Our view for another hour

I HAVE CONFIDENCE IN ... oh help

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August 31st 2010
"What do you mean, the train takes six hours? It's only 150 km; that's not more than three!" - a Polish person Yeah, about that. The border crossing between Poland and Russia is not part of the EU's Schengen Area, so getting into Russia is almost as time-consuming, numbingly bureaucratic, and infuriating as getting in ... 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