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<a href="http://c-schuler.livejournal.com/1505.html">Chris Schuler: Back in the USSR</a>

Friday 05 December 2008 14:52 GMT
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KALININGRAD, RUSSIA: It must have been the music in the little Ukrainian retaurant that made my dinner companion wax a little nostalgic. "I love these Ukrainian songs," she said. "I love the Ukrainian language. It's such a shame they had to make that Orange Revolution. They sold themselves to the Americans. These fucking Americans, they try to come between Slavonic peoples and drive them apart. At least it won't happen in Belarus. The President there is strong."

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