Yes, I have just got hold of a book called "murder in Samarkand" that will be an eye opener. Corruption, child trafficking et al.
I guess there are areas all over the world that are unsafe, the only real opportunity I had to walk the back streets was in Bukara and Khiva.....what a contrast to the tourist bits!
Yes, all the area was very problematic in its' background all the time, and the pick was after the perestroika, when i finished my Army service.
Oh my days, I guess you have dealt with some shit
absolutely right. finally i left the country in 1993 but they took everything - the citizen passport, the penshinie pension money and insurance.
Fuck!
yes, their system always wa the system i was hating from the day i was born.
where are you based now then?
Israel :-)