Tsars, snow and babushkas in Ekaterinburg
April 28th 2007 Evgeny's friend Vitaly, a retired airforce colonel and former MIG pilot, now working as a nightwatch man in Evgeny's research institute (such is the state of the Russian pension system), drives us to our home for the next 2 days. Vitaly started learning English at the age of 70 and tries out a few phrases on us. V impressive. We say goodbye and climb up 4 flights of stairs in the soviet style apar
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