A snowmobile journey across the Norwegian island of Svalbard leads a traveller to the Arctic mining town of Barentsburg, where she avoids polar bears and meets the local Russian population …
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In 2002, after leaving a university job in New Zealand and moving to Moscow, John Dolan invented the pseudonym Gary Brecher, a character he imagined as a smart, unhappy data-entry …
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A young man travels to a small outpost in Siberia to seek wisdom from a Russian Orthodox priest living as a hermit. It’s 10 a.m., and Yeniseysk Airport airport is …
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An American couple travels to Russia with the goal of adopting a child. But first, they will have to survive a series of tests at a Moscow medical clinic. … …
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A traveler witnesses the final days of communism in Russia in the third of three finalist stories selected for our 2020 Chance Encounters travel writing competition. “Here we have the …
