On May 12, 2007, at 6:23 AM, Chris Doss wrote:
>>>
>> Never mind Perry Anderson, but life in Moscow is not
>> the equivalent of
>> life in Russia, right?
>>
>> Joanna
>>
>
> I was taking the piss, not being serious!
>
> Not even life in Russia is equivalent to life in
> Russia. The place is huge. It's like talking about
> "life in America."
You can't answer this now, because you've already hit your daily quota, but you're evading the point - Moscow is much richer than the rest of Russia. You keep citing the wealth of Moscow as if it were represenative. It's as if I took Manhattan's Soho as representative of life in the USA.
Doug