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		<title>Four months later</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Four months, five hostels, six countries, seven trains, and 11 flights later &#8211; I&#8217;m home!  It&#8217;s great to be back, and of course a little strange to understand everything on the streets and sleep in a bed.
That&#8217;s probably it for this travel blog, even though I was advised to continue writing in order to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://alecananian.com/blog/2010/05/four-months-later/</link>
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		<title>Hey Russia, it&#8217;s been real</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today was our last day of classes and tomorrow afternoon I&#8217;m flying out of Russia!  I&#8217;m heading to Budapest, Hungary and spending three nights there, then flying to Los Angeles on May 25.   I&#8217;ve come up with a list of things, with the help of some friends, that I&#8217;ll be missing about [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://alecananian.com/blog/2010/05/hey-russia-its-been-real/</link>
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		<title>Moskva: Vtoroya glava</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(Moscow: The Second Chapter) This past weekend was my final weekend in Russia, and I decided I didn&#8217;t want to spend it wondering aroudn Petersburg as usual.  So, I went to Moscow!  Nobody really wanted to join so I was having second thoughts about going, but in the end I didn&#8217;t let it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://alecananian.com/blog/2010/05/moskva-vtoroya-glava/</link>
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		<title>S dnyom pobedy!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Happy Victory Day!&#8221;  This weekend Russia celebrated one of its biggest holidays &#8211; Victory Day, May 9, the commemoration of the end of World War II on the Eastern Front (May 9, 1945) and victory for the Soviet Union.  For weeks the city had been slowly transforming into a celebration on the streets [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://alecananian.com/blog/2010/05/s-dnyom-pobedy/</link>
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		<title>One week, three centuries</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last week for me spanned about 300 years of Russianness, which I&#8217;ll retell in historically chronological order instead of the order in which they happened, just for kicks.
This weekend I had the urge to leave Petersburg &#8211; I didn&#8217;t really care where to, I just didn&#8217;t want to spend another weekend roaming around the same [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://alecananian.com/blog/2010/04/one-week-three-centuries/</link>
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		<title>Before and after</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today I unintentionally took a photo that looks a lot like one I took in my first week in St. Petersburg, and it turned out to be a good before-and-after shot showing how much two months has changed the city:



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		<link>http://alecananian.com/blog/2010/04/before-and-after/</link>
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		<title>It&#8217;s beginning to look a lot like spring&#8230;</title>
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So remember how I mentioned that St. Petersburg magically changed sometime during my spring break?  Well, it has surprisingly kept up that sort of weather, and I&#8217;m beginning to understand how living in this city can be tolerable.

Never have I considered 30 degrees to be warm and 50 to be hot, but I guess [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://alecananian.com/blog/2010/04/its-beginning-to-look-a-lot-like-spring/</link>
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		<title>Travel Week adventures</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m finally back in St. Petersburg, and it&#8217;s definitely a good feeling to be back.  It&#8217;s just nice to be in a familiar area after about a week outside my &#8220;comfort zone&#8221; (I use this term loosely because Petersburg can hardly be considered inside any comfort zone).  I&#8217;ve written a lot about my [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://alecananian.com/blog/2010/04/travel-week-adventures/</link>
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		<title>Kanikuly!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Holidays!&#8221;  Today was our last day of classes before &#8220;spring break&#8221; (the word spring is used loosely in this country).  Tonight I&#8217;m heading to Moscow on an overnight train.  Then on Sunday I&#8217;m flying out of Moscow to Warsaw, Poland with a couple friends, and from there we&#8217;ll be visiting Lithuania, Latvia, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://alecananian.com/blog/2010/03/kanikuly/</link>
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		<title>&#8220;Kakoy kashmar!&#8221;</title>
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&#8220;What a nightmare!&#8221;  That&#8217;s what you instinctively say when you exit your apartment and walk on the streets of Petersburg in this transition between winter and spring.  All the snow that collected over the past couple months has to melt somewhere, and all the icicles that formed on rooftops have to drip and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://alecananian.com/blog/2010/03/kakoy-kashmar/</link>
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