Many of my readers know that I have been chronicling the COVID crisis since its inception. More recently, the efforts by government agencies in the Russian Federation, particularly in Moscow and other local level governments, has caught my attention because it reveals a way the national government can claim it does not have vaccination mandates […]
The United States and the Russian Federation have come to an agreement! The sanctions need to end, right here and right now, because the two greatest powers in the world are standing together on a matter of great global importance! Well… not so much. However, both countries are attempting to use propaganda in a very aggressive and […]
The rhetoric about COVID-19 vaccine reached its highest level of fervor yet on Monday, July 5th, when the Chairman for the Department of External Relations of the Russian Orthodox Church publicly stated this: Those who refuse to be vaccinated against Covid-19 are committing a sin they will have to repent for the rest of their […]
OrthoChristian.com, the English-language side of the site Pravoslavie.ru, reported that Igumen Pankraty, the Abbot of the great Valaam Monastery, ordered his monks to receive the COVID-19 vaccine or be kicked out of the monastery with zero means of support. The translation in English reads as follows: All brothers prepare for a full vaccination. The first […]
WARNING: What you are about to read is rampant speculation based on observation. It may well be wrong, but then again… The “Delta” or “Indian” strain of COVID-19 surged in its spread in Russia over the last two weeks, forcing Moscow citywide daily counts of new cases of the illness to the highest recorded since […]
The July 1st referendum, or election, regarding the approval of the Russian Constitutional reform, has come and gone. It yielded interesting results, though, thank God, it yielded the right ones for the nation. Overall, a very strong majority, 77.92% of the voters approved the changes, and 21.27 opposed them. The voter turnout is understood to be moderately high by Russian standards, with some 65% of citizens voting in the extended time period made available by early voting.
