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More Blessed to Give, Than to Receive

If I could make one definitive contribution to Russian culture (apart, that is, from getting those clueless types with Brezhnev eyebrows who manage National Hotel to understand why they, like the Plaza in New York, can, and should put a portrait of enfant terrible par excellence, Eloise in their lobby) it would be this:  the [...]

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And The Wall Came Tumbling Down

20 years after the Fall of the Berlin Wall…how do Russians feel about it?

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So, here, and here, we are: inaugural post

So, now I’m dividing my time between Moscow, Russia: a massive, magnificent and messy city of 12 million which I’ve called home for 17 years, and Northampton, Massachusetts, a small, beautiful, artsy New England college town, which I’ve also called home for 7 months.

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