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Transnistria: the Soviet country that doesn’t  exist

Quite some years ago I accidentally visited Transnistria. I honestly wasn’t planning on updating my frozen conflict bucket list, I just happened to need to go through the ‘country’  as

Moscow’s Red Square and beyond in  pictures

The many colours of the onion domed St. Basil’s Cathedral in the south; the Soviet warehouse of GUM on the eastern side; the body of the founder of the  Soviet

The Georgian Military Road: Soviet mosaic and majestic  mountains

WHAT: A road trip along The Georgian Military Road WHERE: The road runs 220 km from Tbilisi to Vladikavkaz, but most visitors only do the Georgian part – that  is