We got married in the backyard of the house we owned together for years, with our then six year-old child. An international job offer that required marriage for visas is what eventually gave us the nudge. My wife did change her last name because our daughter wanted the families names to match but that's about it.

Great piece of analysis.

My great grandma was an arsonist I'm told. My grandpa rented furniture mainly to black people and collected payments. He came home beat up a lot. My dad was a butcher. Maybe my butcher dad was privileged to sell meat to your lawyer dad. I'm glad to know that there are some nice white people in your life of no…

I'm going with Occam's razor: she made the whole thing up for attention.

Banker steals $100,000 in an afternoon from a family that cannot afford it and is admired as a brilliant capitalist (er, hand over the bailout money when his employer goes predictably bankrupt, thank you). Twenty-something Anastasia attempts to smuggle a plant with a "street value" of $100,000 and will likely be sent…

The signs are a goof ... duh! Some sign maker drank a half bottle of vodka then came up with the prohibited activities in the toilet sign. Russians do have a sense of humor.