The bank of the River Volga.

Monday.

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March 20th 2006
Lyudmila Giorgevna taught us this morning. We went to a different room to watch the news for half an hour, then talked about our newspaper articles for the rest of the lesson. Karin and Linda are back from their trip to Lithuania. On the way the militsiya threw them out of the train in the middle of Belarus for not having the right type of visa. Not even Linda's 20 euro bribe saved them, they h ... read more

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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