Interesting couple of days, both for work and personal impressions. Central Moscow has beauty and is more walkable, touchable than I expected. There is a small park that comes right up to the Kremlin gates and is full of picnickers, tourists, and readers. Outdoor cafés, loads of luxury cars and shops, green spaces and new bike share programs, and a real pulse.

I’ve visited the capitals of China, Vietnam, and Russia in the last few months. Communism is alive and well and driving a Range Rover.

Meanwhile, there’s a very high tension about what’s going to come of the Ukraine situation, international sanctions, and potential military escalation that I don’t think is felt by most in the West.