Fully agree. I lived in Russia for a long time and it's a very beatiful country, especially Moscow.
Oh, some of the people I knew in 1995-6 had to spend days at an embassy trying to get a visa to enter US, then weeks ( and sometimes months) waiting for an answer. Very frequently they were declined without a reason being given.
[This message has been edited by yevlesh2 (edited 05-02-2003).]