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To: Snowshoe who wrote (105399)4/2/2014 12:33:07 PM
From: Haim R. Branisteanu  Respond to of 219421
 
The Ural Volga regions and Siberia has wonderful people and I can attest to that as I communicate with them even now.

The problem is with those that arrive to power and abuse and brainwash the average person
See also Dr. Zhivago movie youtube.com this part is very much the true people Russia and not the rulers in Moscow of St. Peterburg



To: Snowshoe who wrote (105399)4/2/2014 1:31:27 PM
From: Haim R. Branisteanu  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 219421
 


en.wikipedia.org

en.wikipedia.org



this is so typical



To: Snowshoe who wrote (105399)4/2/2014 2:11:21 PM
From: Mannie  Respond to of 219421
 
Loved that film when I first saw it in 70mm...
The blizzard scenes are incredible.



To: Snowshoe who wrote (105399)4/2/2014 3:48:07 PM
From: Haim R. Branisteanu  Respond to of 219421
 
Something to smile

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To: Snowshoe who wrote (105399)4/5/2014 2:12:48 PM
From: Haim R. Branisteanu  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 219421
 
“Mayor Aysen Nikolayev and other officials from Russia’s Far Eastern Federal District have petitioned President Vladimir Putin, the heads of both chambers of the Russian Parliament, and the Russian Foreign Minister requesting the return of Spruce Island to the church.”

And the crucial documents, it seems, were found not in Russia but in the U.S.:

bloombergview.com

Researchers from Yakutsk went to the Alaskan capital Juneau to study the archive belonging to the Russian bibliographer Mikhail Vinokurov who emigrated to the USA in 1917 after the Bolshevik revolution. They discovered a certificate issued by Russian government commissioner Captain Second Rank Aleksey Peshchurov, detailing the transfer of Russian territories in Alaska to the United States. According to this document, Spruce Island has been granted to the Russian Orthodox Church ‘for eternity
After Crimea, Russians Say They Want Alaska Back
But after Russia's annexation of Crimea, which the Kremlin said corrected a "historical mistake," some in Russia would like to see the divide with Alaska eliminated by having Russia stake a new claim on the territory, which Tsar Alexander II sold to the U.S. for $7.2 million in 1867.

Amid growing anti-Americanism in Russia following the imposition of U.S. sanctions, Russian officials and pro-Kremlin journalists and bloggers have fueled talk — generally facetious — of an ambition to retake Alaska.

themoscowtimes.com