Gee, it's good to be
back home
After well over a year I was back in the country that I love
(and sometimes hate) so much. Back in the USSR Russia.
Russia is a country full of contrasts:
- Absolute richness vs absolute poorness
- Immaculate beauty vs total ugliness
- Modern and state of the art vs old and obsolete
- Indefinite freedom vs being close to a dictatorship
- Cleanliness vs dirt and smudginess
- Sweetness and compassion vs total ignorance and
neglect
- Honesty and reliability vs corruption of the
worst kind
- No future vs unlimited possibilities
It is always easy to judge a country like Russia and many,
many prejudices about it are true and justified. But hey, if you wonder where the
country came from, it has already gone a long way.
Don’t write the country off yet, from an economical as well
as human point-of-view. It doesn’t grow so hard as the other BRIC’s and it has
yet a lot of flaws, but it is much closer to a western country with western
standards than any of the other BRIC’s. Still, the country has a long and
winding road to go, before it can live up to western (European) standards.
When asked, my dear wife Olga said about investing in
Russia: “Just don’t do it! If you still want to do it anyway, be prepared to
take loads of money with you”. Still, if you have any questions on investing in
Russia, please feel free to mail me via the email address in the “about me” section
of this blog.
With this blog, I take you on a trip through the wonderful
city of St-Petersburg on its most beautiful and ugly, through a series of
pictures that I made during my trip.
If you have the time and the opportunity, visit this
wonderful city and country yourself. Especially for Russia the phrase is true,
that you can’t judge this country without having visited and lived it.
Tomorrow, I’m back with a regular blog.
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| Arguably the best and most beautiful metrosystem in the world Copyright ernstseconomyforyou.blogspot.com Picture by: Ernst Labruyère |
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| Arguably the best and most beautiful metrosystem in the world Copyright ernstseconomyforyou.blogspot.com Picture by: Ernst Labruyère |
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| Arguably the best and most beautiful metrosystem in the world Copyright ernstseconomyforyou.blogspot.com Picture by: Ernst Labruyère |
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| Landscape around Petergof, near St-Petersburg Copyright ernstseconomyforyou.blogspot.com Picture by: Ernst Labruyère |
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| Landscape around Petergof, near St-Petersburg Copyright ernstseconomyforyou.blogspot.com Picture by: Ernst Labruyère |
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| Landscape around Petergof, near St-Petersburg Copyright ernstseconomyforyou.blogspot.com Picture by: Ernst Labruyère |
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| Russian orthodox church near Petergof, St-Petersburg Copyright ernstseconomyforyou.blogspot.com Picture by: Ernst Labruyère |
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| Blocks of Soviet-style flats St-Petersburg Copyright ernstseconomyforyou.blogspot.com Picture by: Ernst Labruyère |
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| Blocks of Soviet-style flats St-Petersburg Copyright ernstseconomyforyou.blogspot.com Picture by: Ernst Labruyère |
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| Blocks of Soviet-style flats St-Petersburg Copyright ernstseconomyforyou.blogspot.com Picture by: Ernst Labruyère |
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| Inside a Russian streetcar Copyright ernstseconomyforyou.blogspot.com Picture by: Ernst Labruyère |
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| Russian streetcar tickets Copyright ernstseconomyforyou.blogspot.com Picture by: Ernst Labruyère |
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| Typical Russian streetcar Copyright ernstseconomyforyou.blogspot.com Picture by: Ernst Labruyère |
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| Typical Russian streetcar Copyright ernstseconomyforyou.blogspot.com Picture by: Ernst Labruyère |
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| New orthodox church in a typical Russian living area Copyright ernstseconomyforyou.blogspot.com Picture by: Ernst Labruyère |
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| Old telecom building Copyright ernstseconomyforyou.blogspot.com Picture by: Ernst Labruyère |
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| The Hermitage at night Copyright ernstseconomyforyou.blogspot.com Picture by: Ernst Labruyère |
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| The St-Petersburg bridges at night Copyright ernstseconomyforyou.blogspot.com Picture by: Ernst Labruyère |
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| St-Petersburg at night Copyright ernstseconomyforyou.blogspot.com Picture by: Ernst Labruyère |
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| St-Petersburg at night Copyright ernstseconomyforyou.blogspot.com Picture by: Ernst Labruyère |
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| St-Petersburg at night Copyright ernstseconomyforyou.blogspot.com Picture by: Ernst Labruyère |
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| St-Petersburg at night Copyright ernstseconomyforyou.blogspot.com Picture by: Ernst Labruyère |
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| St-Petersburg at night Copyright ernstseconomyforyou.blogspot.com Picture by: Ernst Labruyère |
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| St-Petersburg at night Copyright ernstseconomyforyou.blogspot.com Picture by: Ernst Labruyère |
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| St-Petersburg at night Copyright ernstseconomyforyou.blogspot.com Picture by: Ernst Labruyère |
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| St-Petersburg at night Copyright ernstseconomyforyou.blogspot.com Picture by: Ernst Labruyère |
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| McDonalds Russian Style Copyright ernstseconomyforyou.blogspot.com Picture by: Ernst Labruyère |
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| The Mariinsky theater during the Nutcracker suite Copyright ernstseconomyforyou.blogspot.com Picture by: Ernst Labruyère |
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| The Mariinsky theater during the Nutcracker suite Copyright ernstseconomyforyou.blogspot.com Picture by: Ernst Labruyère |
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| Narodni Universam, arguably the busiest supermarket in the world Copyright ernstseconomyforyou.blogspot.com Picture by: Ernst Labruyère |
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| Narodni Universam, arguably the busiest supermarket in the world Copyright ernstseconomyforyou.blogspot.com Picture by: Ernst Labruyère |
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