America’s most Russian Relic

By Nadezhda Kevorkova, Kursk 24/6/2012 If Hillary Clinton truly wanted to understand Russia, she might have found it helpful to put on a kerchief and take a pilgrimage to the city of Kursk, some 500km south of Moscow, on a Friday nine weeks after Russian Easter. Here she would find something that binds Russia with the United States closer than any treaty ever could; something that defies time, politics, regimes, and even explosives. And the essence of the Russian character is as apparent here as nowhere else