Just landed in Moscow. From the eastern front I can report that nothing much has changed. The Russian people are still the worst the Planet Earth can offer you. Smiling still seems to be forbidden. Everything is extremely worn out and remarkably ugly. Inefficiency seem to be their favourite activity. They are Israelli-rude. (Forming a line with there people is nothing less than depressing). Since we are arriving pretty late in the evening, everyone either smell like pigs, or like a perfume shop in Italy. (The latter being the least common). The only good thing about our stay at Sheremetyevo 2 this time, is that we are only here for 3 hours, and hopefully will be able to avoid eating at some of the “restaurants” here. If the Buddhists turn out to be the ones that are right…… I would prefere to be reborn a American POW in the middle of Iraq, long before a Russian citizen.