There's more. I missed a contaminated aeroplane on the outward journey by a few hours, i.e. BA flights earlier in the day (B 767s) were implicated but not mine, the last one out (an A320).
On the return (Nov 26) no flights were contaminated, according to the British Airways website, but I did travel on a B 767...
My hotel, a Stalinist masterpiece
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is located on a road that used to favoured by the Soviet press corps and my friend there works in a bank for an oligarch...(and he is an American I know from London, where the top management of his previous employer was implicated in fraud, though that was way after he left)... and we ate in (stumbled into) a restaurant that is so expensive that mostly 'New Russians' (Rich Russians) only can afford. (But the food was good.)
And, as my project of the week, I learned to (slowly!) read Russian (block letters)...
A chap I met at the exhibition I went to is a Serb resident in Moscow who is a partner in a newly-established company based in Serbia but trading in Russia, minimising taxes at both ends...
Oh, and I didn't tell you about my trip to Sarajevo last spring...what was funny was being told -- by my hotel barman -- that UN troops (or was it NATO?) were being given medals for simply serving there for six months... and that this barman was a bit put out by the fact that he kept winning or doing very well in regional cocktail-mixing championships but that nobody wanted to drink cocktails... That's another non-sequitur but, hey, it's Monday...
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