Eis!

Shrink-wrapped

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September 4th 2010
I've got a late flight from Kaliningrad to Minsk on Belavia, the Belarusian national airline. Check-out time at my hotel is noon; I've arranged to leave my suitcase, but I need to find something to do with myself from noon until my ride at 18:00. It's raining again. Alexandr has urged me to tour the блиндаж (Nazi bunker), and I've gotten good instructions about how to find it, so I have ... 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