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Welcome back to my Russian readers, I've missed you.

I wonder what took you away and I wonder what brought you back.  Perhaps you see that I am a fan of Danil Pluzhnikov who recently won Voice Kids on Russian T.V. What a wonderful singer he is. I am praying for his safe keeping as there are many pitfalls in Show biz.  I see he now has is own website.  My Russian learning is progressing but not very good yet so I have been glad to use Google Translate when I want to know what is being posted on Daniel's Russian version of Face Book.  the translation is almost immediate but sometimes does not quite convey the right meaning, but it is a useful tool.

  For those of you who don't know Daniel, he is 13 year's old, is 98cms tall but has a great personality and sings with such passion.  Even when you don't know what he is singing about he stirs the emotions.  Why not take a look at his website or find him on YouTube?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgQsKzx1kLk I think this will take you there.

  As I watch Russian T.V., with my limited understanding of the language I am more and more warming to the Russian people.  Living in the West we don't realize the level of propaganda against them.  No doubt their rulers do the same about us.  But we should look at the ordinary people of  Russia and see that they are people just like us with the same emotions in joy and in sorrow, the same aspirations. Learn to discern between fact and propaganda.

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