Seen Today in Dushanbe

• Snow: big, fat, wet flakes falling in a beautiful mess, and still falling steadily now, at 3 in the afternoon (and forecast to last into a chilly weekend!)

• Turkeys: 30 somoni (a little less than $10) per kilo, labeled for some reason in Greek, in the supermarket

• A Russian guy buying only hot sauce, and nothing else, at the same supermarket (I guess stereotypes are made to be broken)

• Historically inaccurate bright orange bell-bottoms in the 1976 Soviet film version of Firdausi's Shahnameh, "Skazanie o Siyavushe" (this afternoon's offering on TV Safina, one of the 3 local channels we get at home)