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A few uses of trademarks in Russia –
Here are some pictures from the last few days at Elama. The kids arrived for camp yesterday, so we should have pictures of camp soon. I enjoyed building some tables and benches, and Sergei finished up the cook stove in the summer kitchen. We also had quite a few people from Christ for the World, [...]
Here are some haunting and beautiful pictures of old estate houses in Russia. Many are far in the country where very few people now go. What treasures they are –
A companion to a previous post, I don’t know the specifics of this other than some fishermen parked on the ice. Well, the nice warm car melts the ice, and they return to find this:
In November of 2000, I (Mike) moved to Russia to help establish a Russian Charity named MIR. A little over a year later I married Olga. Over the years, God has led us and blessed us in many ways. We now live in Russia and spend time in the US, Finland, Montenegro, and Estonia. I’m [...]
Our visit to Montenegro was very good, and we already miss our family and friends there. We’re now in Budapest for a couple of days, visiting friends and a ministry here. Tomorrow morning we head north to Estonia for the Stoneworks retreat in Tallinn. On the way, we’ll stop and see Auschwitz in southern Poland. [...]
Unfortunately, this happens all too often in St. Petersburg when the government sends crews to clear the ice and snow off of rooftops. The windshield of our van was broken this way (though the glass didn’t cave in), and the government workers made no effort to avoid the problem or pay for breaking the glass. [...]
I just ran across this on the internet. It’s pretty amazing and gives a look into a part of the Soviet/Stalinist way of thinking: massive projects that capture the imagination. In 1940s and 1950s, right after the World War 2, Russia had to recover from the consequences of the Nazi invasion. Much had to be [...]
