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HOW WE MET THE LOCAL MAFIAS IN KAZAN

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September 17th 2007
We drove 30 kms. towards the border on a cool gloomy day, Got through the Russian side quite easily, we were hushed in this hangar building and got stamped in, it was a cold day so I wore my liner gloves when it was my turn to get stamped the immigration guy laughed at me for wearing gloves, I said it was cold, well they can handle cold better I am sure. Our day bags were run through the x-ray ma ... read more

Europe » Russia » Volga » Kazan

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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 Dynas... ... read more