Two nights ago I went renewed another set of old ties: with Katya Beznosova, the journalist who followed our sister City presence in Yakutsk from the first meeting with Pavel Borodin, and organized many televised events for our group. You may remember her with her granddaughter Anya on the first cruise on the Lena River. Her daughter, Tanya, took all of us (Katya, Anya, and me) to a lovely Uzbek restaurant near the Belorusskaya Metro. It reminded me of the time I spent in Tashkent with Juanita Helms and Mike Davis at a Sister Cities conference in 1989. Katya, as energetic as ever, spends most of her time with her three grandchildren in Moscow: 9 year old Katya lives with her, and her daughter Masha lives nearby with two children of her own. Tanya is working as chief accountant for Gala, a company which buys art film rights from mainly German companies, and Anya has just gotten a job as an accountant in a oil and gas development company. I'll be posting more pictures of this family in the next few days, since we plan to go to dinner at Masha's home.
