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Bay Stater aspires to empower Siberians through self-realization seminars.(Arts and Lifestyle)

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From: The Boston Herald
Date: 20010123
Author:Cox, Christopher

Don't expect Club Med to open in Omsk, Russia, anytime soon - or ever. The Lonely Planet guidebook terms this drab industrial city of 1.3 million people in the endless expanse of Siberia "a resoundingly ordinary place." Closed to outsiders until 1992, it was a major dumping ground for exiles, most famously writer Fyodor Dostoevsky, who barely survived a four-year sentence there.

But Michael Connor can't get enough of the gray, grim place.

"Part of the risk is also part of the reward," said the Stoughton resident, 42, who has traveled to the back of the Russian beyond ...

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