The bell rang today… I sat down a cried today, for the most beautiful sound in the whole world, rang out over the valley. The people came in cars, walking, riding motorcycles, riding bicycles and even in wheelchairs and crutches. They all came up the hill and they all listened to the most beautiful sound […]
Today I give you an image of the monk (his head) and a bell. The bell is being raised and the monk is observing. There are six bells or eight bells? (According to who you talk to!) These bells are actually being installed as I try to watch. Oh how I would love to hang […]
This is the most telling information about what happened in the last month in Ukraine. The East beat the West… KIEV, September 08. /ITAR-TASS/. Some 1,200 prisoners of war captured by militia forces in eastern Ukraine have been handed to the Ukrainian government since a ceasefire took effect on Friday evening, President Petr Poroshenko said […]
Exact copy of the whole report and a link… The Hague, September 9, 2014 Preliminary report points towards external cause of MH17 crash No evidence of technical faults Flight MH17 with a Boeing 777-200 operated by Malaysia Airlines broke up in the air probably as the result of structural damage caused by a large number […]
Above some Herons who are camera-shy… The village is staying busy and it is due to the monastery. Monks everywhere and now heavy equipment everywhere also. They are leveling the monastery territory and going to fence the monastery by next year. I see that next year the monastery will most likely have a car bridge […]
On September 4-5, Wales hosted the most recent NATO summit. But instead of addressing real issues related to the withdrawal of NATO forces from Afghanistan and the crises in Iraq, Syria and Libya, the allies obsessed over the mythical Russian threat. Moscow, which released a sensible peace plan for southeastern Ukraine the day before the […]
Above: Dmitry Medvedev with Vedomosti Editor-in-Chief Tatyana Lysova, Deputy Editor-in-Chief Kirill Kharatyan and Economics Desk Editor Filipp Sterkin (Link) Question: Clearly, events surrounding the crisis in Ukraine and Crimea’s unification with Russia have had a big impact on the economy and the investment climate. Businesses now face a different environment than they were expecting. People […]
(Reuters) – Argentina, which defaulted on its debt in July, will receive the first tranche of a multi-billion dollar currency swap operation with China’s central bank before the end of this year, the South American country’s La Nacion newspaper reported on Sunday. The swap will allow Argentina to bolster its foreign reserves or pay for […]
I watched an interview by Russian media with the Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko. He made many good comments, but I liked these that he said about the Ukraine conflict… “In whose interests is this? This is Uncle Sam from across the ocean constantly pushing everyone to this slaughter. And let us be frank – there […]
Navy noodles – Macaroni Po-flotski (Makaroni Po-flotski) recipe… Oh seriously, I just love this dish. This is some of the best food in the world and actually I like one thing better and that is called SOS or @#$% On Shingle (SOS) as we called it in the army. But enough reminiscing, back to Navy […]