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	<title>The Trials and Tribulations of a Twentysomething Traveller</title>
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		<title>The Trials and Tribulations of a Twentysomething Traveller</title>
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		<title>Russian Recipe Reviews: Edition Two</title>
		<link>http://hpeden.wordpress.com/2009/11/14/russian-recipe-reviews-edition-two/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2009 21:37:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s been a couple of weeks now since I last commented on what I’ve been cooking. Today I’ll start with another traditional dish from Maslenitsa.
1- Pancakes/Blini (Блини)
Like in England on Shrove Tuesday, here in the week before lent many pancakes are cooked. The following recipe is another simple one from UofT’s Slavic Department.

1 litre of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hpeden.wordpress.com&blog=3464992&post=766&subd=hpeden&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Armenian Lentil Soup #1</media:title>
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		<title>Marveling at the Metro</title>
		<link>http://hpeden.wordpress.com/2009/11/09/marveling-at-the-metro/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 19:48:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>hpeden</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[To avoid the rather unpleasant weather outside this Sunday I explored some of Moscow’s inside venues. Namely the world famous architecture in the Moscow Metro. On line number 5 (circle line) there are some of the most beautiful metro stations you will ever hope to see.&#160; My personal recommendation, if you have about 45 minutes [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hpeden.wordpress.com&blog=3464992&post=755&subd=hpeden&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Courtyard of the Moscow City Historical Museum</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Andrei Sakharov Museum</media:title>
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		<title>Identity Issues</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 16:06:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>hpeden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[When have you lived somewhere? After one month? After six months? After you have a job? After you have citizenship? 
Every summer for the past three years I have been to Madrid at least four times. I’ve spent a lot of time in the center. I know where to go for cheap Chinese food, the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hpeden.wordpress.com&blog=3464992&post=732&subd=hpeden&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Translation: I ♥ Reutov</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Reutov&#39;s main symbol</media:title>
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		<title>Help! I need Housing!</title>
		<link>http://hpeden.wordpress.com/2009/11/05/help-i-need-housing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 20:10:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>hpeden</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After spending most of September couch-surfing at various locales I was very excited at the prospect of my own place in Reutov. However I wasn’t so crazy about the cost of my new place. Moscow has been able to claim that it is the most expensive city in the world for the past few years [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hpeden.wordpress.com&blog=3464992&post=720&subd=hpeden&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Old Style Apartments (foreground), New Style (background)</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">My Nice Modern Kitchen</media:title>
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		<title>Wintery Writer’s Walk</title>
		<link>http://hpeden.wordpress.com/2009/11/02/wintery-writers-walk/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 19:22:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sunday’s  expedition to the Moscow centre included visiting St Basil’s Cathedral, the State Historical Museum (SHM) and evening walk through literary Russia.
Both the St. Basil and the SHM open at 11:00 AM on Sundays. You can conveniently buy tickets for both at a discounted rate in the SHM.  (I was lucky to still have my [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hpeden.wordpress.com&blog=3464992&post=711&subd=hpeden&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Russian Recipe Reviews</title>
		<link>http://hpeden.wordpress.com/2009/10/30/russian-recipe-reviews/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 19:06:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160;&#160;&#160; 1- Olivier Salad (Салат «Оливье» )
This is probably one of the most traditional of the Russian mayonnaise-type salads. Usually a combination of boiled potatoes and veggies with some kind of meat. I had a recipe for a vegetarian version from the UofT’s Slavic Department’s 2007 Maslenitsa celebration. The recipe produced quite a large amount [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hpeden.wordpress.com&blog=3464992&post=700&subd=hpeden&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">October Outings 010</media:title>
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		<title>October Outing</title>
		<link>http://hpeden.wordpress.com/2009/10/29/october-outing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 22:04:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>hpeden</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On a chilly October morning I set out for my first solo trip to the centre of Moscow. It takes about 25 mins on the bus from Reutov to the Novogireevo metro station and then another 25 to the Teatralnaya station. The grandeur and cleanliness of the metro stations lived up to expectations – you [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hpeden.wordpress.com&blog=3464992&post=685&subd=hpeden&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">GUM</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Chekhov</media:title>
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		<title>Bemused by Bureaucracy</title>
		<link>http://hpeden.wordpress.com/2009/10/26/bemused-by-bureaucracy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 19:10:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>hpeden</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Having been in the country now for about a month, I thought I’d comment on the worst part of living abroad: bureaucracy. After coming to Spain several times I’m used to the fact that not everywhere is efficiency and rapidity so highly valued as it is in North America. In Spain quite often there is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hpeden.wordpress.com&blog=3464992&post=668&subd=hpeden&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sauntering in the Centre of Moscow</title>
		<link>http://hpeden.wordpress.com/2009/10/19/sauntering-in-the-centre-of-moscow/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 21:22:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>hpeden</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[   For my first taste of Russian sightseeing I had a bilingual (Russian-English) tour of the area around Red Square. One of the Russian English teachers took me to see the centre at night. She insisted I be in every photo. Red Square was as impressive as I expected, although St. Basil’s Cathedral turned out [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hpeden.wordpress.com&blog=3464992&post=660&subd=hpeden&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Me in the centre of Moscow</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Me in front of the Kremlin</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Me with Russia and the world</media:title>
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		<title>Reactions to Russia</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 21:20:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>hpeden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Moscow]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Working Abroad]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I’m finally here! After a couple of months of finagling with visa application I finally arrived Russia.&#160; I have been studying Russian language for the last four years and I’m finally making my first trip to Russia…initially it was very surreal. 
All the signs were in Cyrillic and nobody was speaking English. I had a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hpeden.wordpress.com&blog=3464992&post=651&subd=hpeden&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Flying into Moscow</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Reutov looking west</media:title>
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