Traveling to foreign places, is surely one of the important things we do to understand the world we live in. Furthermore, living in Canada gives us often a rather false idea of what the world is like. This is particularly true of places like Russia, which during its USSR period tended to be equated with a place of great evil.

So, now that it is again, easily, possible to travel to Russia, one tries to understand the place without the prejudices which had been fed to us. Taking a look at the place, meeting its people, and trying to ... (more)