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Han Ximin ximhan@126.com SHENZHEN officially signed a deal yesterday with Beijing Institute of Technology and Romonosov Moscow State University for the cooperative China-Russia University, which will be built at Universiade New Town in Longgang District. With the expertise of the two universities combined, the Shenzhen campus will cultivate talent required for cultural, educational and technological […]

This morning a new load of beams was delivered to the Ukrainians working on the bell tower. They have installed new beams in two complete floors of the bell tower and they are working on the third today. They have used all the bricks lying around and have rebuilt walls all over the place inside […]

Everyday somewhere between 40 to 50 times a day, a single biplane transverses the sky. It is different in color and style, but it is always a biplane. Now we are located on a jet flight path, but they are way up in the sky and these biplanes are sometimes just above our heads…

Boza and I again are bachelors and we are sad bachelors! Sveta left the Russian village last night back to the big city and bright lights. Moscow is just too big for me, but Sveta was born there and her son who is getting married on August 14th, 2014, is there and needs her to […]

I am not a good photographer and never will be. I have too much damage done to my system over the years by wars, fighting and illnesses. I shake too bad and reflexes are shot, but that never stops me from trying and I caught these images that came out pretty clear…

The heron was standing on a pole driven into the lake bed. He posed just long enough for Sveta to get a few shots of him as he was bathed in the last rays of the evening sun… He obliged and then flew away to what he considered safer territory. For we all know a […]

“Piss into the sea, you will find it in your salt!” said by a monk in Cambodia… I was told this in answer to a question I asked many years ago and the answer fits more so nowadays than then. Iraq is what I was thinking about this morning as I sipped a wonderful cup […]

Snowden does not get an asylum permit, he bypasses all that and gets temporary citizenship in Russia for three years. Then he can apply for permanent residence and become a Russian citizen. This is what I am doing for the long-term also and staying for life in Russia is the goal…

Several years ago in India, the Agni-V was launched from a site off India’s east coast and took about 20 minutes to hit its target somewhere near Indonesia in the Indian Ocean. The missile has a range of more than 5,000km (3,100 miles), potentially bringing targets in a huge chunk of the world within focus. […]

The banned items on 8-16-2014: EU, USA, Australia, Norway, Canada and anyone else sanctioning Russia… • Beef: fresh, chilled or frozen… • Pork: fresh, chilled or frozen… • Poultry (Chicken, Turkey) and its sub-products: fresh, chilled or frozen… • Salted, dried or smoked meat… • Fish, shellfish, scallops and other aquatic invertebrates… • Milk and dairy […]