Sometimes “good enough” really is.
—Tim Rayborn. The Scandinavian Guide to Happiness
I left Russia 30 years ago when the short period of democracy and liberalism just started, only to be effectively killed after several years by Putin’s autocratic, nationalist regime, which led to the nightmare we all witnessed in Ukraine. I was born and raised in St. Petersburg, the second-largest Russian metropolis, but during my childhood, the name of the city was Leningrad, and the name of the country was USSR. Under the communist regime, the Soviet ...