*** Quoting Roman Lyubchak from a message to Bo Simonsen ***

 BS> BTW Some people in Europe do still believe that Russia is a closed
 BS> country, that's kinda bad :(

RL> I can not recall a period in the history of Russia when she was comple
RL> opened.

Closest to that was Roman times when they invaded.  They didnt get very far
in ¨either, but it's a mystery as there has been a fairly solid 'border' of
some ¨sort in all it's history, even if the border was climate.

Oddly, ancient human remains on the time of the mammoth shows it was better
¨traveled and the 'spice road' of later years was more the northerly route
of ¨Mammoth country in days of far yore.
                                       xxcarol

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