A perspective in 2023: This article contrasts the situation from an article written in 2014 with what pertains today and why the country has regressed hugely. Novosibirsk Diary — 2014: The terror has ended but the fear lives on: I have a fantastic young team here in Novosibirsk. Most of them are in their late twenties or early thirties and they are symptomatic of the new, young, professional and confident generation of Russians. Most of them speak English or another foreign l