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A love letter to… Russia How do you define a country that’s spent centuries proving virtually undefinable? Winston Churchill called it “a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma”; a vast landscape stretching virtually halfway around the world, and there’s no way I can do justice to every aspect of this complex, contradictory, bewildering and beautiful country. However, here’s my attempt that will inspire you, I hope, to discover more. Chaotic thrills Moscow is huge, chaotic and fast-paced, with traffic and people everywhere you look Shutterstock We should probably start with the capital. Moscow is intimidating, there’s no doubt about it. It’s huge, chaotic and fast-paced, with traffic and people everywhere you look. It’s a very extreme place as well, which unnerves a lot of people: it can be spine-crackingly cold or stiflingly hot, dazzlingly beautiful or shockingly ugly, distant and calm, or viscerally immediate and in-your-face. One thing it is not i

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