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Stuck in Russia ?

admin | April 19, 2010

I’m due to fly home from Moscow early next week, and the air travel situation is not looking good.  The volcanic ash cloud doing seem to be going away anytime soon. I first thought about trying to just get out of Russia to a neighboring country such as Finland or Latvia  to wait it out [...]

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Shopping in provincial Russia

admin | April 16, 2010

Yesterday I went to a fairly new  and large shopping mall in Izhevsk.  The place used to be an old fashioned department store but was renovated a couple of years ago, now it looks like a small scale copy of Okhotny Ryad (Moscow) shopping mall, with tiled floors, glass doors to the shops and fancy [...]

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