White Russia (Bel -a – Rus) – Where the hell is Bobruisk??

Posted on September 11, 2007July 18, 2015 by Jonny Blair

The short answer is Bobruisk is a very sublime and extremely bizarre city in the eastern part of Belarus (White Russia). The real answer is that the day I left Moscow for a flight to Minsk (which I favoured due to money and time constraints over the train option), I had no idea how on Read more about White Russia (Bel -a – Rus) – Where the hell is Bobruisk??[…]

Backpacking in Russia: Stranger in Moscow and the 1917 Revolutions

Posted on September 9, 2007July 18, 2015 by Jonny Blair

One of the few things I remember from a school history lesson on the former Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was the Bolshevik revolution of 1917. The whole USSR/Russia/Soviet always held an interest in me. It was a massive country (the USSR/CCCP) which endured the horrors of Stalin and carried someone’s communist dream into the Read more about Backpacking in Russia: Stranger in Moscow and the 1917 Revolutions[…]