[cloudmountain]

This article is on the money.
My husband and I traveled to St. Petersburg, just to see Russia. We KNEW that Moscow was a waste of time.
St. Petersburg was VERY expensive, with NO hot water in the expensive hotels, mediocre and VERY expensive food...and the knockoff Louvre, the "Hermitage" was a waste of time. BETTER to go to Paris.

My husband needed a wheelchair to go through the Hermitage so we got one. However, the GUIDE had to surrender HER passport as the insurance that the wheelchair would be returned. SAD, very sad.

Russia is a MESS. Always was and probably always will be. Their newspaper, Pravda, which means "truth" is a lying pact of print.

[Flavious_Maximus]

You read something from the Boston Globe and then mention Pravda.

I see what you did there.

[baxtelf]

Their newspaper, Pravda, which means “truth” is a lying pact of print.

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Well sadly so our ours.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks cloudmountain.

[henkster]

Many years ago the FOX network show “COPS” went to Russia and followed the local gendarmerie around. Now, while that was back in the 1990s just after the fall of the USSR, and I supposed at Russia’s nadir economically, it was still shocking. The clothes were shabby, the apartments where they lived were like the worst public housing tenements of New York or Chicago. But most shocking was the Emergency Room at a Moscow Hospital where a stabbing victim was being treated. I’ve seen cleaner mens’ rooms at interstate truck stops. It was absolutely the last place I’d want to recieve medical treatment.

Did things get better? Maybe. And then maybe they’ve gotten worse again as Putin and his cronies loot the country. Russia should be quite well off, and her people living comfortably. They have all the resources for it. But they are not.

However, we are not far from that should we elect our own kleptocracy this November.

[dfwgator]

There’s no Izvestiya in Pravda, and there’s no Pravda in Izvestiya.