Writes a friend:

A blog post one of your writers wrote a few months ago had a YouTube link to the Russian folk group Otava Yo.

Here is one of their songs.  Unfortunately, I cannot understand them but I enjoy their music none the less:

Here is one of their songs:

Just searching around I came across some concerts with songs in Cossack dress:

I am becoming very disturbed as a generally decent person (I’m a sinner after all)  and as a Christian as to why we would demonize these people.

Yeah, let’s destroy their country, give it to the western bankers and oligarchs so they can rape the place, plunder the resources and leave the populace impoverished.  I guess Putin got in the way…