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	<description>Berlin &#8594; bike &#8594; Saint Petersburg &#8594; ...</description>
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		<title>Obligatory Tourist Selfie</title>
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		<title>Putin-san</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Aug 2013 08:02:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Bandy, prehistoric hockey</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jul 2013 15:49:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here in Borovichi they have a professional Bandy team. Bandy, a prehistoric version of hockey which originated in Russia in the 1700s, looks like a mashup of soccer and field hockey on a giant ice surface with 10 players per side + a goaltender (without stick and defending a huge goal). Heading earns you a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Donations for the maintenance of bear Masha</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jul 2013 17:56:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bears abound in Yaroslavl. I suppose the apocryphal story of Yaroslavl the Wise killing a bear with his hands might have something to do with several of these examples (the somewhat unhappy Masha who lives in a cage by herself with a rubber tire on the grounds of the Spaso-Preobrazhensky Monastery and the full, legit [...]]]></description>
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		<title>St. John the Baptist Church, Yaroslavl</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jul 2013 12:30:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This famous church is featured on the Russian 1000 rouble note. However, it&#8217;s located in a fairly industrial zone of the city and despite info to the contrary was closed when I visited.]]></description>
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		<title>Saint Ipaty Monastery over the Volga</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Jul 2013 21:30:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[St Ipaty&#8217;s was the Romanov&#8217;s spiritual base in Kostroma.]]></description>
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		<title>Hedge Knights</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Stumbled on some medieval festivities at the Wooden Architecture Museum in Kostroma.]]></description>
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		<title>If you like it then you shoulda put a lock on it</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Jul 2013 12:00:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday I learned about the Russian wedding tradition where the couple attach a lock to a railing and throw the key into a river. Today spied several locks in Kostroma on the Volga.]]></description>
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		<title>Lounging along the Volga</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Jul 2013 12:00:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Spent the day wandering around the bank of the Volga. Met a few bunnies and some pigs. I can&#8217;t read the Russian menus but I have a feeling they made the list. Saw some huge ships, reinforcing the importance of the Volga for both shipping and tourism.]]></description>
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		<title>Arthur Pirozhkov, he’s just the star of erotic dreams</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jul 2013 17:16:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Discovered a most amazing video at dinner. Artur Pirozhkov is a character created by Ukrainian comedian Aleksandr Revva. I think this is what would happen if Danny McBride&#8217;s Kenny Powers made a music video. (The song is actually quite catchy compared to most antiseptic Russian pop and dated metal and what first caught my attention). [...]]]></description>
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