Unbelievable

Most of you know that I've been desperately trying to organize a trip to Russia for the past few months. Unfortunately, the airfare from Tokyo has been prohibitively expensive. Just when I accepted that the trip is not meant to be this year, I saw this outrageous fare on Aeroflot's website:

Moscow-Paris-Mosow for USD $209.00
http://www.aeroflot.ru/eng/info.asp?ob_no=4713

I damned near choked! If I can find a discounted airfare from Japan to France (not impossible) then its also feasible I could go there a gazillion times cheaper by flying to Moscow via Paris.

If not, I'm going back to China!