On the Russian Presidential Polling Day Sunday, I departed Tullamarine at dawn with a fierce hot northerly blowing, already plus twenty degrees and climbing. I was bound for St Petersburg, minus ten degrees and snowing. En route I sighted both Meekathara WA, which Tamie Fraser once described as ‘hell on earth’ and Baku, Azerbaijan, where one hundred years ago Lt General Stanley Savage (the founder of Legacy) rescued thousands of Assyrians from slaughter, in 1918.
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