VendingMachine,

I have been reading your posts on this board for a few hours. You seem very interesting and intelligent. You obviously have a very strong command of English and your insight into Russia is the most valuable one on this board.

You defend Russia against the stereotypes of westerners on this forum relentlessly. I wonder how you have not run out of patience and abandoned this board all together.

Could you talk about yourself? How you got into linguistics and translating, etc?

Thanks