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		<title>Getting through a Ukrainian birthday dinner</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Oleg, center, with a stuffed bear on his head. He made it his personal mission to fuck me up. And he succeeded. He also invited me to butcher a pig with him at his dacha. I&#8217;ve been hiding in my bedroom for about five minutes, standing over my bed with my head out the open [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What do you buy the Donetskian who has everything?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;A black pistol &#8211; there&#8217;s no better gift!&#8221; Eastern Ukraine has a reputation for being tough, hard-knuckled and &#8211; on occasion &#8211; violent. So what do you buy for someone who lives there on their birthday? A handgun, of course. The photo above, taken by my friend Alex while he was out and about, reads: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>To Odessa and beyond</title>
		<description><![CDATA[With the end of my Peace Corps service staring me in the face, I decided to do a bit of traveling in hopes of seeing a few more places in this country that I&#8217;ve come to care so deeply about. The fact that other PCVs wanted to do the same, and that the annual humor [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Speaking at Donetsk Press Club</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Three weekends ago I was invited by Vladimir Berezin, a local environmental journalist and editor of Konstantinovka&#8217;s Province Newspaper, to speak to other regional journalists about the importance of incorporating digital storytelling and social media into their work, as well as environmental journalism in America. The group of about 15, comprised of journalists from Konstantinovka, Kramatorsk, Donetsk, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://borderland-chronicles.com/speaking-at-donetsk-press-club</link>
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		<title>Pit No. 8</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The documentary film, &#8220;Шахта №8&#8243;, translated as &#8220;Pit No. 8&#8243;, released in 2011, provides insight into the harsh lives of people living in the Donbass region. If you speak Russian, watch this film. If you don&#8217;t speak Russian, watch parts of it to get an idea of what the Donbass region of Eastern Ukraine is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Coming to a close</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My first day at my site, Artemovsk, with Nikolai. This month marks two years in Ukraine. This I can hardly believe. I remember the morning I left like it was only yesterday. Filled with anxiety and excitement, I couldn&#8217;t sleep at all that night. Thoughts of my future life in Ukraine and what that would [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Our Ukrainian evolution</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Our self portraits from my girlfriend&#8217;s first visit to Ukraine, till her last. Ukrainians are known for their expressionless faces in photographs, hence our attempt to channel that. Some of us expats call this look the &#8220;stone face.&#8221; Artemovsk, Ukraine. October 2010. Kiev, Ukraine. November 2010. Kiev, Ukraine. October 2011. Kiev, Ukraine. March 2012.]]></description>
		<link>http://borderland-chronicles.com/our-ukrainian-evolution</link>
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		<title>Shout outs on the street</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Being a foreigner gets me a lot of shouts and hollers from people on the street, from people I know or who recognize me as well as from passers-by who might hear me speaking English to a friend or on the phone. Students of the school I work at, other kids and even grown men [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://borderland-chronicles.com/shout-outs-on-the-street</link>
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		<title>And the winner is&#8230; *shrug* Putin &#8211; again</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By now you know that Vladimir Putin has overwhelmingly won another term as President of Russia, with about 63 percent of the vote, setting the stage for what could be an anxiety-filled post-election clash with an opposition movement that&#8217;s been protesting against a third term for the controversial ruler since December. &#8220;We have gained a clean [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://borderland-chronicles.com/and-the-winner-is-shrug-putin-again</link>
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		<title>Every train ride, a roll of the dice</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The drunk deaf boy squirmed and moaned in his aisle-side bunk above the devoutly religious woman with the white head wrap, who was sleeping below. His three friends had literally thrown him up there just five minutes earlier, then they went to have a cigarette in the back of the wagon. Five young female students [...]]]></description>
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