Meet the New Moscow*

Travel Blog  •  Jim Benning  •  06.16.08 | 5:22 PM ET

imageIt’s changing fast, to be sure, but in some ways, it’s the same as the old Moscow. World Hum contributor Peter Delevett recently paid the city a visit and stopped by the Kremlin. As he writes in the San Jose Mercury News: “Customer service, to put it mildly, is an embryonic concept.”


* Update, June 17, 5 p.m. ET: Peter just finished an online chat with readers about his trip. Transcript here.

Related on World Hum:
* The Rise of the Russian Traveler

Photo by Argenberg via Flickr, (Creative Commons).