I'm leaving tonight for Helsinki, to get my Russian visa renewed. Hopefully, this will be the last time that I will have to make this stupid and expensive trip. Stupider that ever, since the trains have changed their schedules, and don't get to Finland until 11:30 AM now, but the Russian Cosulate is still insisting that one gets there at 9:00 AM. This requires that I spend a night in a hotel there.

Grumble.