me want to ignore writing today, so I guess that is what I will […]