Turning Cold in Russia (Mother Russia Part I)

I recently went on a trip to Moscow and St. Petersburg. Not a typical holiday destination for Filipinos in general but we had to take advantage of an invitation given to us by a friend of my wife who had been living there for the past 4 years. Free lodging, a guy who knows his way around and a chance to visit the place that I only knew from the silver screen, who could ask for anything more. Yes, home of the KGB, the country that built the Red October, Ivan Drago and Smiert Spionem, I think it was about time to expand my undoubtedly vast knowledge of the country known formerly as “the bad guy”.