That's good to hear! I have no opinion on Russia; I know nothing about it past or present and I'm embarassed to say I at first thought the original article was

That's good to hear! I have no opinion on Russia; I know nothing about it past or present and I'm embarassed to say I at first thought the original article was somewhat accurate. But VE is pretty bad unless you can navigate around some big and scary forces. Some people are getting rich there but it's tricky. The diversity of the economy (which has always been kind of bad because of the distortion of the oil business) is getting worse as far as I can tell.