First Impressions
Growing up, my impressions of Moscow and the Russia beyond was a grey blur. Grey buildings, grey clothes, grey communities.
‘Russia Speak’
The very first thing I encountered is the outstanding complexity of the Russian language and my utter inability to converse with locals. For starters, most languages have an easy word for “hello,” right? Well, not Russian. Who can say “zdrastvootie”? There’s just no faking it. Russian is simply more difficult
Russian fatalism …. (things could get worse)
Russians seem to live permanently in a state where their world may turn ugly in an instant, where economic demise and any type of potential disaster – natural or otherwise – is always just around the corner. Maybe it’s the result of atrocities inflicted on them by foreign adversaries. Seventy
