This will be my last post before I head off to Germany on the third. There are not any pictures to show you all this time around as I have spent most of the past week conducting interviews for the stories I hope to write when I return.

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Well the last few days since I last wrote have been busy. I have shot three more events and taken a trip into the country.
On Friday I covered two events that were part of a larger protest being made by gay rights activists. The first part of the event was a picket at the Ministry […]

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Last night I got my first opportunity to cover a news event in a foriegn city. When Katia, one of the people helping me with interpretation, called the Youth Yabloko group to see if they were having any upcoming meetings they told her that there was a meeting on Wednesday night. I guess something got […]

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Ok here is the first batch of images. I tried to upload half of these yesterday but I ran out of minutes on my internet account. I found a wifi provider that has a decent signal here in the apartment. It was only $20US for 31 days of unlimited connection and unlimited data transfer. That […]

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So I made it safely to Moscow. Sergey met me at the airport and we had to take an hour and a half train ride to his house. It turns out the airport is on the opposite side of Moscow from Sergey. What fun. I still have not gotten to see Moscow because the subway […]

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Well the unthinkable has happened. I have started a “blog”. As many of you know I have often said that I didn’t see the usefulness of blogs for us ordinary folks. Im not an authority on anything and my opinion on any subject is no more valid or important than the next guy’s. The one […]

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