Windows to Russia

Russia’s western enclave of Kaliningrad embraced its medieval era roots by celebrating what is called “Long Sausage Day,” this past Saturday. The sausage, made according to an old secrete Prussian recipe, was 3 meters long and 30 centimeters thick… Kaliningrad has reinstated the Long Sausage Day last year, after a 400-year-long break. It first celebrated […]

Actually all I can say is, “Oh Wow!” Sveta fired up the computer, since we do not have a TV and got TV online and we spent three hours watching the opening ceremony of the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia… It was a packed house and it was very impressive to watch… All I […]

So it is true that America has intentionally meddled in Ukraine! I will say it! Now, “I told you so!” I talked about this years ago and got blocked by Ukraine and attacked by US governmental sites after I told you all what I knew from conversations within the American Embassy in Ukraine… Try the […]

The word on the street in Russia, Ukraine, Europe and in the USA, is that $20,000,000 dollars a week are being dropped into the hands of Ukraine opposition and the word is that America wants to give a whole bunch more of our tax money to buy off the Ukraine government… The video I posted […]

We all knew! But it is so much better to hear it from US officials! Ukraine USA Interference… This plain pisses me off! This is a discussion on Ukraine and the issues… Those talking are Victoria Nuland (the Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs at the United States Department of State) and […]

Couple of traditions that I see everyday and live with everyday in Russia. These as other traditions are very important to the Russians… 1. When I first met Sveta, I called her a woman and she took offense at that. She said, “I am a girl not woman!” I got in trouble! 🙂 Of course […]

I tried! I really tried to work with a netbook and until today, I had wished I never bought it. I really tried to find the good and tried to say nice things about it and tried to love it. It was worthless as you know what on a fleas, you know what… It stunk […]

I was out of milk and another cup of coffee just was not going to happen, unless I had my milk. I had to walk the dog and he suggested to “Buy milk while we were out…” Oh yes he did! Find any excuse to get out of the house and he uses it… 🙂 […]

Get the cure before you become part of the swarm. Antidote #1: The People’s Platform: Taking Back Power and Culture in the Digital Age, Astra Taylor, Metropolitan Books, 2014. Antidote #2: The Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press’ Semiotext(e) Intervention Series: Factories of Knowledge, Industries of Creativity, Gerald Raunig; The Uprising: On Poetry and Finance, Franco […]

The Russians had this man figured out at the get go and he tried to play the games that the US wanted him to play, but Russia was on him like a “Fly on Stink!” I have to say that as I pointed out many months ago, “He was wrong for the position!” He had […]