Windows to Russia

Sveta was mean to me and sent me a picture of her Globus meal… 🙂

This morning after the walk with the dog and doing some thinking about life in general. I am sitting here at the computer with a great cup of coffee and writing down my thoughts. The first thought went to an image that I left sitting on my desktop of the laptop and I looked at it again as I thought about my sweetie. This image is Sveta’s meal at Globus the other day and for just about $5, she got the whole tray that you see in the image and it includes all the hot tea refills she desires and with Sveta that is a bunch…

That is chicken breast with a mayo based cheese sauce on top, cabbage, a dessert pie, Okróshka (cold soup), tons of greens or grasses on top and hot tea… (more…)

UnionPay a Chinese Credit Card…

Things are changing and I know that most western people are being left behind. The very least people can do is to keep abreast of the financial changes all over the world. Why? Okay I guess that is a fair question, because the world financial power shift has reached a new level and Russia and China are behind it…

This is why the U.S. is attacking Russia and China for that matter, at every turn of the page and screw… (more…)

Carp pond… (above)

You can not sanction this gigantic Fish farm we live near; The equipment is all home made, or Russian made and or Soviet made. The fish hauling trucks are all old Soviet made. Why even the owners drive nothing but brand new Uaz and Gaz trucks and vans. But then while they do not care about sanctions from the west, they simply love those Russian sanctions and I could see them seriously hope that Russia never lifts a fish ban against the west…

This is going to be most likely the biggest year for these fish farmers that they have ever had… (more…)

I do not think like many Americans, for if I did, I would not be in Russia, I would not travel the world and I would not enjoy life in freedom… (more…)

And once upon a time, in a land called America, the people would come in from their mountain cabins, farms, and mill towns with their young ones to joy in the closeness of community on warm sultry summer nights. The American dream was never about grand mansions, designer wear, exotic vacations, health clubs, silicone implants, Viagra love affairs, fortress malls, boutiques, forever war, the prison industry, or slave labor junk stores. It was about a man being able to make a living for his family. It was about a simple life of small town living, where people congregated on Main Street for the Fourth of July parade. It was about swimming holes, country lanes, fields of corn, teachers who challenged the young to greater heights (not social engineering! ), doctors (not technocrats), marshland songs, a whippoorwill, splashing streams, and woodlands with secret paths. It was about rain washed streets; where barefoot children splashed in puddles, blew magic bubbles, caught fireflies, and played hide-and-seek long into a muggy summer’s night. It was about concerts in the park, the clink of milk bottles, and visits to Grandma’s house; with her blue hair, flowered dress, and flour dusted apron. It was about the certainty of love with the slamming of a screen door, a child running in flowered meadows, and at day’s end, neighbors gathered on darkened porches, holding tight the wonderment of the day. It was about Hometown. — by Judith Moriarty

Once upon a time, in a land called America…

Yesterday was a church holiday and it had something to do with bee honey. The Orthodox put much stock in honey and consider it a very important food source for health. The monastery here has dozens of hives and they sell their honey for income generation. I have to say, nothing better than monastery honey, for they tend their bees very carefully… (more…)

I have written many times about how Russia lobs a shell over the bow and gives a warning. We call it a warning shot across the bow. Russia’s latest shot was the food ban of countries that sanction her for no reason…

This sixteen billion dollar warning shot is not against the USA, it is against Europe and her pathetic following to the grave of America. Russia is telling the EU that it is time to turn west and that Russia will, as will China, they will welcome the EU on equal terms and we can all work together and become rich together…

Europe is at a crossroad in its future and the wrong path leads to total collapse, the correct path leads to many more years of prosperity… (more…)

Sooner or later parts wear out, no matter how hard you try to keep it from happening. I had an original part that was stuck and I was not sure that I could get it removed from our Volga we call Sammy. Sammy was sick and I had been trying to solve her issues with careful study and part replacement. It became a fix one thing and next problem in line came forth with gusto. I mentioned yesterday that Sammy the Volga had distributor issues and I just about made myself sick working in the heat to fix her. Then after I finally gave up and even wondered if I could fix her, I started to do more studying and had Sveta interpret the hard Russian parts for me… (more…)

In the Russian Village it is only one way when it comes to men and women. The men are up very early and the women sleep as long as they possibly can. Sveta and I are the same way and when our women leave us alone, then we get up even earlier. Today as I walked the village it was no different and as I was nodding and saying dobroe utro (good morning) to the locals in the village, I realized that they were all men and older men like me. That gave me a thought for today and here I am writing about it, over a cup of coffee…

Oh, it was 6 am for those that are wondering what time it was that I was walking… (more…)

Han Ximin

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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 exchanges between China and Russia as part of a strategic cooperation plan between the two countries. (more…)