Still no word from Andrei. One of my best friend's husband has cancer. A very rare kind and we've been in the dark for so long as to what it is. They have a one-year old son-my Godson Chris. It wasn't long ago that an article was published both in Russia and the US about this boy-a child, a symbol in some ways, of what happened in the Moscow theatre siege in 2002. Now this....

We are all in much despair over this ....