Monthly Archives: June 2007

Knock on Wood, psst, psst, psst (over left shoulder)

Sochi 2014. Five more days before the big announcement in Guatemala on July 4th. Like many folks from Krasnodar Krai, I am waiting with baited breath. I find it encouraging that President Putin will make a visit himself to Guatemala on July 3rd after visiting the Bushes in Maine. Apparently the city of Sochi is [...]

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Back in Boston until July 11th…

Back in Boston until July 11th. (cell: 617.566.3060)

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My Sentiments Exactly

There has certainly been a lot written in the Western press lately about Russia and how it has been backsliding with respect to “freedoms.” However, I have spent the past 10 weeks here in Krasnodar and the reality, as I have seen it here, is starkly different. Rather than spend a lot of time trying [...]

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