coffeebeerandgeology

In your Morning Edition piece on Monday?, you mentioned going through a check point, mainly emphasizing how it was a display of a more powerful Russian government. Was that the only purpose of the checkpoint that you perceived? Did you hear any stories of others getting stopped and/or delayed because, say they are Tatar and note Russian?

I'm also loving all the NPR AMA's.

Thank you for the clarification. I was definitely half asleep while listening, so I probably missed you stating as much.