The $100,000 Deer

The $100,000 Deer

Lessons in Cold War economics and stag hunting with the KGB under the hammer and sickle of Soviet Communism. Did I ever tell you about the time I paid a hundred thousand dollars for a deer? The money wasn’t mine of course, and it was in rubles, Russian money,...
Kamchatka

Kamchatka

Kamchatka is the name of a peninsula in the Russian Far East, as well as the subspecies of bear that resides there. For those who escaped, it is a place that still haunts their dreams.