Russian River Vacation Homes
Did you ever wonder who actually lives in those homes that are shown in the magazines? One Russian who passed through Riga suggests that as a result the Latvian capital has become an intellectual Hong Kong” for Russia much as Hong Kong has for China in recent years and as Riga itself did for the Soviet Union in the 1920s and 1930s ( /content/transcript/ ).
Recent incidents include harassment of US diplomats in Moscow and Russian claims that its foreign service officers are badgered in the US, several occasions in the past year when Russian jets and naval vessels have…
