Does anybody notice that the stuff mentioned about US views of Orthodox Christianity (really, this means US Protestant views), are the same as their views of Catholics? Catholics are superstitious, corrupt, backward, etc.

It certainly seems that way in Moskva, which is a great thing of course. I think its fair to say that its a safe enough city.

What I said was that I think Moscow’s lack of dangerous neighborhoods is connected to the fact that, as a Soviet legacy, it does not have ghettoes, but with some exceptions like the rich people mostly live in the same apartments they had in Soviet days, regardless of their current socioeconomic status. Thus, you have people who are working class, poor, middle class, poor pensioners, intellectuals, the unemployed etc. all living in the same buildings/regions, whereas Western cities are economically divided up and you have areas that are very poor and areas that are very rich. Street crime usually correlates with poverty. There are no high concentrations of poverty, and so there are no high concentrations of street crime.

Cheer up – there’s always a first time.

Shouldnt that be ‘incursion’?