An interesting aside. I took a cab home this afternoon. (Better for me to write my programs at home - coffee to my left and smokes to my right - all in silence). The cabby said to me that it must be great to be a foreigner here. I asked why. He said you get all the great girls because of your money. I said that it is the Russians who have all the money. Chris and I are still here because Russia still needs some foreigners. We aren't the rich ones, not by a long shot. Most foreigners here serve a purpose to modernize the economy or have language skills. Some make good money, most don't anymore.
Chris Doss <lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com> wrote: Financial Times
October 31, 2006
>From shock therapy to consumer cure: Russia's middle
class starts spending
By Neil Buckley
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