A couple of weeks ago we spent a long weekend with friends in Moscow (photos here). The city has very beautiful areas and downtown is just amazing.
One thing that surprised me was that clearly the current price of commodities has done wonders for the local economy and you can see it everywhere you go: people dress better that what I saw 7 years ago in Saint Petersburg, the city looks clean and frankly it’s not the cheapest place on Earth.
Another interesting thing was that we were there while the situation in Georgia was developing, and the points of view in the local media were completely different from what you see in CNN or even the BBC.
Finally, as stupid as this might sound, it was very comforting to get past the usual stereotypes and just notice that the people over there are just like everybody else 
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Lo que no nos contaste fue lo que opinan en Rusia y que difiere tanto de CNN y BBC…
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Hola Liza, por eso puse el link
Ya en serio, en principio ellos le echaban la culpa del conflicto totalmente al presidente de Georgia y hablaban incluso de limpieza étnica de parte del ejército georgiano. Además, mencionaban que las tropas rusas estaban en esas zonas del Cáucaso por mandato de la ONU, algo que de lo que no se escuchaba en los medios occidentales.