He keeps revealing the secrets of the East

Family friend RAY NAYLER has made it his life's work, it appears.
While serving a PEACE CORPS stint in the former Soviet Republic of TURKMENISTAN, Ray provided regular e-mailed missives detailing life in the central Asian backwater, still very much a totalitarian regime at the time.
Ray later moved to MOSCOW.
Now, Ray serves as a senior program officer for the American Councils for International Education in DUSHANBE, TAJIKISTAN.
Ray's reports on life in the former Soviet Union continue, no matter his location.
He recently published a guided tour of the RED LINE on the Moscow Metro, including the Komsomolskaya station (pictured).
(You can find Ray's recent travelogue here).
I had hoped that the mysterious shroud around the Soviet Union would lift upon the fall of Communism. Thanks to Ray's efforts, it is finally beginning to clear.