I went to Russia last in 2001, flew back to NYC 9 days before 9-11. Things were already pretty good with food,
and you could get all the latest software for windows, pirated for $30, 30 cds of it. Right now you risk 30 years in Siberia if you were born there and abandoned ship for good. So I would rather live in post soviet Georgia or Armenia. Armenian girls are cute -g- I don’t keep my hand on the pulse of post Soviet countries, or Russia. I am happy they are living better, cause they always lived in shit. My parents used to live there, but my mom passed away from cancer prematurely in the early 90-s, my dad followed her early this century. Since then I don’t have anyone there, except my friends mom, but we don’t communicate much. I did not hear good things about Putin. I have a friend who immigrated to the US and he fled Russia because Putin’s goons kept blackmailing him for money (and they kill if you don’t pay up). I don’t think this changed. The mafia comes here too. They like to get someone to sleep with an underaged prostitute then blackmail with statutory rape charges. Their favorite blackmail tactics. I don’t have 100 mil, and not interested in underaged prostitutes, so I am not in trouble unless I actually go there -g- used to be death penalty for defecting, it looks like Putin is bringing that back, the lesser version of 15 years. |
