July first I flew to Baku from Batumi via Azerbaijan Air. I spent the night in the Baku Fly Inn, a magnificent hotel located on the same property as the airport. It was extremely elegant and very quiet even though it is right in an airport. You can’t hear the noise inside.
The next morning early, I flew to Moscow via the same airline.
I took a taxi from Moscow to my hotel in Tula.
We had a devil of a time finding the hotel. The map showed it next to the stadium. We drove around the stadium twice and didn’t see any hotel. The driver asked several passers by and the third one explained that the hotel was inside the stadium located under the bleachers. It’s a very large football stadium and they obviously didn’t need all the space for locker rooms. A hotel makes good sense. Visiting teams have a place to stay right in the same building where they play.
A Venezuelan Military Intelligence whistleblower confirmed the CIA outsources election rigging technology like Smartmatic and Dominion from Venezuela.
The Russians like the Finns love their Sauna. There a hot springs near Batumi that rents out saunas with a four hour minimum for parties. I rented such a sauna for my granddaughter and her friends as her eighteenth birthday present.
A big shout out to the people who follow me. Unfortunately I’ve had to leave Russia. It became impossible to receive any funds from the US. I am currently living in Batumi, Georgia.
This is my family in the living room of my apartment in Kimovsk, Russia. I am a disabled Vietnam veteran. Seventy six years of age. My son Aleksandr (left), and my granddaughter Dasha (center) look in on me. Here, I had hoped to live out my retirement years.
A person's epiphany usually comes at the moment of death. Until the last moment, he is certain that the world belongs to him. But then he sees everything leaving him, everything turning out to be a dream, and he is left with only what he managed to acquire in his heart. That is why the memory of death is so hateful to the Devil.
A person must always expect death and constantly remember that every day could be his last. This is precisely why today, through repentance, can become his day of salvation.
For those who do not remember death, death comes to them suddenly as an enemy and takes them captive. For those who remember it and prepare for it, it comes to them as a liberator from labor and suffering, leading them to the land of eternal peace.
For a Christian, the memory of death, combined with prayer, is a fiery sword directed against the Devil. As long as a person remembers the impending end and the mystical experience of death makes their heart tremble, they cannot sin, just as they cannot, ...
In the memory of posterity, Tsar Feodor Ivanovich, son of Ivan the Terrible, remains an almost comical figure—a gentle, pious, "simple-minded" monarch whose reign was merely a prologue to the rise of Boris Godunov. This image of a benevolent ruler incapable of power, who preferred the ringing of bells to matters of state, is firmly ingrained in history. However, the actual circumstances of his rise to power shatter this stereotype. They are full of drama, fierce political intrigue, and surprising paradoxes. The first days of the reign of the last Rurikovich on the Moscow throne were not a quiet transfer of power, but a veritable political thriller. Let's uncover some of the most unexpected facts hidden behind the façade of official history.
1. "Child of the Great War": The Tsar Whose Childhood Was Spent to the Roar of Cannons
The year of Feodor's birth, 1557, was perhaps the "last year of tranquility" for the Muscovite state. The country stood at the height of its power, enjoying the fruits of recent victories. The ...
