What a weird year it’s been …

We started 2013 hating Vlad the impaler.. Midyear it seemed everyone wanted to boycott the Russian  Olympics over the LGBT controversy. And now as the year ends, the world seems to be on his side, hoping he can save the 2014 Winter Olympics from terrorism…

The Winter Games are only weeks away, but this weekend Russia started to look like a war zone.. 

There were two suicide bombings, scores dead and injured, and fear over whether Putin can prevent further violence before the Olympics.. 

Security is tightening around the nation, especially near the Volograd–the location of where violence took place.