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Greetings from Russia

February 3rd, 2005

Well, I’m in Nizhni Novgorod for a workshop on Proactive Computing. We came through Moscow on the way here, and the airport looks very different from when I last visited it in pre-Perestroika 1981.

Some aspects of Nizhni airport still have the good old Soviet feel, though.

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