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Permalink Reply by Engineco913 on February 8, 2009 at 3:26pm

To be honest, Russia is one of the furthest things from my mind. Our country has enough issues to deal with right now due to the economic state than to worry about political differences with an ally

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Permalink Reply by Doug on February 8, 2009 at 4:21pm

I wish both countries could just forget the past, yet learn from it, and keep moving forward in a more friendlier way as we have in recent years. I like our new President's idea, just "hit the reset button."

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Permalink Reply by Fireyladd - Retired Chief Sharp on February 8, 2009 at 6:23pm

Realistically, we the people have no issues with the people of Russia. The issues have always been with the propaganda our Governments feed us about one another. Like all human beings we would all stand shoulder to shoulder to work for a better tomorrow should we have the opportunity. Just good ole regular folks.

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Permalink Reply by RUS fire 86.10 on February 9, 2009 at 3:07pm

in Russia training for the junior fire is 3 months. I trained as a firefighter \ rescue the Russian Federation as the governing structure of education is 3 years.
In Russia, there are 2 types of fire house is the federal (under the state funding) and on the financing of the city (municipal)
A federal quite all bad, the salary is much lower than that of municipal (federal, $ 400, the municipal-$ 1000) and very little funding, old appliances, etc.
We have a huge number of documents of all kinds are responsible for fire safety is an incomplete list:
http://fireman.ru/bd/pd.htm
http://fireman.ru/bd/nd.htm
http://fireman.ru/bd/sd.htm
If you need an interpreter it here:
http://translate.google.ru/

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Permalink Reply by Eric on February 13, 2009 at 5:40pm

I have to agree with what I've seen here. Let the past be the past. Not that I lived through it, but I am a big fan of history. It seemed like a governmental chess match. I look at it like two big dogs that are just staring at each other, seeing who can bark louder, but neither really wants to attack. Again, that's how I view the history of it. With that said, I'm not sure, but I believe that most Americans don't really care too much about what Russia is doing as long as they aren't attacking us, preparing to attack us, or supporting others looking to attack us. I think that both governments still look at each other as a threat in some sense and I wish that both governments would drop it. There would be benefits to both sides for getting along and working together.

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