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Category Archives: Central Asia
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Bye Bye Bishkek
This is my town. Don’t you forget it. Continue reading
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Goodbye Means Never Having to Say You’re Sober
The quick vodka goodbye Continue reading
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Pucks, Ponytails, and Bodychecks
Ladies on ice. Continue reading
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Mom and the Bomb
Nuclear Memorial in the USSR’s A-Bomb Heartland Continue reading
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Architecture & Engineering outside of Atomic Testing Range
Boom town. Literally. Continue reading
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Happy Birthday, Oskemen
192 years young. Continue reading
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War, Sex, and Smokestacks: Welcome to Ust-Kamenogorsk
Memorials and such. Continue reading
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Vyschaya Hockey League Action: Ryazan at Ust-Kamenogorsk
Go Torpedo! Continue reading
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Dispatches from a Dictator: Stalin’s New Economic Plan
I freakin’ knew it. Continue reading
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No, Actually We Have Not Arrived Yet
22-hourish train across the Kazakh steppe Continue reading
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Camping about the Karakol Valley
Hum dee dum at 11,000 feet. Continue reading
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Soviet Sanitoria: Solace for the Damned
Where the Commies came to while away in luxury. Continue reading
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Oozy Gynecologist
Use of this term should be aborted in translation. Continue reading
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Animals. Buy Them. Sell Them. The Choice Is Yours
A horse is a horse of course. But a cow is not. Continue reading
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War Memorial Maintenance is Over (If You Want It)
Creeeeeeeeeeeeeeeepy. Again. Continue reading
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And the Russians Came. And Built Houses.
Some left. Some stayed. Some just went poof. Continue reading
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Happy Birthday, Aydin
Jivin’ with the Boys. Continue reading
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Yurt by the Inland Sea: Everything’s Better with Hostages
They are not what they seem. Continue reading
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Yurt by the Inland Sea: Donkeying Around
Pillow fights on donkeys? Yes please! Continue reading
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Yurt by the Inland Sea: the Birds that Kill
Kiew duh Waaabbit! Kiew duh Waaaabbit! Continue reading
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Uchitel: This is Not the Way to the Top
Teacher, teacher, can you teach me? Continue reading
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Pick a Flavor
Pinnochio for me please! Continue reading
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Overnighting in a Battle Zone
Well, former battle zone. It’s been quiet for almost a day. Continue reading