--- Peter Lavelle <untimely_thoughts at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Chris, what is going with Buckley? He was so
> anti-Putin and anti-New Russia (meaning the country
> becoming no different from the West). I stopped an
> email exchange with him a year ago because of his
> contra approach. Now I see he has seen the light.
> What is going on at the FT?
>
> 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.
>
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