Couple of things

1. Photos of street signs soon to be added to last post. Do I have too much time on my hands? Maybe! But not for long – the ducklings get here in less than 36 hours!

2. Here are some silly pictures of me.


While Lutsia was registering me with the police, she told me to go hang out in the Kazan Fur Factory's outlet store (no, really) across the street. I tried on a sweet lime green leather jacket with tons of zippers on it that was, alas, too expensive for me, and then played with the hats. The photo is bad, so you sadly can't see just how magnificently purple this hat is. I think the Sexy Arctic Explorer Barbie doll I had as a kid had a hat like this.


And while waiting to meet Natasha for dinner, I took a discreet candid shot of myself with Uncle Vladimir on Freedom Square. I tried to make my best Lenin Face.

3. I found out who Yapeyev is. (See previous post.) He was head of the Tatarstan MVD. (The MVD is the Ministry of Internal Affairs. I'm not entirely sure where the lines are between them and the KGB/FSB, but they do similar stuff.) Creepy! Unsurprising, though, since I live within two blocks of both the Tatarstan MVD and FSB headquarters.

And... now my blog is probably being watched.