Archive for November, 2003

• 11.03.03 Monday, 3 November 2003:

  Say what you like about empire, it makes things simpler for the tourist. On four days and change on the Trans-Siberian from Moscow to Chita, I had interesting conversation with, on my count:
  three Kyrgyz
  two Ukranians
  two Russian Russians (one with a Buryat grandfather)
  two Kazakhstan Russians (one of whom had, I think, some Kazakh ancestry)
  one Tatar
  one Azeri
  one Tajik
  one Armenian,
  and we can count the one Moldovan who drove my taxi to the train station.

  
  Tags: feeling, happening.