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		<title>Why Having a Host Family is Great</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2009 18:18:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Let me be clear, I live on my own by now. But a host family is a great resource (if I may treat them so instrumentally, for a moment) when you&#8217;re new to a city and, in general, a country. They correct your language, they criticize your imported social norms &#8212; which you can then [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=redinklings.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2427779&amp;post=129&amp;subd=redinklings&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Maslenitsa in Novgorod</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2009 20:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sledding is a traditional part of the Maslenitsa celebration, the Russian way of kicking off Lent. The week&#8217;s tradition also includes making a Maslenitsa figure out of straw and burning it to hasten the start of spring. I joined a folk singing and dancing group in Novgorod, following in the footsteps of the other St. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=redinklings.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2427779&amp;post=111&amp;subd=redinklings&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Posing as a Russian Polar Bear</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2009 14:16:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[polar bears]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[what's there to love in Russia]]></category>

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		<title>The Bird Feeder</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2009 17:38:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>V-Day + B-Day</title>
		<link>http://redinklings.wordpress.com/2009/02/20/v-day-b-day/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2009 09:14:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Valentine&#8217;s Day and Alex&#8217;s Birthday are only days apart, so he&#8217;s lucky I&#8217;m such a gift-giver &#8212; he got separate presents. The Russians I asked about Valentine&#8217;s Day agreed that it was an imported holiday, so they don&#8217;t celebrate it in a big way. Nonetheless, they echoed the common American complaint that giving flowers and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=redinklings.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2427779&amp;post=95&amp;subd=redinklings&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Lisa Gulya</media:title>
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		<title>Great Baikal Trail talk by Bella Gordon</title>
		<link>http://redinklings.wordpress.com/2009/02/10/great-baikal-trail-talk-by-bella-gordon/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2009 20:38:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As promised, audio from the Fulbright Mid-Year Seminar in Moscow. First, Bella Gordon, a Fulbright student researching environmental management at Lake Baikal in Russia. Bella spoke about the Great Baikal Trail, a non-profit organization that runs 10-day work camps for international volunteers, with work ranging from trail building to translating. You can download her talk [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=redinklings.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2427779&amp;post=89&amp;subd=redinklings&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Russian Massage (Minus the Birch Branches)</title>
		<link>http://redinklings.wordpress.com/2009/01/27/russian-massage-without-the-birch-branches/</link>
		<comments>http://redinklings.wordpress.com/2009/01/27/russian-massage-without-the-birch-branches/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jan 2009 17:18:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I interviewed a young mom last week for my research, and she mentioned getting a massage as something she did when she found time for herself. I couldn&#8217;t resist finding out for myself what relaxations Novgorod had to offer, with the weather slushy and the usual entertainment options&#8211;smoky dance halls filled with half-dressed teenagers or [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=redinklings.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2427779&amp;post=84&amp;subd=redinklings&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Train Time</title>
		<link>http://redinklings.wordpress.com/2009/01/27/train-time/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jan 2009 16:56:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>redinklings</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m in Moscow for the mid-year Fulbright seminar, which meant an overnight train ride from Moscow. Usually I ride platzcart, 3rd class. The cars are completely undivided, but the tickets are cheap. This time I was treated to a luxurious 4-person coupe &#8212; me and three Russian men. I must say, my quickly pessimistic mind [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=redinklings.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2427779&amp;post=83&amp;subd=redinklings&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Lisa Gulya</media:title>
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		<title>Obama Repealing the Global Gag Rule: The Russian Media Spin</title>
		<link>http://redinklings.wordpress.com/2009/01/25/obama-repealing-the-global-gag-rule-the-russian-media-spin/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Jan 2009 14:51:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Russian media is neither independent nor objective. I know that, even though the facts of ever-erupting political disputes between Russia and its neighbors  lie somewhere between the anti-Western views of Russia&#8217;s media and the more muted &#8220;Russia&#8217;s always to blame&#8221; undercurrent in American media. But today&#8217;s NTV report on Obama&#8217;s repeal of the global gag [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=redinklings.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2427779&amp;post=80&amp;subd=redinklings&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Fargo through the eyes of a Russian</title>
		<link>http://redinklings.wordpress.com/2009/01/24/fargo-through-the-eyes-of-a-russian/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Jan 2009 11:27:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>redinklings</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[American through a Russian's eyes]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Novgorodians are enamored with the idea of &#8220;Novgorod through the eyes of a foreigner.&#8221; It was the theme of my talk at a cultural evening two years ago, when I was studying Russian in Novgorod State University&#8217;s (NovGU) prepatory department. Then it was the theme of a talk I gave at a Novgorod history conference [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=redinklings.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2427779&amp;post=42&amp;subd=redinklings&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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