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Category: Central Asia/Middle East

11 Sep 2007

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

Jonny BlairBelarus, Bobruisk, Central Asia/Middle East, Europe, Minsk9 Comments

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…

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9 Sep 2007

Backpacking in Russia: Stranger in Moscow and the 1917 Revolutions

Jonny BlairAsia, Central Asia/Middle East, Moscow, Russia2 Comments

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…

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