I met Anya (the FSN correspondent) and Dana (the Fox News correspondent) for breakfast at an American style diner. I couldn't believe that I came all the way to Russia, just to eat diner food. The walls were covered by old Americana signs like Ford and Coke advertisements.

After breakfast, Anya and I went to the FSN office. It is large, but mostly empty. I spent a few hours looking over their camera gear and trying to figure out how much of it I could take back to Washington. People from other bureaus routinely use the DC office as their personal gear warehouse, so we are left with the stuff no one wants.

I went to the enormous mall near my hotel to eat dinner. This city must have the highest concentration of malls per square mile in the world. Every time I open a door, I find myself in another one. Anyway, after wandering around the mall for a while, I got pizza, because I could order by pointing.

I am getting better at reading Cyrillic. It is actually not that difficult. You just have to remember that the 'B' sounds like 'V', the backwards 'N' sounds like 'E', the 'P' sounds like 'R', the 'H' sounds like 'N', and so on.