Everything depends on people. Walking through the city and looking at clean streets and flowering lawns, it is hard to believe that just several years ago it was a place of ruins. Before flying in, I was looking at photos of destroyed Grozny on Ramzan Kadyrov’s blog. Two different worlds – a world of dead stones and a world of the modern city. Respect.

On the route back to Moscow the plane landed in the International Airport of Voronezh due to smog. I don’t mean to offend Voronezh people. But that inconvenient even for short term waiting place is hard to call not even International, but generally a modern airport.

Two cities. Two pasts. Two futures. Everything depends on people.

Konstantin Y. Smolentsev
http://smolentsev.com/