In the former U.S.S.R., ‘everything could collapse’
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The Most Marked Change That You Saw Between 1996 and Late Last Year?
In 1996 it was a bit like the far west. It was there was a lot of crime, there were all kinds of gangs and you know people these companiesthese institutions that belonged to the government were liberalized. And so when I came back 25 years later there were cafes, there were people like in Kiev for example in Tbilisi in Rigathere are European cities you could go to cafes now. There's a great there's a mall there's many malls there's malls in Riga you could buy whatever you want. People have salaries that permits them to buy stuff to renovate with Ikea to go to restaurants at night it's hard but it's Western societies with and they
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