Has anyone got any bleach?

Ulan Ude

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April 6th 2006
On the train to Ulan Ude, our young Russian cabin mate takes one look at us before taking two bottles of six star brandy out of his bag. We hope he's going to share it with us, but instead he shouts "Wanka" and sets off down the corridor. We fall about laughing, but later find out that this is the name of one of his friends in another cabin who he has gone to drink with. Later he returns, a lit ... read more

Europe » Russia

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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