Reading About Russia (and other things)

Reading About Russia (and other things)

An excerpt from Victoria Lomasko’s book  In Tbilisi ‘”It’s forbidden to be sad in Georgia,” in n+1 magazine. Also Benjamin Cohen’s “Letter from Ukraine: Don’t Let Refugee History Repeat Itself,” in The Forward, January 31, 2017.

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Meanwhile, stateside: Aaron M. Renn’s “The Real State of America’s Inner Cities,” in NewGeography.com from February 1, 2017.

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And it was a rather London morning in Austin earlier:

#Morning #fog and streetlamp, #Austin

A photo posted by Christopher Landrum (@landrumc) on Feb 1, 2017 at 7:28am PST

Update: color photographs of the Soviet Union in the 1950s from On Wednesday, we wear red Tumblr: