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		<title>Ukrainian brides and the fabled stiliagi</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A &#8216;stiliaga&#8217; &#8211; the Soviet Union hipster of the 1940s and 50s. I came across two very interesting articles this week pertaining to elements of Ukraine&#8217;s past and present culture. The first, &#8220;A foreign affair: On the great Ukrainian bride hunt&#8220;, published in Harper&#8217;s Magazine, follows a man who goes undercover to learn more about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Too cool for school</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Too cool for school. I mean that quite literally. With the temperature hovering around -24 degrees Celsius (-10 degrees Fahrenheit) this morning, most schools cancelled lessons all together. My school, however, thought they&#8217;d give it a shot and see how many students would show up. In my first lesson of the day, usually a rowdy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Interesting fairytales</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Flora of Ukraine&#8221; by Interesni Kazki, The Wynwood Walls Project, Miami, 2011. While I&#8217;ve never considered myself to an expert on the subject of graffiti art, or even a huge fan of it for that matter, I&#8217;ve been fascinated with the Ukrainian graffiti art duo Interesni Kazki (Interesting Fairytales) since I stumbled upon their work on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Remnants of a Soviet past</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If there&#8217;s something Ukrainians born in the U.S.S.R. pride themselves on more than their mosaics, it&#8217;s their cosmonauts. So I wasn&#8217;t so shocked during a visit to Konstantinovka to find the sides of bloc apartments along aptly named Cosmonaut Blvd. adorned with mosaic images of Soviet cosmonauts, including the renowned Yury Gagarin &#8211; the first human [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Lada: The ultimate survival vehicle</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In Ukraine, sometimes arriving to your flat in one piece is the ultimate survival. I&#8217;ve dabbled in off-roading, tried my hand at cliff jumping and grew up attempting an array of precarious tricks behind a speed boat on multiple apparatuses. But none of these things have raised my anxiety level and forced me to clench [...]]]></description>
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		<title>From Stumptown to Nescafe</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Nescafe 3 in 1 TURBO, for when you need a little something extra. Before March of 2010 I&#8217;d never drunk instant coffee, never even had a taste. Sure, I&#8217;d had the cheap stuff. Folgers was a mainstay in my suburban childhood home. The garage was lined with the empty cans. My father used them to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>9 tips for traveling by train in Ukraine</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My uncle on a train from Kiev to Donetsk after our excursion of the Chernobyl exclusion zone in June 2011. Besides being an affordable and comfortable alternative to buses and planes, trains are a great way to travel in Ukraine. Routes traverse the country in all directions – and often. The landscapes passing outside the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://borderland-chronicles.com/9-tips-for-traveling-by-train-in-ukraine</link>
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		<title>The photographs of Arkady Shaykhet</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Crossing of the Dnieper. (Переправа через Днепр). Political commissar. Stalingrad. (Политрук. Сталинград.) Monument to the civilians killed by the Nazis. Kiev Region. (Памятник мирным жителям убитым фашистами. Киевская область.) The photographer, Arkady Shaykhet. Born September 9, 1898, in Nikolayev, Ukraine, Arkady Shaykhet grew up to be one of the most famous Soviet photojournalists and photographers [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://borderland-chronicles.com/the-photographs-of-arkady-shaykhet</link>
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		<title>Photo Essay: Beautiful rubble of rural Ukraine</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was recently contacted by Matador Network to put together a photo essay that represented the eastern Ukrainian region that I&#8217;ve called home for the past two years. Beautiful rubble of rural Ukraine was the result. And while you&#8217;ve seen many of the 20 photos here on The Borderland Chronicles, there might just be a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A story from Donetsk</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I finally got my hands on a copy of The Other Chelsea &#8211; A story from Donetsk, a documentary film by German director Jakob Preuss. Having lived in the Donbass region &#8211; where the film is set &#8211; for the past two years, I found it to be a very accurate and fair depiction of [...]]]></description>
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