re: #343 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

I have not returned since I fled in 1993 (during the anti-Yelstin counter-putsch when government troops were shelling the Russian Parliament building)

But those halcyon days are gone, I used to be able to rent a furnished two-bedroom apartment in a nice part of Moscow near the Metro for $100 per month.

Have prices gone up? I wonder how Ed Snowden manages to afford his pad.