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Background: Founded in the 12th century, the Principality of Muscovy, was able to emerge from over 200 years of Mongol domination (13th-15th centuries) and to gradually conquer and absorb surrounding principalities. In the early 17th century, a new Romanov Dynasty continued this policy of expansion across Siberia to the Pacific. Under PETER I (ruled 1682-1725), hegemony was extended to the Baltic Sea and the country was renamed the Russian Empire. During the 19th century, more territorial acquisitions were made in Europe and Asia. Repeated devastating defeats of the Russian army in World War I led to widespread rioting in the major cities of the Russian Empire and to the overthrow in 1917 of the imperial household. The Communists under Vladimir LENIN seized power soon after and formed the USSR. The brutal rule of Josef STALIN (1928-53) strengthened Russian dominance of the Soviet Union at a cost of tens of millions of lives. The Soviet economy and society stagnated in the following decades until General Secretary Mikhail GORBACHEV (1985-91) introduced glasnost (openness) and perestroika (restructuring) in an attempt to modernize Communism, but his initiatives inadvertently released forces that by December 1991 splintered the USSR into 15 independent republics. Since then, Russia has struggled in its efforts to build a democratic political system and market economy to replace the strict social, political, and economic controls of the Communist period. While some progress has been made on the economic front, recent years have seen a recentralization of power under Vladimir PUTIN and an erosion in nascent democratic institutions. A determined guerrilla conflict still plagues Russia in Chechnya.



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Hello all, We've arrived in Krasnoyarsk yesterday. Having spent the night in a very dodgy location, we have relocated to a nice hotel today and explored town. We are leaving for Yekaterinburg tomorrow. As some of you will know I lived in Moscow for 5 months back in 1995 and have been to Russia twice before that spending three weeks at a time in Kirov (Vyatka as it is now known) to do a summer course. The stories are coming back slowly and am managing to bore Vicky to death with them. My Russian is very rusty - during our trip [View Full Entry]

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By mcooper
August 30th 2008

some catch up photos!

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outside the british embassy, is this what they think of us in kazakhstan?
Hi everyone! I know this is quite delayed but I thought we better finish off this blog properly, even though we've been back in Oz for 3 weeks. terrible! I was so keen to do this for the first part of the trip. But as time went by and we found ourselves in more and more remote places, you just sort of loose the need or desire to keep in touch with the world back home. The feeling of isolation is great and things like the internet just loose their appeal. Anyway, here are some photos from kazakhstan and siberia, the [View Full Entry]

mcooper - Michelle and Paul's Odyssey | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe | 0 Comment(s) | 66 Photo(s) | 0 Video(s) | [diary=317883] | 2008-08-30 13:19:22

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Hello from Irkutsk 2 weeks into our travels and we are on our third country. We have been here 3 days now and we're just about to get on the train again for the next leg of our journey. Just enough time to describe what we've been up to the last few days. The journey from Ulan Bator to Irkutsk was quite an experience. The train was full of a mixture of people, from the Russian attendant, Mongolian traders complete with consignment of jeans to sell in Russia, American and British tourists, and a few British students who had done the [View Full Entry]

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By T V_Travels
August 28th 2008

Mongolia to Irkutsk

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Hello all, We arrived in a rainy Irkutsk yesterday with a massive delay - we were meant to arrive just before three o'clock in the afternoon but the train didn't come in till close to six. Having no Russian money and no working ATM in sight, we were trying to find out a way to get our hotel paying Euros - a very nice lady (apparently the big boss in the station) took pity on us and drove us to the hotel. Anyway, I've jumped ahead. Our last evening in Mongolia was marred by my camera being stolen on the way [View Full Entry]

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By Van Go
August 27th 2008

A Month in Rusia

 Europe » Russia » Siberia » Krasnoyarsk
Russia was a whirlwind of experiences, tastes, and sites. From the mighty Red Square and magnificent St. Basil Cathedral to the clackety clack of the Trans Siberian Railroad to standing on the border of Europe and Asia in Ekaterinburg to teaching English at summer camp in Novosibrisk to standing on the bluff overlooking the Yenisi River in Krasnoyarsk to flying Aeroflot to St Petersburg and spending the day in the Hermitage Museum and the night watching the lights everywhere and the bridges rise for both social and commercial boats then back to Moscow for a stroll among the flower competitions [View Full Entry]

Van Go - Van-Go: Today is a good day to drive! | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe | 0 Comment(s) | 1 Photo(s) | 0 Video(s) | [diary=316814] | 2008-08-27 14:50:08


By FamilieFrey
August 27th 2008

Til Baikal

 Europe » Russia » Siberia » Irkutsk
Her bor vi saa privat hos Svetlana - vi har aldrig set et russisk hjem foer saa det er spaendende og vi har en god vaert. Vi studser mest over stoerrelsen og maengden af laase paa hoveddoeren - og man kan ogsaa se paa doeren at der har vaeret andre laase der er blevet braekket af. Saa er der et kaempe plettet kattedyr-skin paa stuevaeggen som Helene er fantastisk imponeret over og vil vide hvad er og hvorfor det haenger der. Oprindelsen kender Svetlana ikke men hvorfor skulle man ikke haenge saadan et op svarer hun?! (Ja som dum dansker ville [View Full Entry]

FamilieFrey - Ronald Frey | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe | 0 Comment(s) | 0 Photo(s) | 0 Video(s) | [diary=317853] | 2008-08-30 10:58:13


Hoi allemaal, Inmiddels zitten we in Ulan Bator, de hoofdstad van Mongolie! Helaas geen foto's nog bij dit verslag, want het uploaden van de foto's werkt hier niet. Onze reis begon in een gezellige 3-persoonscoupe vanuit Amsterdam naar Moskou. Bij de grens met Wit-Rusland hadden we nog een hele happening, want daar ga je over op ander breedte spoor. We werden met wagon en al opgetakeld en daarna werden de onderstellen verwisseld. Erg grappig om te zien en ervaren! Na twee nachtjes kwamen we in de ochtend aan in Moskou. Het hostel zat in een appartementencomplex, wat half uit elkaar viel [View Full Entry]

afkeopreis - afke | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe | 6 Comment(s) | 7 Photo(s) | 0 Video(s) | [diary=315792] | 2008-08-25 15:06:49

eten in de trein
basiliek Moskou
rode plein at night

Hey guys Sorry - its been AGES since I've last written, entirely due to the complete lack of internet so far between Moscow and here. You don't know how happy it makes me to click on the 'siberia' region in Russia at the top of this posting. :) St Petersberg to Moscow - We started the journey with the lushest train that I've travelled in so far, counting both Western and Eastern Europe. Real sheets, blankets and a little vase of fresh flowers. Ahhhh! I read later that the same journey in 1978 took 8.5 hours, and ours took....8.25 hours, so [View Full Entry]

ktoverland - Katie Pearce | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe | 0 Comment(s) | 0 Photo(s) | 0 Video(s) | [diary=314495] | 2008-08-21 06:34:03


09/08/08 7.30am. I wake to see endless rolling silver birch and fir forests again. Grey skies. The lovely sound of the train and the constant gentle rocking movement. I immediately think of the sad woman in Yaroslavsky station last night. Kirov - 12.17pm 957km from Moscow. (Kirov, renamed in 1934 in honour of Communist Leader assassinated earlier in the same year. Sergie Kirov was at one time so close to Stalin that most people assumed that he would succeed him as Party General Secretary. But he subsequently broke away and it is more than likely that Stalin had a hand in [View Full Entry]

TraceyandChris - Tracey Doxey | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe | 1 Comment(s) | 21 Photo(s) | 0 Video(s) | [diary=312824] | 2008-08-16 16:53:34

Our Carriage attendant
Balezino Giraffe
The Shawl lady - Balyzino

This is a short film made by Chris for his dad. [View Full Entry]

TraceyandChris - Tracey Doxey | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe | 3 Comment(s) | 0 Photo(s) | 1 Video(s) | [diary=312838] | 2008-08-16 17:16:10



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